Location : Hyderabad, Telangana, India : Type :Contracted to Full Time : Min. Experience :Experienced : OCI Cloud Architect - Contract to Hire role : Description**:Centroid is top Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) partner in North America, delivering architecture, implementation and modernization initiatives in OCI for our customers.

- Our architects work directly alongside Centroid’s and client teams to design, migrate, and modernize mission-critical workloads
- Oracle Databases, EBS, PeopleSoft, and next-generation AI/Data, Agentic AI, OCI genAI Platform solutions on OCI.
- This is a senior, hands-on technical role. You will serve as the primary OCI architect on client engagements: owning solution design end-to-end, guiding technical decisions, and delivering production-grade implementations. No people management responsibilities.

Requirements :

- 10+ years of experience in customer-facing infrastructure or cloud architecture roles
- 5+ years of hands-on OCI design and implementation experience

Location : 100% Remote

- Architect end-to-end OCI solutions for customer engagements spanning landing zone design, network topology, identity, compute, storage, and database tiers
- Lead Oracle Database workload migrations to OCI, including Exadata Cloud Service, Autonomous Database (ADB), and Base Database Service, with a focus on performance, HA, and DR
- Design and execute Oracle Applications migrations (EBS, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards) to OCI, including lift-and-shift and modernization patterns
- Architect and deploy AI/Data Platform (AIDP) workloads leveraging OCI GenAI Service, OCI AI Agents, OCI Data Science, and Oracle Database 23ai Vector Search
- Develop and present technical architectures, reference designs, and migration runbooks for client pre-sales and delivery engagements




- Build and maintain OCI landing zones using Terraform and OCI Resource Manager, aligned to Oracle's CIS Foundations Benchmark
- Collaborate with Oracle technical teams (STCs, Cloud Engineers) on joint client engagements; serve as the technical point of escalation for Centroid
- Define standards, reusable patterns, and architectural guardrails for Centroid's OCI delivery practice

Skills Preferred : OCI Core Services

- Compute: VM/BM shapes, Flex shapes, instances, autoscaling, instance configurations
- Networking: VCN design, FastConnect, Site-to-Site VPN, DRG v2, Network Firewall, load balancers (L4/L7), DNS, Private DNS Resolver
- Storage: Block Volume, File Storage (FSS), Object Storage (lifecycle, replication, versioning), Local NVMe
- IAM: compartment hierarchy, policies, dynamic groups, federated identity (SAML/SCIM), OCI Vault, Bastion Service
- Kubernetes: OKE cluster provisioning, node pool management, cluster networking (flannel/NPN), OCI Container Registry (OCIR)

Oracle Database & Exadata

- Data Guard (Maximum Availability, Maximum Performance), GoldenGate for live migration and zero-downtime cutovers
- Oracle Database 23ai: JSON Relational Duality, True Cache, AI Vector Search, Select AI
- Database migration tools: MV2ADB, Data Pump, ZDLRA, Database Migration Service (DMS)

Oracle Applications (Migrations to OCI)

- EBS 12.1/12.2 on OCI: architecture patterns, shared file system design,



wallet-based DB connectivity or similar Oracle Application experience, like Peoplesoft or JDE.

AI / GenAI / Data Platform

- OCI Generative AI Service: Cohere and Meta model endpoints, embedding models, semantic search patterns
- OCI AI Agents: agent frameworks, tool configuration, RAG pipelines, knowledge base integration
- OCI Data Science: model deployment, JupyterLab environments, ML pipelines, Aqua (AI Quick Actions)
- Oracle Database 23ai Vector Search: VECTOR data type, HNSW/IVF indexes, vector distance functions

Technical Skills — Preferred

- Oracle WebLogic Server on OCI / WebLogic for OKE
- ZFS Storage Appliance on OCI, Oracle Linux, RHEL administration at scale
- Observability: OCI Monitoring, Logging, Application Performance Monitoring (APM), OCI Ops Insights
- FinOps: cost analysis, committed use discounts, OCI resource scheduling

Preferred Qualifications

- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Architect Associate (1Z0-1072) - required within 90 days if not already held
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Architect Skilled (1Z0-997) - strongly preferred
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2024 Generative AI Professional (1Z0-1127) - preferred
- Oracle Exadata Database Machine Implementation Specialist - preferred for Exadata-focused engagements
- Hands-on experience with Oracle Cloud Lift projects

Education

- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent field - or equivalent professional experience
- 10+ years total technical experience; 5+ years OCI-specific hands-on delivery

What Sets This Role Apart

- You will work on OCI exclusively with ability to learn and engage with emerging technologies like multi-cloud architecture, Age

📌 Oci Cloud Architect - Contract to Hire Role (Hyderabad)
🏢 Centroid
📍 Hyderabad