Oracle Cloud Migration SME/PM

General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT); Fairfax (VA); On-site; USD 162,000 - 219,000; Full time

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AI career tool

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Comprehensive benefits and 401K

Job summary

General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) is seeking an Oracle Migration SME to lead a complex Azure-to-OCI migration. The role involves end-to-end planning, governance and execution across IT, security, networking and operations teams.

The Senior Project Manager/ Technical SME will align with cloud architects, Oracle, Microsoft and partners to deliver a detailed roadmap while minimizing business disruption and risk.

Qualifications

• Experience leading Azure-to-OCI or similar cloud migrations.
• Experience with OCI services, migration methodologies and cloud architecture.
• Strong SDLC knowledge and familiarity with regulated enterprise environments.

Responsibilities

• Develop phased migration plan with timelines, risk mitigation and rollback procedures.
• Oversee data transfer, app establishment and system integration in the new environment.
• Configure and provision target OCI environment with security benchmarks and guardrails.
• Decommission legacy cloud environment to prevent data leaks.
• Evaluate post-migration validation, testing and performance tuning of cloud features.
• Create knowledge transfer and validation documentation for cloud configurations.

Skills

Cloud Architectures

End-to-End Testing

Oracle Cloud

Oracle Database

Project Management

Education

BA/BS in IT or related field

Tools

OCI

ServiceNow

Job description

Req ID: RQ228897

Type of Requisition: Regular

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None

Public Trust/Other Required: NACI (T1)

Job Family: IT Infrastructure and Operations

Skills: Cloud Architectures,End-to-End Testing,Oracle Cloud,Oracle Database,Project Management

Certifications: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) 2025 Migration Architect Certified Professional | Oracle - Oracle, Project Management Professional (PMP) | Project Management Institute (PMI) - Project Management Institute (PMI)

Experience: 10 + years of related experience

US Citizenship Required: Yes

Job Description

We are GDIT. The people who support and secure some of the country's most complex government, defense, and intelligence projects.

GDIT is seeking an experienced Oracle Migration SME to lead a complex enterprise cloud migration from Microsoft Azure to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).

This individual will be accountable for the end-to-end planning, coordination, governance, and execution of the migration, working across infrastructure, application, database, security, networking, architecture, operations, and business teams.

The Senior Project Manager/ Technical SME will partner closely with technical leadership, application owners, cloud architects, Oracle, Microsoft, implementation partners, and business stakeholders to develop and execute the migration roadmap while minimizing business disruption and managing technical and operational risk.

The successful candidate will have demonstrated experience managing large-scale cloud transformation programs involving application analysis, infrastructure dependencies, vendors, and business stakeholders for enterprise business system portfolio. Strong project governance, dependency management, executive communication, and migration/cutover experience are essential.

Duties and Responsibilities

The candidate will be expected to provide the following technical support as outlined below:

• Collaborating with the system federal and contractor PMs to develop a detailed phased migration plan, including timelines, risk mitigation strategies, and rollback procedures, to ensure secure and efficient migration with minimal disruption to operations.
• Providing active oversight, specifically monitoring migration activities, including data transfer, application establishment, and system integration to track how interdependent systems are managed in the new environment.
• Overseeing the configuration and provisioning of the target cloud environment in accordance with agency security and compliance requirements ensuring necessary security benchmarks and guardrails are established while maintaining data integrity and availability throughout the migration process.
• Achieving secure decommissioning through the end of the migration lifecycle by decommissioning the legacy cloud environment preventing data leaks from orphaned legacy systems.
• Managing the performance of post-migration validation, testing, and performance tuning. The SME shall evaluate whether cloud-native features (such as auto-scaling, managed databases, or serverless components) are performing efficiently.
• Creating knowledge transfer documentation of the transition process including validation and documentation of cloud-native configurations

Required Qualifications, Experience, and Competencies

• Extensive experience and knowledge with Azure and Oracle cloud providers.
• Direct experience leading an Azure-to-OCI migration or comparable hyperscaler-to-hyperscaler cloud migration.
• Experience with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) services, migration methodologies, and cloud architecture.
• Experience with Oracle technology and application platforms – Oracle Fusion - Financials, Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) and other Oracle databases/Exadata.
• Experience and knowledge in principles and practices of software development lifecycle (SDLC).
• Familiar with Microsoft .Net applications.
• Experience working with MySQL database.
• Experience with Extract/Transform/Load (ETL).
• Excellent written and verbal skills.
• Ability to provide guidance to a small team and to integrate as part of a larger team.
• Ability to analyze complex data and present findings in a clear and easily understandable manner.
• Ability to present recommendations for consideration and influence as needed.
• Demonstrated experience working in a load-balanced environment
• Understanding of IT practices, service management, governance frameworks, and industry standards (i.e., ITIL, ITSM, COBIT, ISO).
• Working knowledge of IT tracking tools, preferably ServiceNow.

Required Certifications

The candidate must possess the following current certifications:

• OCI Architect Professional
• PMP

Education and Experience Requirements

• BA/BS with 14+ years of directly related IT experience
• Experience managing migrations involving enterprise ERP, financial, supply-chain, customer-facing, or other business-critical systems.
• Understanding of cloud networking, identity and access management, security, observability, backup, disaster recovery, and high-availability concepts.
• Experience with cloud financial management and FinOps practices.
• PMP, PgMP, PMI-ACP, SAFe, Scrum, ITIL, Azure, or OCI certification.
• Experience working within regulated or highly controlled enterprise environments.

GDIT IS YOUR PLACE

At GDIT, the mission is our purpose, and our people are at the center of everything we do.

• Growth: AI-powered career tool that identifies career steps and learning opportunities
• Support: An internal mobility team focused on helping you achieve your career goals
• Rewards: Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match, and competitive pay and paid time off
• Flexibility: Full-flex work week to own your priorities at work and at home
• Community: Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace

OWN YOUR OPPORTUNITY

Explore an enterprise IT career at GDIT and you’ll find endless opportunities to grow alongside colleagues who share your desire to drive operations forward.

The likely salary range for this position is $161,500 - $218,500. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Total Rewards at GDIT

Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year. Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee’s date of hire. The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

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About Our Work

We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers technology solutions and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 26,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across 50+ countries worldwide, offering leading mission-ready capabilities in AI, cloud, cyber and software development.

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