Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Architect

Responsibilities Peraton is seeking an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Architect to lead the design, implementation, and governance of OCI infrastructure within a multi-cloud government environment serving 70+ customer tenants and growing.

This role is the technical authority for all OCI workloads, responsible for translating mission requirements into secure, scalable, and compliant cloud architectures. The ideal candidate brings deep OCI expertise with a strong understanding of federal security and compliance frameworks.

This role requires the ability to work independently, drive architectural decisions, mentor engineering staff, and interface directly with government stakeholders and program leadership.

Work Location

Remote (but must reside and perform all work within the United States) Work Hours: This position requires working online from 8:00 AM Eastern to 5:00 PM Eastern Day to Day Roles and Responsibilities: Architecture and Design Design and maintain OCI reference architectures for compute, networking, storage, databases, and identity management aligned with government security and compliance requirements Lead the architecture of tenant onboarding patterns, compartment hierarchies, and resource isolation strategies within OCI Evaluate and recommend OCI services and design patterns to meet evolving program requirements while maintaining FedRAMP and FISMA compliance Define and enforce architectural standards, naming conventions, and tagging strategies across the OCI estate Infrastructure and Operations Architect and oversee OCI infrastructure including Compute, Block/Object Storage, Virtual Cloud Networks (VCN), Autonomous Database, Oracle Database Cloud Service, Container Engine for Kubernetes (OKE), and Functions Design and implement Infrastructure as Code using Terraform (OCI Resource Manager), Ansible, or equivalent tooling for repeatable, auditable deployments Lead capacity planning, cost optimization, and resource governance across OCI compartments an