OCI Application Engineer – Level III

Federal Cloud Engineering Program

POSITION SUMMARY

Tharseo IT is seeking a senior OCI Application Engineer (Level III) to support a federal program as a subcontractor to a prime integrator. The engineer will analyze complex system requirements and lead the design, development, and ongoing support of cloud-hosted applications and supporting infrastructure within an established Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) environment. This is a hands-on senior engineering role centered on Terraform-driven provisioning of OCI infrastructure, automation of cloud operations, and direct engagement with application owners across development and pre-production environments. The successful candidate will bring deep, production-grade experience with OCI and Terraform and the ability to operate independently within an agile delivery team.

CLEARANCE AND CITIZENSHIP REQUIREMENTS

U.S. Citizenship is required.
Active Secret clearance is required at time of application.
Must be eligible and willing to upgrade to Top Secret clearance; active Top Secret clearance is strongly preferred.
Must be able to obtain and maintain a DoD Tier 3 (T3) investigation at minimum, with the ability to support upgrade to Tier 5 (T5) as program needs require.

QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.
Minimum of seven (7) years of relevant professional experience, with a substantial portion in senior-level cloud engineering, infrastructure as code, and production OCI operations.
Active Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) certification at the Associate level is required (e.g., OCI Architect Associate or OCI Operations Associate); OCI Architect Professional certification is strongly preferred.
Demonstrated hands-on production experience administering and operating OCI environments, including compute, networking, storage, identity, and core service interactions through both the console and command-line tooling.
Extensive hands-on experience using Terraform to provision and manage OCI infrastructure in production environments, including authoring reusable modules, managing state, working with providers and remote backends, and applying infrastructure-as-code practices across multi-environment deployments.
Deep working knowledge of cloud architecture patterns, including high availability, auto-scaling, and resilient deployment of cloud-hosted applications in vendor-supported environments.
Demonstrated experience analyzing complex system requirements and translating them into technical designs, with familiarity with formal design techniques such as data flow diagrams and Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tools.
Experience supporting software configuration management practices.
Experience working in agile, Scrum-based delivery teams using Jira for story and sprint management.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to engage directly with application owners and customer stakeholders.
Preferred: working knowledge of Ansible for automation, playbook authoring, and configuration management.
Preferred: familiarity with F5 load balancing concepts and integration patterns within a cloud environment.
Preferred: prior experience supporting a federal program in a subcontractor capacity, and exposure to Oracle vendor support workflows.

DUTIES AND ENGINEERING WORK

Analyze complex system requirements and design software tools, subsystems, and supporting infrastructure to satisfy program objectives, with emphasis on software reuse and domain analyses.
Author, review, and maintain Terraform code to provision and manage OCI infrastructure consistent with established design patterns, and lead implementation of designed solutions.
Deploy and configure virtual machines and supporting cloud resources in OCI to satisfy application owner requirements.
Work directly with application teams to onboard their workloads, including third-party platforms, onto the OCI environment.
Review existing programs and infrastructure code to identify and implement refinements, reduce operating time, and improve current techniques.
Estimate development effort, cost, and schedule for assigned work, using formal specifications and accepted design techniques where appropriate.
Execute Jira stories during sprint cycles, participate in daily scrum, and provide status updates on assigned tasks and blockers.
Validate VM and application access, including troubleshooting connectivity issues that may involve network security group (NSG) rules and related controls.
Supervise software configuration management activities for the assigned scope of work.
Collaborate with peer engineers, contribute to technical knowledge sharing, and help drive the ongoing build-out of dev and pre-prod environments as additional applications are onboarded.

WORK LOCATION AND SCHEDULE

Hybrid or remote, subject to program direction and clearance access requirements.
Standard full-time schedule aligned to the program calendar.

EMPLOYMENT DETAILS

Full-time, W-2 employment with Tharseo IT.
Position is contingent on contract continuation, clearance verification, and customer approval.

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

Tharseo IT is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.

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OCI Application Engineer Level III