Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Administrator
Artech
1 day ago
Contract
Remote
United States
Administrative
Title – Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Administrator
Duration – 7 Months
Location – 100% Remote EST
Job Description
Role Summary:
The OCI Administrator is responsible for the administration, monitoring, and troubleshooting of the organization's Oracle Cloud Infrastructure environment. This role ensures the OCI tenancy is secure, reliable, and performant by managing networking, identity and access, and monitoring/capacity functions across the cloud estate. The OCI Administrator works closely with security, infrastructure, and application teams to maintain a stable and well-governed cloud platform.
Key Responsibilities:
Network Administration
Required Qualifications:
Preferred Qualifications:
Duration – 7 Months
Location – 100% Remote EST
Job Description
Role Summary:
The OCI Administrator is responsible for the administration, monitoring, and troubleshooting of the organization's Oracle Cloud Infrastructure environment. This role ensures the OCI tenancy is secure, reliable, and performant by managing networking, identity and access, and monitoring/capacity functions across the cloud estate. The OCI Administrator works closely with security, infrastructure, and application teams to maintain a stable and well-governed cloud platform.
Key Responsibilities:
Network Administration
- Configure, maintain, and troubleshoot Virtual Cloud Network (VCN) components, including security lists and Network Security Groups (NSGs) / firewall rules
- Manage DNS zones, records, and resolution
- Design, implement, and troubleshoot routing: route tables, dynamic routing gateways (DRG), VPN/FastConnect connectivity, and peering between VCNs
- Diagnose and resolve network connectivity issues across the OCI environment and hybrid connections
- Create and manage IAM policies, compartments, groups, and dynamic groups
- Administer user accounts, access provisioning/de-provisioning, and least-privilege access models
- Configure and maintain federation between OCI and Client Entra ID (Azure AD), including SSO and identity synchronization
- Audit and review access policies to ensure compliance with security standards
- Configure and maintain OCI Monitoring, metrics, alarms, and notifications for infrastructure and services
- Analyze utilization and performance metrics to identify trends, bottlenecks, and anomalies
- Perform sizing and capacity planning for compute, storage, and network resources based on usage trends and forecasted demand
- Produce regular reporting on system health, cost, and capacity to inform operational and budgeting decisions
- Serve as a primary point of contact for OCI-related incidents, performing root cause analysis and remediation
- Maintain documentation of configurations, standards, and operational procedures
- Collaborate with security, application, and infrastructure teams on architecture and change requests
- Stay current on OCI service updates, best practices, and emerging features relevant to the role
Required Qualifications:
- Experience administering Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (or equivalent public cloud platform, e.g., AWS/Azure, with willingness to specialize in OCI)
- Strong understanding of cloud networking concepts (firewalls/security rules, DNS, routing, VPN/interconnects)
- Experience with identity and access management, including policy design and federation (OCI IAM, Entra ID/Azure AD)
- Familiarity with cloud monitoring tools, metrics analysis, and capacity/sizing planning
- Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills with the ability to work through complex, multi-layered technical issues
- Good communication skills for cross-team collaboration and documentation
Preferred Qualifications:
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure certification (e.g., OCI Architect Associate/Professional)
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/OCI Resource Manager)
- Experience in hybrid cloud environments integrating on-premises and OCI resources