Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Migration Leadership

• Lead end-to-end planning and execution of multiple concurrent cloud migrations
• Conduct discovery assessments of existing GCP environments, including compute, storage, networking, databases, and managed services.
• Develop detailed migration plans, runbooks, and rollback procedures for each workload.
• Assess workloads and apply appropriate migration patterns — rehost, refactor, replace, or retire — based on workload requirements.
• Execute structured migration waves, validate performance and stability post-migration, and transition services to steady-state operations.
• Define and enforce migration standards, patterns, and best practices across all project tracks.
• Coordinate migration cutover windows and communicate status updates to stakeholders throughout the engagement.

Infrastructure & Automation

• Design and implement OCI infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC); Terraform required, Ansible and OCI Resource Manager a plus.
• Design and maintain OCI foundational architecture including compartments, resource groups, RBAC policies, naming and tagging standards, and environment separation.
• Re-architect GCP-native services to appropriate OCI equivalents.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines to support migrated applications running on OCI.
• Automate repeatable migration tasks to reduce manual effort and risk.
• Establish monitoring, alerting, backup, recovery, and observability for migrated workloads using OCI-native and third-party tooling.
• Operate and maintain OCI-hosted infrastructure services including compute, storage, networking, and core platform components.

Security & Governance

• Ensure OCI configurations align with established security standards and operational governance frameworks.
• Enforce security best practices including RBAC, least-privilege access, encryption, network segmentation, and secrets management.
• Collaborate with security and compliance teams to ensure migrated environments meet organizational standards.
• Adhere to change control processes and maintain accurate documentation throughout the engagement.

Collaboration & Communication

• Act as the primary technical point of contact for all migration workstreams.
• Partner with application development teams to identify dependencies and refactoring requirements.
• Coordinate with third-party vendors and internal Infrastructure & Engineering teams to support cloud migrations, upgrades, and modernization initiatives.
• Provide guidance and knowledge transfer to internal engineers on OCI architecture and operations.
• Prepare and present migration status reports, risk registers, and post-migration assessments to program leadership and key stakeholders.
• Demonstrate strong communication skills, discretion, organizational discipline, and the ability to adapt to evolving priorities.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ years of DevOps or cloud engineering experience, with at least 2 years in a migration or cloud transformation role.
• Deep hands-on cloud expertise with AWS or GCP (preferred) - compute, networking, storage, and managed services.
• Demonstrated experience with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), or a strong willingness and ability to rapidly upskill.
• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code — Terraform required; Ansible or OCI Resource Manager a plus.
• Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, or equivalent).
• Strong scripting skills in Python, Bash, or equivalent automation language.
• Solid understanding of cloud networking: VPCs/VCNs, subnets, VPNs, load balancers, DNS, and firewall rules.
• Experience migrating containerized workloads using Docker, Kubernetes, GKE, or OKE.
• Familiarity with hybrid connectivity concepts: VPN, DNS, and cloud routing.
• Windows Server and/or Linux system administration experience.
• Proficiency with monitoring, alerting, backup, and recovery operations.
• Ability to work independently, manage multiple workstreams simultaneously, and deliver on schedule.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• OCI Architect Associate or Professional certification.
• GCP Professional Cloud Architect or DevOps Engineer certification.
• Experience with database migration tools and strategies.
• Elasticsearch / OpenSearch expertise.
• Prior experience delivering engagements in a consulting or contract capacity.

CORE TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• AWS (Familiarity a Plus)
• Terraform / IaC
• CI/CD Pipelines
• Docker & Kubernetes (GKE / OKE)
• Python / Bash Scripting
• Cloud Networking / VPN / DNS
• RBAC & IAM Security
• Monitoring & Observability
• Linux / Windows Server
• Elasticsearch (Plus)