Senior Cloud Architect – Forward Deployed Engineer (OCI)

Oracle; Saint Louis (MI); Hybrid; USD 119,000 - 194,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental & vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Parental leave

Equity opportunity

Job summary

Oracle is seeking a Principal/Master Principal Cloud Architect-Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) for a hybrid role serving a U.S. Intelligence Community customer in a full-time capacity.

You will own technical success from architecture to production deployment, embedding with a dedicated customer and ensuring secure, scalable cloud operations. You will lead technical delivery, drive adoption, and shape future directions across Oracle products while maintaining TS/SCI with Poly eligibility.

Qualifications

• Experience supporting or working within the U.S. Intelligence Community.
• Must possess or have the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI with Poly.
• Strong hands-on cloud engineering and infrastructure experience.
• Experience deploying and operating solutions inside customer environments.
• Deep knowledge of cloud architecture, automation, and platform operations.
• Experience designing secure, highly available, scalable environments.
• Infrastructure-as-Code expertise using Terraform, OCI Resource Manager, Ansible, or similar technologies.
• Scripting and automation experience using Python, Shell, or comparable languages.

Responsibilities

• Embed full-time with a dedicated Intelligence Community customer.
• Architect and deploy OCI-based solutions directly within customer environments.
• Transform complex mission requirements into scalable cloud architectures.
• Build and configure infrastructure across OCI IaaS and PaaS services.
• Design secure, resilient, production-grade environments.
• Implement Infrastructure-as-Code and automation frameworks.
• Configure networking, identity, security, observability, databases, storage, and container platforms.
• Harden pilot deployments into operational production systems.
• Lead troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and performance optimization efforts.
• Partner closely with customer operators, engineers, and leadership teams.
• Drive adoption, knowledge transfer, and long-term customer success.
• Capture field learnings and influence future product and engineering direction across Oracle.

Skills

Cloud engineering

Infrastructure automation

Terraform

OCI

Python

Security compliance

On-site with customers

TS/SCI with Poly

Tools

Terraform

OCI Resource Manager

Ansible

Python

Shell

Job description

Oracle is seeking a Principal/Master Principal Cloud Architect-Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) for a hybrid role serving a U.S. Intelligence Community customer in a full-time capacity.

You will own technical success from architecture to production deployment, embedding with a dedicated customer and ensuring secure, scalable cloud operations. You will lead technical delivery, drive adoption, and shape future directions across Oracle products while maintaining TS/SCI with Poly eligibility.