Senior OCI Cloud Operations Engineer (Rockville)

Position Overview

This position owns the day-to-day operation, security, performance, compliance, and continuous improvement of a mission-critical Traffic Safety as a Service (TSaaS) platform running in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. The emphasis is on operational excellence, Oracle cloud engineering, database administration, automation, customer support, and dependable managed services rather than formal Site Reliability Engineering responsibilities.

What You'll Own

• OCI production platform operations and lifecycle management.
• Oracle Autonomous Database administration, tuning, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery.
• OCI networking, compute, storage, IAM, Vault, WAF, DNS, certificates, monitoring, logging, and load balancing.
• Production changes alongside DevOps and Development.
• Runbooks, operational documentation, DR plans, and platform standards.
• Customer implementations, audits, production cutovers, and major operational events.

Key Responsibilities

• Operate highly available OCI environments meeting contractual SLAs.
• Design and improve OCI infrastructure using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code.
• Automate provisioning, maintenance, reporting, backups, patching, and operational workflows.
• Administer Oracle databases including Data Guard, RMAN, performance tuning, and recovery testing.
• Support CJIS, Nlets, and SOC 2 aligned operational controls and audit readiness.
• Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and operational improvements.
• Collaborate with Product Management, Research & Development, DevOps, and Operations.
• Continuously simplify operations and reduce manual effort through automation.

Technical Environment

• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Government Cloud
• Oracle Autonomous Database
• Terraform and OCI Resource Manager
• OKE (shared ownership with DevOps)
• Python, PowerShell, Bash, Git, OCI CLI
• CJIS-aligned managed services supporting public safety agencies

Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years in DBA/cloud roles operating Oracle databases in production; strong SQL and performance tuning expertise.
• Hands-on with OCI core services, Autonomous DB, Data Guard, RMAN, and GoldenGate; proficiency with Terraform, Linux, Git, and scripting (Python/Bash/PowerShell).
• Demonstrated experience implementing HA/DR, backup/restore, and security controls for regulated/PII data.
• Clear documentation and stakeholder communication; comfortable leading incident response and postmortems.
• Willing to work in all weather conditions.
• Willing to travel within the local region.

Preferred Qualifications

• Oracle certifications (OCI Architect/Operations, Autonomous DB, GoldenGate) and Exadata experience.
• Kubernetes/OKE, Redis, TimesTen, or lakehouse patterns (Object Storage + Spark/Trino).
• Public-sector or high-reliability environments.

Benefits

• Health, Dental, and Vision coverage - company pays 90%
• Retirement Plan - Simple IRA and Roth IRA with competitive options
• Short-Term Disability
• Paid Vacation and Sick Days

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VITRONIC Machine Vision Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.