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., * 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.

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• 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.