Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Accenture Federal Services is dedicated to helping the US federal government enhance its operations through technology. They are seeking an OCI Cloud Administrator to support the operations, maintenance, and improvement of their Enterprise Cloud environment, focusing on enhancing and optimizing cloud computing capabilities.
Responsibilities
- Utilize Enterprise Cloud Operational Tools, the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) native portal, and/or other approved tools necessary to support workloads in the VA’s enterprise cloud tools listed at the bottom)
- Assist with compliance, logging, and monitoring solutions for OCI workloads
- Assist with reporting on current OCI status
- Documentation of production operations processes via production operation manuals (POMs)
- Support OCI cloud-based continuous improvement, deployment, and migration efforts as needed
- Utilize automation tools such as Ansible, Cloud Formation, Terraform or similar as needed in support of OCI workloads. ServiceNow. - Logging/ Observability: Dynatrace, SolarWinds, Splunk. - Migration: CloudKey, Jira. - Reporting: Apptio, Cloudability
Skills
- Bachelor's Degree in computer science, engineering, or technical discipline (10 years additional work experience might be considered in lieu of a degree)
- Three (3) to six (6) years setting up, configuring and using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) operational tools to ensure service level agreements and performance targets are met, and continued compliance with policies, standards and guidelines
- Experience in systems administration within Linux (Red Hat) or Windows environments
- Experience in one or more of the VAECOT suite of tools, shown below: - OCI Cloud Service Provider (CSP) Operational Tools/Services. - Oracle Cloud Security: Access Governance, Autonomous Linux, Bastian, Certificates, Cloud Guard, Hardware Root of Trust, Identity and Access Management, Isolated Network Virtualization, Key Management, Network Firewall, Security Zones, Threat Intelligence, Vulnerability Scanning. - Oracle Cloud Monitoring and Logging: Connector Hub, Database Management, Fleet Application Management, Full Stack Disaster Recovery, Logging, Log Analytics, Monitoring, Stack Monitoring, Notifications, Ops Insights, OS Management Hub, Resource Manager. - Oracle Cloud Networking: DNS Management, FastConnect, Load Balancers, Networking Gateways, Private Endpoint, Site-to-Site VPN, Virtual Cloud Networks. - Oracle Storage: Archive Storage, Block Volumes, File Storage, Object Storage, Storage Gateway
- Some experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP tool equivalents to OCI Cloud Service Provider (CSP)
- Operational Tools/Services desired: - Cloud Security: Armis, BigFix, CloudStrike, Centrify, NetSkope, Tenable Nessus. - Cloud Governance: Turbot. - Containerization: Red Hat OpenShift. - DevOps/Configuration Management/Help Desk: Ansible, Cloudockit, GitHub, Jira ServiceDesk
- Current OCI certification or a recent passing exam (e.g., OCI Associate/ Professional/ Specialist levels)
- Experience creating, testing, and maintaining virtual machine images
- Experience in creating technical documentation, standard operating procedures, and how-to guides
- Assisting application teams with system administration
- Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) certification or ITIL knowledge
- Knowledge of security regulations, best practices, countermeasures, compliance standards and current threats
- Previous Federal Government experience
Benefits
- Hands-on experience, certifications, industry training and more
- Accenture Federal Services offers a wide variety of benefits. [You can find more information on benefits here.](https://www.accenture.com/us-en/careers/your-future-rewards-benefits)
- Reasonable accommodation when needed
- Accommodations made to facilitate the recruiting process are not a guarantee of future or continued accommodations once hired.
Company Overview