Cloud architect

Job Description

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is seeking a highly skilled Consulting Member of Technical Staff (MTS) to drive the technical execution of OCI’s most strategic partnerships. In this role, you will serve as the technical authority and integration lead, responsible for architecting, implementing, and validating joint solutions that connect partner technologies with OCI’s cloud services. You will collaborate closely with Product Managers, Program Managers, and partner engineering teams to translate business agreements into scalable, production-ready architectures. This position requires deep technical expertise across cloud infrastructure, APIs, networking, and security, as well as strong communication skills to represent OCI in high-visibility partner and customer engagements. The ideal candidate is hands-on, systems-minded, and thrives at the intersection of technology integration, platform enablement, and solution delivery within complex multi-party environments.

Responsibilities

Primary Job Duties

• Serve as the technical lead and architect for partner integrations across compute, networking, storage, and AI/ML services.
• Design and implement reference architectures, integration patterns, and deployment blueprints that operationalize partner offerings on OCI.
• Conduct technical due diligence on potential partners—assessing scalability, security, and interoperability with OCI’s infrastructure.
• Collaborate with internal OCI engineering teams to develop APIs, SDKs, and automation frameworks that streamline partner onboarding.
• Lead proof-of-concepts (POCs) and validation exercises to ensure integration quality, performance, and customer readiness.
• Provide hands-on support during onboarding, including environment setup, connectivity, IAM configuration, and observability integration.
• Author technical documentation, deployment guides, and enablement materials for internal teams and joint go-to-market initiatives.
• Act as the technical liaison in partner and customer meetings, effectively communicating OCI architecture principles and design tradeoffs.
• Work closely with Product Management to influence OCI’s roadmap based on partner integration feedback and emerging customer needs.
• Support sales and field enablement through technical deep dives, demos, and joint solution briefings with partners.

Minimum Qualifications

• 6-10+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure engineering, partner integration, or solution architecture within a major cloud provider or enterprise platform company.
• Deep technical expertise in OCI, AWS, Azure, or GCP environments, with hands-on experience in compute, networking, storage, and IAM.
• Strong proficiency with Terraform, Kubernetes, RESTful APIs, SDKs, and automation scripting (Python, Bash, or Go).
• Proven ability to architect and deploy large-scale distributed systems integrating third-party or partner technologies.
• Solid understanding of network topologies, load balancing, encryption, identity federation, and multi-tenant architectures.
• Experience conducting technical due diligence, scalability assessments, and system integration reviews.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present to both engineering and executive audiences.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Preferred: experience in joint solution development, ISV/OEM integrations, or multi-cloud interoperability projects.

Qualifications

Disclaimer:

Certain US customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization and occupational health mandates.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $96,800 - $223,400 per year. May be eligible for bonus and equity.

Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle’s differing products, industries and lines of business.

Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
• Short term disability and long term disability
• Life insurance and AD&D
• Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
• Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
• 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
• Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
• 11 paid holidays
• Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
• Paid parental leave
• Adoption assistance
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Financial planning and group legal
• Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.

Career Level - IC4

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