OCI Admin consultant

We are seeking an experienced Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Administrator to manage, secure, automate, and optimize enterprise OCI environments. The ideal candidate should possess strong expertise in OCI Infrastructure, Identity & Access Management (IAM), Security, Monitoring, Governance, Automation, and Cloud Operations. The role requires hands-on experience in designing and supporting highly available, secure, and automated cloud platforms while ensuring compliance with organizational standards and best practices

Responsibilities

OCI Infrastructure Administration • Provision, configure, and manage OCI services including Compute, Block Volumes, Object Storage, File Storage, Load Balancers, DNS, and Networking. • Design and maintain OCI Landing Zones aligned with enterprise governance and security requirements. • Manage OCI Compartments, Resource Organization, Tagging Standards, and Cost Management. • Support High Availability (HA), Disaster Recovery (DR), Backup, and Business Continuity requirements. • Perform capacity planning, resource optimization, and cloud infrastructure lifecycle management. OCI Networking • Design and manage Virtual Cloud Networks (VCN), Subnets, Security Lists, Network Security Groups (NSGs), Route Tables, and Gateways. • Configure and support Site-to-Site VPN, FastConnect, DRG, and Hybrid Cloud connectivity. • Troubleshoot networking issues related to routing, DNS, load balancing, firewalls, and connectivity. • Implement network segmentation and cloud security controls based on organizational standards. Identity & Access Management (IAM) • Administer OCI IAM, including Users, Groups, Dynamic Groups, Compartments, and Policies. • Implement Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) and least-privilege security models. • Configure Identity Federation, Single Sign-On (SSO), Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), and integration with enterprise identity providers. • Conduct periodic access reviews and ensure compliance with security and audit requirements. Security & Compliance • Implement and maintain OCI security services including Cloud Guard, Security Zones, Vault, Key Management, Web Application Firewall (WAF), and Bastion Services. • Support security hardening, vulnerability remediation, encryption, certificate management, and compliance activities. • Participate in security audits, risk assessments, and regulatory compliance reviews. • Monitor and mitigate cloud security threats while maintaining security baselines. Monitoring & Observability • Configure OCI Monitoring, Alarms, Logging, Notifications, Logging Analytics, and Operations Insights. • Develop proactive monitoring solutions and operational dashboards. • Analyze infrastructure performance metrics and recommend improvements. • Support incident management, root cause analysis (RCA), trend analysis, and service availability reporting.

Requirements

OCI Core Services • Compute, Storage, Object Storage, File Storage • VCN, DRG, FastConnect, VPN • Load Balancer, DNS, WAF • Backup and Disaster Recovery OCI IAM & Security • IAM Policies and Dynamic Groups • Federation, SSO, MFA • Cloud Guard • Security Zones • OCI Vault & Key Management • Bastion Services • Certificate Management Monitoring & Operations • OCI Monitoring • OCI Logging • Logging Analytics • Operations Insights • Alarms & Notifications • Incident and Problem Management Automation & DevOps • Terraform • OCI Resource Manager • Git • Ansible • Python / Shell Scripting • CI/CD Tools

Additional: Preferred / Nice-to-Have • Exposure for Oracle SaaS , Managing Oracle Database Cloud Services