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Oracle Consulting Technical Director, Chief Cloud Architect- GDI

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Reston, VAJob$126–264K/yrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today

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Compensation
$126–264K/yr
Location
Reston, VA
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

TS/SCI clearanceBachelor's degree

Job overview

Oracle seeks a Chief Cloud Architect to design, implement, and maintain Oracle Cloud Infrastructure solutions for enterprise mission systems and business applications. The role leads cross-functional teams in building secure, scalable, high-performing cloud environments and calls for deep Oracle product and cloud architecture expertise, strategic thinking, and hands-on experience with Oracle-based systems in high-volume environments. The candidate must be able to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI clearance with polygraph.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Cloud Solution ArchitectureCustomer Requirements TranslationCloud ComputeCloud StorageCloud NetworkingIdentity Access ManagementCloud Tenancy DesignAccess PoliciesSecure Deployment FoundationsIP AddressingRoutingDNSLoad BalancingFirewallsVPNsPrivate ConnectivityTerraformInfrastructure as CodeVersion ControlReusable Deployment ModulesKubernetesDockerOracle Database IntegrationCloud Resilience DesignCloud Scalability DesignCloud Performance DesignCloud Cost EfficiencyCloud MonitoringCloud TroubleshootingPythonBashPowerShellInfrastructure AutomationCloud SecurityLeast PrivilegeEncryptionSecrets ManagementAuditingNetwork SegmentationAnalytical Thinking

Qualifications

TS/SCI Clearance With PolygraphBachelor's in Computer Science or Related12+ Years Relevant ExperienceIntelligence Community Systems ExperienceGovernment Cloud ExperienceRMF and ATO ExperienceOCI Certification

Benefits

Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
401(k) Match
Paid Time Off
Parental Leave

Full job description

Job Description

We are seeking a highly experienced and motivated Chief Cloud Architect to join our team. The ideal candidate will play a critical role in designing, implementing, and maintaining Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) solutions to support enterprise mission systems and business applications. You will lead and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure secure, scalable, and high-performing cloud environments, leveraging your deep knowledge of Oracle products and cloud architecture best practices. This role demands technical expertise, strategic thinking, and hands-on experience with Oracle-based systems in high-volume environments. If you thrive in a fast-paced, data-driven organization and enjoy solving complex data engineering challenges, we want to hear from you. The position requires the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI security clearance with Polygraph.

Responsibilities

Required Skills:

  • The ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI security clearance with a polygraph.

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related discipline.

  • At least 12 years of relevant experience designing, implementing, or supporting enterprise-scale infrastructure and mission systems.

  • Demonstrated experience leading cloud solution architecture and translating customer requirements into production deployments.

  • Strong hands-on experience with cloud compute, storage, networking, and identity and access management services.

  • Experience designing cloud tenancy and compartment structures, access policies, and secure deployment foundations.

  • Strong understanding of cloud networking, including IP addressing, routing, DNS, load balancing, firewalls, VPNs, and private connectivity.

  • Proficiency with Terraform and infrastructure-as-code practices, including version control and reusable deployment modules.

  • Experience deploying and supporting containerized workloads using Kubernetes and container technologies such as Docker.

  • Experience integrating Oracle Database workloads into cloud architectures, including provisioning, connectivity, backup, recovery, and availability considerations.

  • Experience designing for resilience, scalability, performance, and cost efficiency.

  • Ability to monitor and troubleshoot cloud infrastructure, including network connectivity, resource utilization, and service dependencies.

  • Proficiency in Python, Bash, PowerShell, or comparable scripting tools for infrastructure automation.

  • Working knowledge of cloud security principles, including least-privilege access, encryption, secrets management, auditing, and network segmentation.

  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work across application, database, networking, security, and operations teams.

  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, including experience producing architecture diagrams, technical designs, and customer presentations.

Desired Skills:

  • Experience supporting Intelligence Community (IC) or other federal mission systems.

  • Experience deploying solutions in government or classified cloud environments.

  • Experience supporting security authorization activities, including the Risk Management Framework (RMF), Authority to Operate (ATO) processes, and applicable security control implementation.

  • Experience developing hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud architectures.

  • Experience with Kubernetes and automated application deployment.

  • Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application delivery.

  • Experience planning and executing Oracle Database migrations.

  • Experience with cloud governance, resource tagging, capacity planning, and cost management.

  • Familiarity with geospatial, data-intensive, or AI-enabled mission workloads.

  • Relevant OCI architecture, networking, security, or operations certifications.

Disclaimer:

Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $126,200 to $264,100 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.

Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:

  1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion

  2. Short term disability and long term disability

  3. Life insurance and AD&D

  4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)

  5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts

  6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits

  7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match

  8. Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.

  9. 11 paid holidays

  10. Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.

  11. Paid parental leave

  12. Adoption assistance

  13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan

  14. Financial planning and group legal

  15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.

As part of Oracle's onboarding process and consistent with applicable law, US-based employees are required to complete identity verification, which involves the collection and processing of their biometric information. Accommodations to this requirement may be granted following an individualized assessment.

About Us

Only Oracle brings together the data, infrastructure, applications, and expertise to power everything from industry innovations to life-saving care. And with AI embedded across our products and services, we help customers turn that promise into a better future for all. Discover your potential at a company leading the way in AI and cloud solutions that impact billions of lives.

True innovation starts when everyone is empowered to contribute. That’s why we’re committed to growing a workforce that promotes opportunities for all with competitive benefits that support our people with flexible medical, life insurance, and retirement options. We also encourage employees to give back to their communities through our volunteer programs.

We’re committed to including people with disabilities at all stages of the employment process. If you require accessibility assistance or accommodation for a disability at any point, let us know by emailing [email protected] or by calling 1-888-404-2494 in the United States.

Oracle is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Oracle will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to applicable law.

How this job compares

Set against the 2,809 open Cloud Architect jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 3, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$126–264K/yr
  • Virginia median$147–208K/yr238 salary ranges
  • US median$147–239K/yr2,526 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $195K, is 8% above the Virginia median midpoint ($181K) — in the top quarter of Cloud Architect salary ranges in Virginia.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 269 open Cloud Architect jobs in Virginia and 2,809 across the US. 12% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Virginia
Experience
This posting asks for at least 12 years of experience — more than three in four Cloud Architect postings that state a minimum ask for (median 9 years, across 2,441 postings).
Education
This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 836 of the 2,809 open Cloud Architect jobs (30%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 3, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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