Oracle Cloud Engineer (SME) - REMOTE

JTEC Consulting LLC is seeking an Oracle Cloud Senior Engineer (SME) to lead the implementation, administration, and optimization of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure solutions. The role supports mission-critical systems in the Oracle DoD Realm and Cloud One ecosystem, with responsibilities spanning cloud infrastructure, containerization, database security and compliance, FinOps, and Oracle support escalations.

Responsibilities:

• Architect, provision, scale, and manage secure, high-availability IaaS and PaaS environments in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
• Manage and maintain services within the Oracle DoD Realm and execute workflows aligned with Cloud One's architectural and operational guardrails
• Design, configure, and operate complex OCI multitenant environments with strict logical isolation, governance policies, and compartmental structures
• Lead containerization efforts across the environment, architecting container deployment pipelines and managing workloads using Docker and Kubernetes (Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes / OKE)
• Collaborate with DevOps and application teams to align CI/CD pipelines, automated deployments, and infrastructure-as-code practices with OCI native tooling
• Administer, tune, and maintain cloud-based Oracle databases, ensuring high availability (HA), resilience, disaster recovery, and peak performance
• Implement, configure, and monitor Oracle Data Safe
• Enforce database security baselines, user assessment, sensitive data discovery, data masking, and audit compliance
• Uphold stringent DoD data security, hardening (STIGs), and federal regulatory standards across all compute and database layers
• Analyze OCI cost models, monitoring resource utilization metrics, and driving FinOps strategies to eliminate resource waste and ensure contract budget compliance
• Act as the primary technical liaison to Oracle Cloud Support; manage Service Requests (SRs), coordinate severity escalations, and drive root cause analysis (RCA) to resolution
• Partner with cross-functional defense and engineering teams to provide ongoing technical guidance, performance monitoring, and architecture reviews

Requirements:

• Current Secret
• Qualified candidates will have subject matter expertise supporting containerized workloads, configuring and managing Oracle Data Safe for continuous compliance, optimizing cloud spend, and serving as the primary operational liaison to Oracle Cloud Support
• This position requires deep technical expertise in OCI IaaS/PaaS, container orchestration, multitenant operations, and cloud database security
• U.S. citizenship; no dual citizenship
• Current secret clearance (at a minimum)
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related technical discipline (equivalent years of direct experience may be considered in lieu of a degree)
• Current CompTIA Security+ certification or equivalent industry recognized certification to meet DoD 8570/8140 baseline compliance (CISSP, CCNA, CAP, CASP+ CE, CCISO, CND, CSSLP, CySA+, GSLC, or SSCP)
• 10+ years of progressive experience in data engineering, software engineering, or distributed backend systems
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), with direct experience operating within the Oracle DoD Realm or Cloud One ecosystem
• Effective written and verbal communication skills to support a collaborative, cross-functional team including engineering peers and operational stakeholders
• Demonstrated ability to self-direct and solve complex performance bottlenecks in production distributed environments
• Prior experience delivering platforms within federal, defense, or highly regulated enterprise spaces
• Hands-on experience provisioning, configuring, and maintaining environments within the Oracle DoD Realm of OCI
• Direct hands-on experience supporting or integrating with Cloud One's OCI environment
• Demonstrated track record managing enterprise-scale OCI multitenant architectures
• Technical proficiency with containerization platforms and container runtime environments (Docker, Kubernetes/OKE)
• In-depth background in Oracle cloud-based database administration, high-availability configurations, and performance troubleshooting
• Direct experience deploying, configuring, and monitoring Oracle Data Safe
• Practical experience utilizing OCI native cost analysis tools, setting budgets/alerts, and optimizing enterprise cloud consumption
• Experience interfacing directly with Oracle Customer Support / My Oracle Support (MOS) on mission-critical escalations
• Official Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Certifications (e.g., OCI Architect Professional, OCI Operations Associate, or OCI Autonomous Database Specialist)
• Hands-on experience with Terraform, Ansible, or OCI Resource Manager for infrastructure-as-code (IaC)
• Experience implementing DoD Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs) and RMF accreditation workflows within OCI environments