Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Consultant
Role Overview
The consultant should have strong hands-on knowledge of OCI networking, compute, storage, security, and cloud infrastructure architecture, with the ability to troubleshoot and implement solutions independently.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, configure and troubleshoot OCI networking infrastructure.
- Work with Compartments, VCNs, Subnets, Route Tables, Security Lists and NSGs.
- Configure and troubleshoot Internet Gateway, NAT Gateway, Service Gateway and Dynamic Routing Gateway (DRG).
- Work with VCN peering, FastConnect and IPSec VPN connectivity.
- Configure and troubleshoot routing and network connectivity between OCI, on-premises and other cloud environments.
- Implement and manage Network Virtual Appliances (NVA)/virtual Firewalls and associated routing.
- Work with OCI Compute instances, including Linux/Windows workloads, boot volumes, and block volumes.
Understand and implement OCI Storage services, including:
- Block Volume
- Boot Volume
- Object Storage
- File Storage
- Configure and manage Load Balancers and basic OCI network security controls.
- Work with IAM, Dynamic Groups, Policies and Compartments.
- Support OCI monitoring, logging and troubleshooting activities.
- Analyse network connectivity issues using tools such as ping, traceroute, Telnet/nc, nslookup/dig and OCI networking diagnostics.
- Review existing OCI environments and provide recommendations for infrastructure improvements.
- Prepare and maintain technical documentation, architecture diagrams and implementation procedures.
- Collaborate with application, database, network and security teams during implementation and troubleshooting.
Essential Technical Skills
The candidate should have hands-on experience with:
OCI Infrastructure
- OCI Compartments
- VCN
- Subnets - Public and Private
- Route Tables and Routing
- Security Lists and NSGs
- Internet/NAT/Service Gateways
- DRG
- Load Balancer
- Compute
- Block and Boot Volumes
- Object Storage
- File Storage
OCI Networking
- VCN-to-VCN connectivity
- DRG and routing
- IPSec VPN
- FastConnect
- On-premises connectivity
- DNS and network troubleshooting
- Network Virtual Appliances (NVA)
- Firewall-based routing
- Hub-and-spoke network architecture
OCI Security
- IAM
- Compartments and Policies
- Security Lists/NSGs
- Cloud Guard
- Basic WAF and network security concepts
Experience & Qualifications
- 5+ years of overall Cloud/Infrastructure experience, with significant hands-on OCI experience.
- Strong practical experience in OCI networking and infrastructure.
- Experience designing and troubleshooting enterprise OCI environments.
- Good understanding of Linux and basic networking concepts.
- OCI certifications such as OCI Architect Associate/Professional are desirable.
- Experience with AWS/Azure is an advantage, particularly in multi-cloud environments.
- Good communication and documentation skills.