About Us:
Marriott International Inc., headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, USA, was founded in May 1927 by J. Willard Marriott and Alice S. Marriott with a modest nine-seat A&W root beer stand. Guided by the family's leadership and core principles, Marriott International today has grown into a global hospitality giant, operating approximately 9,000 properties and over 30 leading brands in more than 140 countries and territories.
From such humble beginnings to becoming the world’s largest hotel company, Marriott International has never stopped searching for inventive ways to serve its customers, provide opportunities for its associates, and grow their business. At Marriott Tech Accelerator center (MTA), Hyderabad, India, Marriott is exploring the world we live in and all its possibilities. At Marriott Tech Accelerator, we are a team of passionate engineering minds dedicated to creating and building cutting-edge solutions that streamline operations and elevate guest experiences.
Marriott Tech Accelerator center is fully owned and operated by ANSR. All associates at Marriott Tech Accelerator will be ANSR employees, delivering services exclusively to ANSR's client, Marriott International.
Role Title: Principal Engineer
Experience Range: 10 +years
JOB SUMMARY:
Marriott has an exciting opportunity for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Administrator – Corporate Systems. This role is part of the team focused on deploying new and emerging capabilities to our next generation cloud-based ERP, HR, Payroll, analytics, and machine learning platforms. Appropriate candidates have a passion for emerging technologies with a vision for building sustainable and scalable products and a strong drive for success.
In this role as OCI Administrator, you will be responsible for the design, management, and optimization of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure environment. This role ensures high availability, performance, and security of cloud-based systems and supports enterprise-wide cloud initiatives including migrations, automation, and integration with Oracle Identity Cloud Service (IDCS).
In addition, you will research emerging technologies that will provide future capabilities as well as seek solutions for complex technical issues. You will make decisions on complex, non-routine requests to support OCI environments for Marriott business teams.
If you feel you are up for the challenge, then please see further details below.
Job Responsibilities:
CANDIDATE PROFILE:
Required Qualifications:
- In-depth knowledge of various aspects of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
- 5+ years of experience in system administration, with at least 2 years in OCI.
- Proficiency in Linux/UNIX systems, scripting (Python, Bash, PowerShell), and virtualization.
- Experience with Oracle ERP, HCM, OIC, OAC and middleware components like WebLogic
- Strong understanding of cloud security, networking, and automation tools.
- Ability to listen and understand business requirements, ask questions, and translate the requirements into technical design documents
- Ability to elicit, organize and document detailed and comprehensive technical, and non-functional requirements
- Experience in developing test plans, test scripts, and managing unit, system, regression, and user acceptance testing
- Ability to troubleshoot technical issues across platforms and follow through to a resolution
- Ability to work independently, identifying and driving required tasks to completion in a timely manner
- Proven ability to support all aspects of large, complex applications with multiple stakeholders
- Proven ability to prioritize and manage multiple support requests while working on time sensitive projects and upgrades
- Experience in waterfall and/or agile software methodologies
- Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience/certification
- 2-5 years’ experience in information technology application development support
Preferred Qualifications:
CORE WORK ACTIVITIES:
- Certifications in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Architect Associate or Professional, OCI Operations and Security.
- Technology leadership experience in an outsourced or internally managed environments
- 6-10 years’ domain experience relevant to supported business function; Industry and competitive landscape knowledge.
Infrastructure Management:
- Provision and maintain compute instances (VMs), including patching, upgrades, and performance tuning.
- Manage OCI identity domains, compartments, users, groups, policies, and IAM roles to ensure secure and efficient access control
- Administer block volumes, file storage, object storage, and archive storage.
- Configure and manage VCNs, subnets, load balancers, DNS and customer connectivity.
- Monitor system performance and availability using OCI native tools and implement proactive tuning.
Cloud Security & Compliance:
- Implement robust security measures including encryption, access controls, and firewall configurations
- Conduct regular audits and ensure compliance with internal and external standards.
Automation & DevOps:
- Develop and maintain Terraform and Ansible scripts for provisioning and configuration
- Support CI/CD pipelines and automate deployment workflows across environments (Dev, UAT, Prod).
Migration & Integration:
- Lead cloud migration efforts from on-premises or other cloud platforms to OCI
Support & Troubleshooting
- Provide technical support for OCI-related issues and collaborate with cross-functional teams.
- Provision and support OCI Data Flow, OCI Data Integration, Data Science, and related services.
- Support developers with APIs, Visual Builder, APEX, and database tools.
- Implement and manage monitoring (metrics, alarms, health checks), logging and application performance monitoring.
- Billing reconciliation, tenancy quotas, resource scheduling, tenancy explorer, and namespace management.
- Maintain documentation and runbooks for operational procedures and incident response.
Technical Leadership:
- Identifies opportunities to enhance the service delivery processes.
- Trains and/or mentors other team members, and peers as appropriate
Delivering Technology:
- Supports existing applications and large projects.
- Facilitates achievement of expected deliverables and obligations of Services Providers
- Validates completeness of requirements prior to Service Provider or internally managed team solutioning
- Through the service provider or internally managed teams, plans and coordinates complex implementation overseeing quality control of application functional design, usability, functionality, and implementation.
- Advises support desk on change management as it relates to support and training of new system.
- Ensures all projects follow the defined development and business case processes.
- Ensures proper coordination with appropriate IT and vendor relations teams.
- Provides consultation for routine and complex systems development.
- Ensures early warning to the business stakeholder executives regarding degraded or missed service levels.
IT Governance:
- Follows all defined IR standards and processes (i.e. IT Governance, SM&G, Architecture, etc.), and provides input for improvements to the appropriate process owners as needed
- Maintains a proper balance between business and operational risk.
- Follows the defined project management standards and processes.
Service Provider, COTS and Custom Application Management:
- Lead prioritization meetings with stakeholders and drive resolution of changes through the process for portfolio of supported applications
- Coordinate and track the delivery of highly visible operational activities/problems.
- Groom backlog of features and changes with stakeholders.
- Validates that Service Providers and internal teams develop and manage respective aspects of a project plan, including schedules, deliverables, and appropriate metrics.
- Makes short term plans for the team to effectively utilize resources.
- Monitors Service Provider and internal team’s outcomes.
- Reviews estimates of work effort for client project provided by Service Providers and internal teams for accuracy.
- Facilitates timely resolution of service delivery problems and minimizes the impact to clients.
- Functions as a technical expert for both senior leadership and project teams in effective utilization of existing technology in business applications, either enterprise-wise or business-wide.
- Leads workgroup/project team or functions as a technical specialist.
- Develops and manages respective aspects of a project plan with minimal assistance, including schedules, deliverables, and appropriate metrics.
- Plans and coordinates migrations.
- Coordinates with quality assurance, infrastructure services, vendor and internal application delivery teams.
- Provides consultation for routine and complex systems development.
- Provides accurate estimates of work effort for client projects.
- Understanding and ability to facilitate and execute technical infrastructure, technical specialization, and technical integration activities.
- Strong understanding of business processes, customers, and functions.
