Description
We are seeking a proactive and detail-oriented Senior Cloud Engineer – OCI to play a key role within the Professional Services (PS) team by designing and delivering complex, enterprise-grade OCI solutions. This role combines deep technical expertise with strong leadership and client-facing capabilities.
In addition to hands-on technical delivery, you will actively participate in client discussions, translating business requirements into actionable designs, and present recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders. Your work will directly impact the success of strategic cloud projects, helping clients maximize the value and resilience of their OCI environments.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement complex and scalable OCI architectures across IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS services.
- Lead technical workstreams within large, multi-phased migration or modernization projects.
- Conduct OCI architecture reviews and provide recommendations to improve clients' cloud environments.
- Design and implement secure networking architectures on OCI, ensuring high availability and compliance.
- Develop infrastructure as code using CloudFormation, Terraform, and scripting languages like Python.
- Lead or support migrations to OCI using native migration services, tools, and best practices.
- Troubleshoot complex technical issues across compute, networking, databases, and storage.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams and present technical solutions to internal and client stakeholders.
- Provide technical mentorship to mid-level engineers, promoting best practices in design and delivery.
- Document technical designs, implementation plans, and operational runbooks.
- Support DevOps initiatives, CI/CD pipelines, and automation to increase efficiency and consistency.
Requirements
- Overall 10+ years of technology experience.
- 4–6 years of experience in cloud infrastructure and systems engineering.
- Minimum 3 years hands-on experience with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
- Strong hands-on experience in OCI migration tools and frameworks; experience with RackWare is required
- Experience with Oracle database migrations to OCI (Autonomous DB or DB Systems).
- Strong knowledge of OCI networking, compute, storage, databases, IAM, and high availability design
- Good understanding of OCI disaster recovery, backup strategies, and cross-region deployments
- Solid Linux (Oracle/RHEL) and Windows Server administration skills
- Working knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes for deploying and managing containerized workloads
- Experience in multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and hybrid cloud setups
- Excellent communication and client interaction skills
- OCI Architect Professional certification preferred
- Knowledge of Terraform, OCI CLI, and automation scripting (Shell, Python, PowerShell)
- Computer Science or Engineering graduate.
Top Skills
What We Do
SWATX was established in 2017 in IT Consulting practice however due to the changing built environment and the growing needs of our clients; it became necessary to broaden the services that could be provided by SWATX, so as to offer multi-disciplinary IT management consulting services and IT outsourcing under one ceiling.
SWATX have extended its portfolio through strategic partnerships to cover IT Infrastructure and Network Implementation, Business Management Tools and Applications and Security Solutions. We also act in a virtual CIO role as your trusted advisor, with a focus on improving processes and future growth. Moving along, SWATX has started to build its own unique products to support small and medium enterprise companies in their growth through IT transformation.
