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.

Technical 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 responsibilities

Preferred / Nice-to-Have

Exposure for Oracle SaaS , Managing Oracle Database Cloud Services

Education

Master Of Commerce,Master Of Engineering,Master Of Science,MBA,MTech,Bachelor Of Commerce,Bachelor Of Science,Bachelor of Engineering,BTech