Principal Cloud & Infrastructure Engineer

We are looking for an experienced and highly skilled Principal Cloud & Infrastructure Engineer to lead the design, deployment, automation, and management of enterprise-scale Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) environments, including sovereign cloud and Cloud@Customer platforms. The candidate will play a critical role in cloud transformation, infrastructure automation, AI/GPU platform enablement, disaster recovery planning, and secure cloud operations for mission-critical enterprise and government environments.

Required Skills & Expertise

• Strong hands-on experience in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) administration and architecture.
• Deep expertise in OCI networking, VCN design, IAM, routing, security lists, firewalls, and cloud security best practices.
• Extensive experience with Oracle Cloud@Customer (OC@C) infrastructure deployment and support.
• Strong knowledge of Oracle Exadata, ZFS Storage Appliance, Oracle Linux, OVS, and KVM virtualization technologies.
• Expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation using Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, and OCI Resource Manager.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes/OKE, Docker, Podman, and container orchestration platforms.
• Experience managing AI/GPU infrastructure and OCI Generative AI services.
• Strong understanding of disaster recovery, business continuity, and sovereign cloud compliance requirements.
• Experience with monitoring, observability, and incident management tools such as Grafana, Oracle EM/OEM, Jira, and ITSM platforms.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and cloud-native infrastructure operations.
• Excellent troubleshooting, stakeholder communication, and documentation skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related field.
• OCI Professional or Architect certifications preferred.
• Experience supporting banking, financial services, government, or highly regulated enterprise environments.
• Exposure to sovereign cloud architecture, security, and compliance frameworks.
• Experience leading enterprise cloud transformation or infrastructure modernization projects.

Experience Required

• 8+ years of experience in Cloud Infrastructure, Cloud Engineering, Platform Engineering, or OCI-related roles.
• Proven experience handling large-scale enterprise or mission-critical cloud environments.