Staff IT Engineer - Oracle Cloud Engineer

Company:

Qualcomm Incorporated

Job Area:

Information Technology Group, Information Technology Group > IT Cloud Architect

General Summary:

Qualcomm IT is seeking a Staff Oracle Cloud Architect to establish and own our Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) practice. You will serve as the founding technical authority for OCI at Qualcomm — defining the platform strategy, architecture standards, and operational model that will support enterprise workloads spanning compute, database, analytics, AI/ML, and hybrid connectivity. This is a high-impact, high-autonomy role for an architect who brings deep OCI expertise, a service-ecosystem view of cloud architecture, and the organizational credibility to build alignment across IT, security, and business stakeholders without direct authority.

This role requires full-time onsite work in San Diego, CA (5 days per week).

**This position is not eligible for Qualcomm immigration sponsorship.**

Key Responsibilities

• Define and own the OCI platform strategy and multi-year roadmap including tenancy architecture, compartment hierarchy, landing zone design, and multi-environment governance patterns that scale across teams and workloads

• Architect enterprise OCI networking including VCN design, DRG topology, FastConnect/VPN hybrid connectivity, and zero-trust segmentation patterns that satisfy Qualcomm security requirements

• Own IAM strategy including identity domains, policy design, dynamic groups, and enterprise identity federation; define encryption, Security Zone, Cloud Guard, and Vault standards as the platform security baseline

• Architect OCI database solutions — Autonomous Database (ATP/ADW), Exadata Cloud Service, Base Database Service — with appropriate HA/DR patterns; lead workload placement decisions across compute, OKE, and managed services for both modern and legacy application profiles

• Own the Terraform-on-OCI platform strategy including module design, state management, and multi-environment IaC governance; establish reference implementations and guardrails that enable distributed teams to provision OCI resources consistently and safely at scale

• Establish CI/CD and GitOps operating models for OCI workload delivery using GitHub Actions, OCI DevOps service, or equivalent pipelines; define deployment guardrails, OCIR image registry standards, and auditable delivery patterns

• Drive observability, FinOps, and SLO standards across OCI tenancies; own platform reliability, cost optimization, tagging governance, and budget alerting practices that produce measurable outcomes

• Design integration architecture between OCI-hosted workloads and enterprise systems using Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC), REST/SOAP APIs, and middleware platforms; support Oracle Fusion and ERP workload landing zones where applicable

• Lead structured build vs. buy assessments; stay current on Oracle's evolving service portfolio, CNCF landscape, and multicloud developments, and translate findings into actionable platform strategy

• Communicate platform strategy, investment rationale, and operational health to senior IT leadership; represent OCI architecture in cross-organizational forums; mentor engineers and contribute to hiring bar standards as the practice scales

Minimum Qualifications

• 10+ years of IT-related experience with a bachelor's degree in computer science, applied mathematics, or engineering — OR 14+ years without — with clear progression from technical execution to organizational technical leadership

• 5+ years of hands-on OCI experience at enterprise scale; deep expertise across tenancy architecture, VCN/networking, IAM, compute, storage, and database services required

• Advanced Terraform expertise including module strategy, state management, and multi-environment IaC governance in OCI or comparable cloud environments

• Strong CI/CD fundamentals — GitHub Actions or equivalent — with experience building pipelines that integrate build, test, security scanning, and OCI service deployment

• Solid OCI networking fundamentals including VCN design, DRG, FastConnect, and hybrid connectivity patterns in complex enterprise environments

• Experience with OCI database services and HA/DR architecture patterns including Autonomous Database and Data Guard

• Proven track record driving cross-organizational technical strategy and influencing senior stakeholders without direct authority

• Clear written and verbal communication skills across both engineering and executive audiences

Preferred Qualifications