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Preferred Qualifications - An IaaS Principal Cloud Architect, Networking is expected to possess strong Networking and consulting skills and contribute to the physical/logical infrastructure architecture design, review and implementation of Projects. This job requires the ability to work in a flexible schedule up to midnight India time to overlap with the US Cloud Engineering team. Normal working hours are 2pm – 11pm. Responsibilities: - Design/Develop & Implement Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) per end-user requirement/specs. - Automate common infrastructure tasks / customer requests by using Python, shell scripting or other cloud tooling. - Develop reusable Intellectual Property (IP) for the Cloud Engineering Delivery organization to help drive delivery efficiency and customer value. - Provide architectural oversight & support for new implementations, upgrades, and migrations on/to Oracle cloud infrastructure. - Effective collaboration with infrastructure teams, application development teams, testing and release teams - Mentor junior IaaS resources to expand the team's capacity and establish consistency among delivery consultants - Identify and quickly escalate potential issues with solution design, packaged software, client resources, or anything else that impacts your ability to deliver according to expectations. Accountabilities: • Be a trusted technical advisor to customers and solve complex Cloud Infrastructure and Networking challenges. • Create and deliver best practices recommendations, tutorials, blog articles, sample code, and technical presentations adapting to different levels of key business and technical stakeholders Required Knowledge & skills: - 10+ years of work experience in any combination of engineering, and consulting with any Hyperscaler, with increasing responsibilities, and with a special focus on Network design & implementation along with infrastructure design and automation. - Hands on skills with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) or solutions from other providers, such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure etc. would be of required, especially with PaaS and IaaS. - Ability to create, update, understand architecture diagrams based on end-user specs & implement the same. - Experience with physical networking, understanding routing (expertise on BGP), firewalls, WAF, Network accelerators, CDN, Load balancers & SSL Certificates. - Experience in deploying Firewalls, Load balancers and routers as a Virtual appliance in cloud infrastructure. - In depth knowledge of various cloud & on-premise networking components including connectivity between clouds / on-prem to cloud. - Good understanding of IaaS Compute and operating systems, and compute migration methodologies and implementation techniques. - Hands-on working knowledge of Terraform / Ansible & Python - Team player with strong interpersonal and excellent communication skills - Strong consulting skills to work in a professional manner with customer IT and business users. Desired Skills: - - Experience in designing & implementing complex Hybrid Architectures that span across on-Prem, and Cloud (including multi-cloud). - Experience in integrating Clouds with third-party tools such as Splunk, QRadar, Sumo Logic, Datadog, Grafana etc. for Log Analytics / flow logs and other services. - Experience migrating workloads from on-premises into Cloud, or between Clouds. - Strong knowledge of networking that includes: - Cloud Network Design & multi-cloud network design. - Implementation of VPN, and enterprise network equipment routers, firewalls, and switches. - Experience with physical networking, understanding routing (expertise on BGP), firewalls, WAF, Network accelerators, CDN, Load balancers & SSL Certificates. - Experience in deploying Firewalls, Load balancers and routers as a Virtual appliances in cloud infrastructure. - Analysis of cloud strategies, design and development of tools for Oracle products deployment in OCI. - Proven ability in performing rapid assessments of clients’ internal technology landscape and targeting use cases and deployments for Oracle Cloud technology. - OCI knowledge/ certification is preferred. - Experience with Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD pipelines / DevOps code-first methodology is highly desirable. - Team player with strong interpersonal and excellent communication skills - Strong consulting skills to work in a professional manner with customer IT and business users. -