Senior Solutions Architect, Container Services

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is seeking a Senior Solutions Architect to help customers adopt and scale applications using Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE), Container Instances, and Functions. You will work directly with developers, platform engineers, and technology leaders to understand their requirements, recommend appropriate architectures, and turn technical challenges into working solutions.

This is a hands-on, customer-facing individual contributor role. You will design and build prototypes, troubleshoot complex integrations, guide migrations, and help customers move from evaluation to production. Working closely with product management, engineering, and field teams, you will develop practical solutions to adoption barriers and turn successful customer implementations into reusable architectures, automation, demonstrations, and technical guidance.

The ideal candidate brings:

• 5+ years of relevant experience in solutions architecture, cloud engineering, platform engineering, software development, or related technical roles.

• Hands-on experience deploying and operating production Kubernetes and containerized workloads, with strong knowledge of Linux, networking, storage, identity, and application security.

• Experience with OCI or comparable public-cloud platforms, including managed Kubernetes, container runtimes, registries, and serverless applications.

• Experience with developer toolchains, Terraform, infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, and Kubernetes deployment tools such as Helm or GitOps.

• The ability to write, test, and debug application and automation code using Python, Go, Java, shell scripting, or comparable languages.

• Strong customer discovery, troubleshooting, and communication skills, with the ability to explain architectural tradeoffs to technical teams and executive audiences.

• Demonstrated success coordinating across product, engineering, and customer teams, navigating ambiguity, and translating technical work into measurable customer outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Customer discovery and architecture: Understand customer workloads, business objectives, operational capabilities, and technical constraints. Recommend appropriate container and serverless deployment patterns, explaining tradeoffs in scalability, security, reliability, cost, and operational ownership.
• Hands-on solution development: Build proofs of concept, sample applications, demonstrations, and practical integrations across OKE, Container Instances, and Functions. Connect these solutions with registries, networking, IAM, storage, API Gateway, and other OCI services as required.
• Migration and modernization: Assess existing container platforms and application dependencies. Help customers plan migrations, validate compatibility, address architectural gaps, and establish a practical path from evaluation to production.
• Deployment automation and reusable assets: Create reference architectures, Terraform configurations, deployment examples, and technical guides. Integrate infrastructure provisioning and application delivery with customer CI/CD workflows, making successful patterns repeatable across environments.
• Production readiness: Guide customers on capacity planning, scaling, availability, upgrades, observability, security, backup, and recovery. Validate critical assumptions through testing and clarify service responsibilities, customer responsibilities, and operational procedures.
• Technical problem-solving and adoption: Diagnose deployment, networking, identity, storage, and application integration issues. Develop and validate workarounds where appropriate, coordinate with engineering and support, and help customers resolve barriers to successful adoption.
• Product and engineering partnership: Translate customer experience into reproducible technical findings, clear requirements, and business impact. Contribute to architecture and API reviews, validate proposed capabilities, and help product teams prioritize improvements.
• Technical enablement and advocacy: Develop workshops, hands-on labs, presentations, technical articles, and demonstrations for customers, partners, and field teams. Turn lessons from individual engagements into broader adoption programs and measure their impact on customer readiness and deployment success.

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: $87,800 to $209,500 per annum. May be eligible for bonus and equity.

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:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
• Short term disability and long term disability
• Life insurance and AD&D
• Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
• Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
• 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
• 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.
• 11 paid holidays
• 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.
• Paid parental leave
• Adoption assistance
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Financial planning and group legal
• 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.