Oracle Cloud Administrator
100% Remote
5+ months
Job Summary
Client requires a resource to support our newly formed Oracle Cloud Administration team. In this hands-on role, you will work with the client s team to administer the complete Oracle Cloud stack including SaaS, PaaS, OIC, and OCI layers. This includes sharing knowledge with the client team on Oracle Cloud Administration and OCI Governance best practices.
Objectives & Scope:
- Administer and support Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) environments across development, test, and production compartments.
- Design, implement, and maintain OCI governance structures including compartments, IAM policies, dynamic groups, and tagging standards.
- Provision and manage OCI resources using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform / OCI Resource Manager), ensuring repeatable and compliant deployments.
- Configure and maintain OCI networking components including VCNs, subnets, route tables, gateways, security lists, and network security groups.
- Perform CIDR and IP address planning to support scalable, non overlapping network architectures, including hybrid connectivity.
- Manage OCI Compute services including VM instances, boot volumes, block volumes, autoscaling, and OS patching strategies.
- Administer OCI storage services including Object Storage, ATP databases, lifecycle policies, backups, and data retention controls.
- Implement and enforce security best practices leveraging OCI Vault, encryption, least privilege IAM, and Security Zones where applicable.
- Configure and monitor OCI Cloud Guard, Vulnerability Scanning, and security alerts; assist with remediation and incident response activities.
- Monitor system performance and availability using OCI Monitoring, Logging, and Alarms; troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure issues.
- Manage hybrid connectivity solutions including VPN and FastConnect, coordinating with network and security teams as required.
- Support cost governance activities including budget configuration, usage monitoring, and cost optimization recommendations.
- Review and analyze OCI Audit logs to support compliance, troubleshooting, and operational audits.
- Coordinate change management activities for OCI infrastructure changes, following established ITSM approval and documentation processes.