Senior Platform Engineer (OCI)

Navy Federal•Pensacola, FL

About The Position

Navy Federal’s OCI Platform Engineering Team fosters a collaborative environment and is building a best-in-class team that manages, enhances, and protects Navy Federal information and its Oracle Cloud and Microsoft Windows and Red Hat Linux server environments. As a Platform Engineer, you are expected to be a subject matter expert with hands-on experience with Oracle Cloud, tools, methodologies, and automation. This role is suited for an experienced Engineer with proven understanding of Windows Server management best practices and will focus on supporting and improving Navy Federal’s Oracle Cloud environment. Experience with Linux is beneficial but not required.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in information technology or the equivalent combination of training, education, and experience.
Advanced experience with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
Knowledge of key Oracle Cloud concepts like Compute, Storage, networking, Security & Identity, and databases.
Working knowledge of Platform as a service (PaaS) preferably Oracle Integration Cloud Service, Oracle Analytics Cloud, Java Cloud Service and various Marketplace offerings in Oracle.
Working knowledge of Oracle Autonomous Databases Services
Advanced experience with Windows Server 2016 – 2025 or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7-9 engineering and administration.
Ability to perform troubleshooting of the Windows Server or Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating systems.
Significant experience automating processes and developing automation utilizing tools such as Azure Automation, PowerShell, Ansible.
5+ years’ experience working in a senior technical or engineering role.
Effective organizational, planning, and time management skills.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Ansible.
Knowledge of and experience with Active Directory and Group Policy.
Experience with Azure to include IaaS and PaaS support.
Experience using Azure Automation tools for both cloud and on-premises resources.
Actionable knowledge of DNS, DHCP, Firewalls, and VIPs/Load Balancers as they pertain to managing and supporting a server infrastructure.
Working knowledge of Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) service model of Oracle Cloud infrastructure (or any similar cloud providers).
Financial industry experience preferred.
Oracle Cloud Certifications preferred.

Responsibilities

Develop, update, maintain, and implement automation to simplify and streamline the management of the Windows server environment.
Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to Windows Server or Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating systems and their management tools.
Creation and modification of AD groups, objects, and policies as they relate to the management of Windows/Linux Servers.
Develop, update, maintain, and implement server hardening policies.
Provide day-to-day operational support and perform engineering tasks and assignments in support of business needs.
Participate in after-hours on-call support on a rotational basis.
Monitor compliance with the organization's information security policies and procedures among employees, contractors and third parties, and manage remediation efforts for any gaps reported in audits or recommended process improvements.
Respond to security vulnerabilities identified through periodic and on-demand system audits and vulnerability assessments of the Windows, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and Oracle Cloud infrastructures.
Participate in Information Security Incident Response activities for the NFCU’s environment.
Develop and maintain documentation of all aspects of the environment, supporting systems, and procedures.
Manage IaaS and PaaS resources on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
Configure and manage VCN, Subnets, Routing rules on OCI.
Instantiate, apply regular patches and administer Compute, Storage, Load Balancers on OCI
Stand up and manage cloud database services such as Autonomous Database (ATP DB) and Autonomous Datawarehouse (ADW) on OCI.
Administer, Set-up and Manage Oracle PaaS services such as Oracle Integration Cloud, Oracle Analytics Cloud, Oracle FAW, ODI (Oracle Data Integrator) Marketplace.
Set-up and Manage Jump Servers, SFTP Servers on OCI.
Provide functional and technical support, incident management, instance administration, release management, upgrade support, and testing.
Engineer, implement, and maintain patch updates and backups.
Provisioning and managing the roles and access for Oracle Cloud Environments.
Provide escalated technical support for complex technical issues which may include leading problem management cases and providing management status.