Oracle Cloud Infrastructure – DoD Cloud Platform Engineering
Location Experience Clearance Certification
Remote 10+ Years Active Secret or Higher Security+ CE and OCI Certified
Position Overview
Tharseo IT is seeking a senior cloud engineer to support secure cloud modernization on a DoD Air Force program. You will design, build, and run cloud infrastructure with a primary focus on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), and work across AWS and Azure where needed. This is a hands-on role. You will architect solutions, then build them, automate them, and keep them running in a regulated DoD environment.
This is a remote role. Candidates must hold an active Secret clearance, a current Security+ CE certification, and a current OCI certification at the time of submission.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
- Cloud Architecture: Design and implement secure, scalable, and high-performance cloud architectures, primarily on OCI, within a multi-cloud environment that includes AWS and Azure.
- Kubernetes Platforms: Build and manage Kubernetes platforms, including installation, upgrades, lifecycle management, and troubleshooting. OKE experience is a plus.
- DevSecOps: Build and maintain CI/CD and DevSecOps pipelines with automated security scanning, patching, and monitoring.
- Infrastructure as Code: Implement and maintain Infrastructure as Code with Terraform across OCI and other cloud platforms.
- Migration: Lead migrations from on-premises data centers and other clouds to OCI with minimal downtime.
- Resiliency: Architect highly available, fault-tolerant, and disaster recovery solutions across cloud platforms.
- Networking: Design cloud networking and hybrid connectivity, including VCNs, subnets, DRGs, load balancers, FastConnect, and VPN.
- Security and Compliance: Apply security best practices aligned to DoD and public sector standards, including IAM, encryption, key management, zero trust, and STIG hardening.
- Data Platforms: Support compute, storage, and database solutions, including Oracle workloads such as Autonomous Database and Exadata.
- Governance: Help define governance models, landing zones, and cloud operating frameworks.
- Optimization: Monitor and optimize performance, availability, and cloud spend.
- Collaboration and Leadership: Work closely with DBAs, application teams, security teams, and government stakeholders. Provide technical leadership and support pre-sales efforts as needed.
Required Skills & Experience
- Active Secret clearance or higher.
- CompTIA Security+ CE certification, current (DoD 8140 baseline).
- 10+ years of experience in cloud engineering, cloud architecture, or infrastructure engineering.
- Hands-on experience designing and running production workloads on OCI.
- Current OCI certification, such as OCI Architect Associate or Professional.
- Hands-on Kubernetes experience in production environments.
- Experience with Terraform or other Infrastructure as Code tools.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevSecOps practices.
- Strong knowledge of cloud networking, hybrid connectivity, identity and access management, and high availability and disaster recovery.
- Experience with security and compliance frameworks such as RMF, NIST, FedRAMP, or FISMA.
- Strong Linux skills and experience supporting enterprise application workloads.
- Clear communication and documentation skills.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. Additional years of experience in lieu of degree will be considered.
Experience in one or more of the following areas is a plus:
- DoD program experience, especially Air Force.
- SCCA landing zones or DoD cloud security architecture.
- Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE) and service mesh such as Istio.
- STIG implementation and vulnerability remediation.
Desired Skills & Experience
- Advanced OCI certifications, such as OCI Architect Professional, Multicloud Architect, or DevOps Professional.
- CISSP or other advanced security certifications.
- Oracle technologies such as RAC, Data Guard, and Autonomous Database.
- Scripting in Python or Bash.
- FinOps or cloud cost optimization experience.
- Experience supporting Oracle SaaS platforms such as ERP, HCM, or Fusion.
