Oracle Cloud OCI Architect

Overview:

The Infosys Oracle unit is a global leader in providing comprehensive Oracle services that accelerate business growth and digital transformation. With over 25 years of experience, our team of experts delivers innovative solutions across various industry verticals, leveraging Oracle's advanced technologies to drive operational efficiency and business resilience. We specialize in Oracle Cloud applications, helping enterprises become cloud-connected and achieve sustainable success. Join us to be part of a team that is at the forefront of Oracle innovation, enabling organizations to maximize their return on investment, reduce costs, and solve real-world challenges through cutting-edge Oracle solutions.

Area of Responsibility:

• Create business requirement documents covering functional and non-functional requirements, based on information gathered through workshops and interviews with client stakeholders.
• Review, propose, and develop solution architecture, ensuring application design aligns with the proposed framework and is scalable, reliable, and maintainable.
• Assess and recommend suitable technologies, tools, and platforms for implementation as part of architectural design to meet business requirements.
• Review technical solutions and develop strategies for integration with different technologies and systems to ensure seamless communication and data flow.
• Resolve complex technical challenges during build, deployment, and support phases while promoting reusable frameworks and artifacts.
• Provide specialized insights to development teams and build collaborative relationships with clients and internal teams to secure successful project execution.
• Identify potential risks in the system landscape, monitor system performance, and suggest optimization initiatives aligned with business requirements and long-term objectives.
• Establish and uphold a comprehensive knowledge base to ensure vital information is systematically recorded and readily available.
• Contribute to proposals and RFPs by delivering insights related to architectural solutions for successful solution delivery.

Contribution to the Team:

• Expertise in designing and reviewing solution architectures that align with business goals.
• Ability to provide architectural insights to strengthen solution proposals and ensure successful delivery.
• Strategic mindset to align technical solutions with business goals and market trends.
• Proactively drive initiatives to ensure smooth execution and transition of projects.
• Ability to engage with clients and internal teams to build strong and productive relationships.
• Passion for mentoring and fostering a knowledge-sharing culture.

Required Skill and Experience:

• Experience in Cloud Integration and API Management.
• Experience in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) architecture and delivery.
• Hands-on experience with OCI covering IAM, VCN and hybrid networking, compute, block and object storage, database services including Exadata Database Service and Autonomous Database, Vault/KMS, cost management, and monitoring/logging.
• Oracle database administration experience across Oracle 12c, 19c, and Oracle Database 26ai, including performance tuning, RMAN backup and recovery, and Data Guard for high availability and disaster recovery.
• Oracle E-Business Suite DBA experience on R12.1.3 and R12.2.x, including EBS cloning, patching, upgrades, and lifecycle management across development, testing, staging, disaster recovery, and production environments.
• Proven experience designing and operating cross-region disaster recovery on OCI for mission-critical Oracle workloads, with clearly defined RPO and RTO targets and periodic DR testing.
• Hands-on experience with Ansible playbook development, role design, and orchestration via Semaphore or AWX for large enterprise fleets.
• Experience with Terraform for infrastructure as code, primarily on OCI; familiarity with Terraform on AWS is a plus for cross-cloud IaC delivery patterns.

Preferred Skill and Experience:

• OCI Architect Professional certification is strongly preferred.
• OCI Security and Network Professional certification is a plus.
• Working knowledge of AWS core services including EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, and RDS is a plus.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted operations tooling and integration, such as Model Context Protocol servers or comparable generative-AI-driven operational assistants, is a strong plus.
• Linux system administration on Oracle Linux and Windows Server administration.
• Programming and scripting experience in Python 3.x, Bash, SQL, and PL/SQL.
• Working knowledge of security and compliance in OCI, including Cloud Guard, Data Safe, Vault key rotation, Bastion service, and audit log retention and SIEM integration.
• Experience with OCI cost optimization, Universal Credits management, and reporting to client finance and IT leadership.
• Prior experience delivering to manufacturing, supply chain, or industrial clients is preferred.
• Ability to communicate complex cloud and infrastructure solutions to diverse audiences, including client CIOs, business SMEs, and technical delivery teams.
• Experience leading a team of engineers across delivery and operations is preferred.
• Experience and desire to work in a global delivery environment across onshore, nearshore, and offshore teams.
• Hands-on experience with Oracle Exadata Database Service on OCI and Autonomous Database, including provisioning, patching, scaling, backup, and integration with EBS and analytics workloads.
• Experience deploying and administering Oracle Analytics Cloud, including data modeling, dataset preparation, dashboards, self-service analytics, and integration with Autonomous Database or on-premises Oracle sources.
• Familiarity with OCI Generative AI services and integration patterns, including OCI GenAI, Generative AI Agents, and embeddings for enterprise search, operational assistants, and generative-AI-driven automation.

Additional Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent required from an accredited institution. Three years of progressive experience in the specialty may be considered in lieu of each year of education.
• This position may require relocation and/or travel to the work or project location.
• Candidates authorized to work for any employer in the United States without employer-based visa sponsorship are welcome to apply. Infosys is unable to provide immigration sponsorship for this role now or in the future.

Benefits:

Along with competitive pay, as a full-time Infosys employee you are also eligible for the following benefits:

• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance.
• Long-term and short-term disability.
• Health and dependent care reimbursement accounts.
• Accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity, and legal insurance.
• 401(k) plan and contributions dependent on salary level.
• Paid holidays plus paid time off.

About Us:

Infosys is a global leader in next-generation digital services and consulting. We enable clients in more than 50 countries to navigate their digital transformation. With over four decades of experience in managing the systems and workings of global enterprises, we steer clients through their digital journey by enabling an AI-powered core, prioritizing the execution of change, and empowering businesses with agile digital capabilities at scale. Our always-on learning agenda drives continuous improvement through building and transferring digital skills, expertise, and ideas from our innovation ecosystem.

EEO:

Infosys provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, religious practices and observances, national origin, pregnancy, childbirth, related medical conditions, protected veteran status, or disability.