Senior Oracle Cloud Engineer (OCI) - DoD Mission Critical

Aether Aerospace; Lincoln (MA); Hybrid; USD 116,000 - 142,000; Full time

Job summary

Aether Aerospace, a Defense Technology platform, seeks a Cloud Engineer to design, implement, and optimize secure Oracle Cloud Infrastructure environments for the Cloud One Next program. The role requires clear DoD experience and strong IaC skills. Hybrid work location at Hanscom AFB/Boston, MA with a salary up to $129,000.

Responsibilities include engineering OCI networking, IAM, security, automation, CI/CD, and collaboration with government stakeholders to meet mission requirements.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience designing, implementing, administering, or supporting enterprise cloud environments.
• Experience with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure services and technologies.
• Experience with cloud networking, including virtual networks, subnets, routing, DNS, gateways, firewalls, load balancing, and secure connectivity.
• Experience with cloud identity and access management and role-based access controls.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform.
• Experience supporting Linux and/or Windows systems in cloud environments.
• Experience with cloud monitoring, logging, auditing, troubleshooting, and performance management.
• Experience implementing security configurations and controls within enterprise cloud environments.
• Knowledge of DevSecOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, automation, and modern cloud deployment methodologies.
• Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to communicate technical information with engineering teams, leadership, and Government stakeholders.
• DoD 8570 / 8140 IAT Level II certification
• At least one cloud certification

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, configure, maintain, and troubleshoot OCI environments supporting workloads.
• Engineer OCI compute, networking, storage, load balancing, DNS, routing, and secure connectivity.
• Configure and manage OCI Virtual Cloud Networks, subnets, route tables, gateways, security lists, and NSGs.
• Implement and maintain OCI IAM, including users, groups, policies, compartments, roles, and least-privilege access controls.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform and automation tools.
• Automate cloud provisioning, configuration, deployment, monitoring, and lifecycle management.
• Support DevSecOps teams with cloud platform integration, CI/CD, containers, and automated deployment.
• Implement and maintain cloud security configurations per DoD cybersecurity requirements.
• Work with cybersecurity to identify, assess, and remediate vulnerabilities and config findings.
• Configure and support cloud logging, monitoring, alerting, auditing, metrics, and performance.
• Monitor infrastructure performance, capacity, availability, and health.
• Design and support resilient cloud environments with backup, DR, and high availability.
• Support cloud migration, modernization, onboarding, and platform integration activities.
• Troubleshoot complex issues and integrate OCI with other environments.

Skills

Cloud engineering

DevSecOps

Troubleshooting

Communication

Mentoring

DoD compliance

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Master's degree

Tools

Terraform

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Kubernetes

Python

PowerShell

Bash

Ansible

Job description

Aether Aerospace, a Defense Technology platform, seeks a Cloud Engineer to design, implement, and optimize secure Oracle Cloud Infrastructure environments for the Cloud One Next program. The role requires clear DoD experience and strong IaC skills. Hybrid work location at Hanscom AFB/Boston, MA with a salary up to $129,000.

Responsibilities include engineering OCI networking, IAM, security, automation, CI/CD, and collaboration with government stakeholders to meet mission requirements.