Staff IT Cloud Engineer

Staff Oracle Cloud Architect

Qualcomm IT is seeking a Staff Oracle Cloud Architect to establish and own our Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) practice. You will serve as the founding technical authority for OCI at Qualcomm — defining the platform strategy, architecture standards, and operational model that will support enterprise workloads spanning compute, database, analytics, AI/ML, and hybrid connectivity. This is a high-impact, high-autonomy role for an architect who brings deep OCI expertise, a service-ecosystem view of cloud architecture, and the organizational credibility to build alignment across IT, security, and business stakeholders without direct authority.

This role requires full-time onsite work in San Diego, CA (5 days per week).

**This position is not eligible for Qualcomm immigration sponsorship.**

Key Responsibilities

• Define and own the OCI platform strategy and multi-year roadmap including tenancy architecture, compartment hierarchy, landing zone design, and multi-environment governance patterns that scale across teams and workloads
• Architect enterprise OCI networking including VCN design, DRG topology, FastConnect/VPN hybrid connectivity, and zero-trust segmentation patterns that satisfy Qualcomm security requirements
• Own IAM strategy including identity domains, policy design, dynamic groups, and enterprise identity federation; define encryption, Security Zone, Cloud Guard, and Vault standards as the platform security baseline
• Architect OCI database solutions — Autonomous Database (ATP/ADW), Exadata Cloud Service, Base Database Service — with appropriate HA/DR patterns; lead workload placement decisions across compute, OKE, and managed services for both modern and legacy application profiles
• Own the Terraform-on-OCI platform strategy including module design, state management, and multi-environment IaC governance; establish reference implementations and guardrails that enable distributed teams to provision OCI resources consistently and safely at scale
• Establish CI/CD and GitOps operating models for OCI workload delivery using GitHub Actions, OCI DevOps service, or equivalent pipelines; define deployment guardrails, OCIR image registry standards, and auditable delivery patterns
• Drive observability, FinOps, and SLO standards across OCI tenancies; own platform reliability, cost optimization, tagging governance, and budget alerting practices that produce measurable outcomes
• Design integration architecture between OCI-hosted workloads and enterprise systems using Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC), REST/SOAP APIs, and middleware platforms; support Oracle Fusion and ERP workload landing zones where applicable
• Lead structured build vs. buy assessments; stay current on Oracle's evolving service portfolio, CNCF landscape, and multicloud developments, and translate findings into actionable platform strategy
• Communicate platform strategy, investment rationale, and operational health to senior IT leadership; represent OCI architecture in cross-organizational forums; mentor engineers and contribute to hiring bar standards as the practice scales

Minimum Qualifications

• 10+ years of IT-related experience with a bachelor's degree in computer science, applied mathematics, or engineering — OR 14+ years without — with clear progression from technical execution to organizational technical leadership
• 5+ years of hands-on OCI experience at enterprise scale; deep expertise across tenancy architecture, VCN/networking, IAM, compute, storage, and database services required
• Advanced Terraform expertise including module strategy, state management, and multi-environment IaC governance in OCI or comparable cloud environments
• Strong CI/CD fundamentals — GitHub Actions or equivalent — with experience building pipelines that integrate build, test, security scanning, and OCI service deployment
• Solid OCI networking fundamentals including VCN design, DRG, FastConnect, and hybrid connectivity patterns in complex enterprise environments
• Experience with OCI database services and HA/DR architecture patterns including Autonomous Database and Data Guard
• Proven track record driving cross-organizational technical strategy and influencing senior stakeholders without direct authority
• Clear written and verbal communication skills across both engineering and executive audiences

Preferred Qualifications

• OCI certifications: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Architect Professional and/or OCI Multicloud Architect Professional (1Z0-997 / 1Z0-1151)
• Experience with Exadata Cloud Service, Autonomous Data Warehouse, and AI/ML workloads on OCI Data Science or OCI Generative AI service
• Familiarity with Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes (OKE) and cloud-native workload deployment patterns on OCI
• Experience with Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) or equivalent middleware integration platforms
• Exposure to multicloud architecture patterns spanning OCI and AWS or Azure, including Oracle View email address on click.appcast.io
• Demonstrated success building self-service platform capabilities and communities of practice that raise engineering capability at enterprise scale

Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits :

$129,600.00 - $194,400.00

The above pay scale reflects the broad, minimum to maximum, pay scale for this job code for the location for which it has been posted. Even more importantly, please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Qualcomm. We also offer a competitive annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants (employees on sales-incentive plans are not eligible for our annual bonus). In addition, our highly competitive benefits package is designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that Qualcomm has to offer – and you can review more details about our US benefits at this link.