OCI Architect

Role Description

Centroid is Oracle Corporation's top Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) partner in North America, delivering architecture, implementation and modernization initiatives in OCI for our customers. Our architects work directly alongside Centroid’s and client teams to design, migrate, and modernize mission-critical workloads - Oracle Databases, EBS, PeopleSoft, and next-generation AI/Data, Agentic AI, OCI genAI Platform solutions on OCI.

This is a senior, hands-on technical role. You will serve as the primary OCI architect on client engagements:

• Owning solution design end-to-end
• Guiding technical decisions
• Delivering production-grade implementations

No people management responsibilities.

As OCI Architect, you will be engaging with various customers in their cloud enablement initiatives. The candidate will be involved in:

• Design and execution of cloud migration strategy
• Automating existing cloud workloads in cloud
• Providing services to port existing workloads to leverage cloud benefits

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in customer-facing infrastructure or cloud architecture roles
• 5+ years of hands-on OCI design and implementation experience
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent field - or equivalent professional experience
• 10+ years total technical experience; 5+ years OCI-specific hands-on delivery

Requirements

• Architect end-to-end OCI solutions for customer engagements spanning landing zone design, network topology, identity, compute, storage, and database tiers
• Lead Oracle Database workload migrations to OCI, including Exadata Cloud Service, Autonomous Database (ADB), and Base Database Service, with a focus on performance, HA, and DR
• Design and execute Oracle Applications migrations (EBS, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards) to OCI, including lift-and-shift and modernization patterns
• Architect and deploy AI/Data Platform (AIDP) workloads leveraging OCI GenAI Service, OCI AI Agents, OCI Data Science, and Oracle Database 23ai Vector Search
• Develop and present technical architectures, reference designs, and migration runbooks for client pre-sales and delivery engagements
• Build and maintain OCI landing zones using Terraform and OCI Resource Manager, aligned to Oracle's CIS Foundations Benchmark
• Collaborate with Oracle technical teams (STCs, Cloud Engineers) on joint client engagements; serve as the technical point of escalation for Centroid
• Define standards, reusable patterns, and architectural guardrails for Centroid's OCI delivery practice

Benefits

• 100% Remote
• Full Time employee, CTH, or Contract

What Sets This Role Apart

You will work on OCI exclusively with the ability to learn and engage with emerging technologies like multi-cloud architecture, Agentic AI, and Generative AI. Centroid's clients engage us because of deep Oracle expertise; you will architect solutions that Oracle's own SCs reference, participate in Oracle partner programs, and shape how enterprise customers realize value from OCI's most advanced capabilities. If you are an OCI practitioner who wants to do the most technically demanding Oracle Cloud work available, this role is built for you.