Senior Solutions Architect - Container Services

We are looking for a Senior Solutions Architect who combines hands-on software development experience with strong product judgment to make OCI’s cloud native services easier for developers and operators to use.

In this role, you will understand customer problems, define and prioritize solutions, and write the production code that delivers them. You will own a defined feature area from discovery through implementation, release, and adoption.

You will collaborate with product, engineering, design, and customer-facing teams to build developer tools and platform integrations. Success means customers can complete their work more easily, supported by software that is reliable, maintainable, and responsive to their needs.

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:
1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
2. Short term disability and long term disability
3. Life insurance and AD&D
4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
8. 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.
9. 11 paid holidays
10. 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.
11. Paid parental leave
12. Adoption assistance
13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan
14. Financial planning and group legal
15. 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.

Key Responsibilities

Product Management:

• Independently identifies customer needs and workflow gaps across CI/CD, infrastructure automation, Kubernetes, and application operations.
• Defines requirements, acceptance criteria, and backlog priorities, balancing customer value, technical feasibility, and product direction.
• Establishes success measures and uses customer feedback, adoption data, and telemetry to guide product improvements.

Product Delivery:

• Owns a bounded platform component or feature, designing, implementing, testing, and releasing production software within established architecture.
• Builds APIs, integrations, and automation that connect OCI services and simplify developer and operator workflows.
• Improves automated testing, deployment processes, observability, and secure development practices.
• Delivers documentation, examples, demonstrations, and adoption guidance; validates releases with customers and early adopters.
• Participates in operational maintenance, incident response, and on-call support for owned components.

Core Responsibilities

• Works with service PMs, outbound PMs, SAs, and other outbound functions to identify, analyze, and prioritize customer requirements and create necessary product documents
• Combines customer evidence, technical investigation, and product data to resolve issues and make informed tradeoffs.
• Independently manages scope, roadmap, priorities, milestones, and dependencies. Communicates delivery risks and recommends adjustments.
• Builds alignment across product, engineering, design, support, and field teams to deliver shared customer outcomes.
• Develops expertise in cloud platforms, DevOps, Kubernetes, and product management, sharing knowledge with team members.
• Improves customer workflows, development automation, and operational practices based on observed results.

Required Qualifications

• 3+ years developing, releasing, and supporting production software, with experience in distributed systems or cloud infrastructure.
• Strong programming skills in Java or Go, with experience using Python for automation.
• Knowledge of data structures, algorithms, operating systems, and reliable service design.
• Ability to translate customer needs into requirements, prioritize work, and evaluate delivered outcomes.
• A degree in computer science or a closely related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred Qualifications

One or more of the following:

• Experience working with containers, Kubernetes, container networking, or infrastructure serving multiple tenants, ideally in a PaaS context.
• Experience defining and shipping cloud application management tools that unify resource inventory, deployment context, operational health, cost, and security into a single application view.
• Experience with CI/CD, infrastructure as code, developer tools, customer discovery, or product adoption measurement.