Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring & Observability Engineer, OC2 Gov Cloud

Overview

ECS is seeking an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Monitoring & Observability Engineer to work remotely. 

ECS is seeking a proactive Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Monitoring & Observability Engineer to support high-consequence, mission-critical DHS systems. This role is designed for a hands-on technical expert who excels in the day-to-day design, implementation, and automation of cloud-native observability, performance telemetry, and security posture monitoring across Gov Cloud environments.

This role is the primary custodian of system visibility, ensuring end-to-end monitoring of production workloads, tracking disaster recovery and replication health between Ashburn and Phoenix, and building a highly resilient monitoring plane that survives regional failures. Responsibilities also include proactively detecting performance regressions across the database and application stack, executing infrastructure-as-code automation, and maintaining strict compliance with federal continuous monitoring and FedRAMP security standards.

Responsibilities of this role include:

• Observability Architecture: Build and administer the enterprise monitoring fabric using the Observability Management Platform, OCI Monitoring (MQL), Alarms, Notifications, Events, Logging, and Logging Analytics (confirming service parity in OC2).
• Application Performance Monitoring: Deploy the APM Service to trace distributed transactions, synthetic end-user journeys, and microservice latencies across containerized and cloud-native applications.
• Cross-Region Resilience: Architect and maintain redundant monitoring planes across Ashburn and Phoenix regions, ensuring alarms, telemetry streams, and dashboards operate independently if either region suffers an outage.
• Disaster Recovery Health: Continuously track replication lag across Oracle Data Guard, Object Storage cross-region replication, and Block Volume replicas, automatically reporting on standby readiness and failover test metrics.
• Database Fleet Monitoring: Implement Database Management and Ops Insights across Exadata, Base DB Systems, and Autonomous Databases to detect SQL bottlenecks, assess CPU/I/O saturation, and forecast capacity growth.
• Security Posture & Drift: Monitor compliance guardrails using Cloudguard and Security zones; track and audit access policies, dynamic groups, and identity domain federation via IAM.
• Vulnerability & Host Hygiene: Automate Linux and Windows kernel patching, CVE tracking, and package compliance with OS Management Hub; schedule host and image vulnerability assessments using Vulnerability Scanning.
• Perimeter & API Observability: Ingest telemetry and Layer 7 inspect logs from Network Firewall; correlate perimeter traffic with Threat Intelligence feeds; monitor latency, rate limits, and throttling on API Management gateways.
• Data Protection & Key Governance: Instrument Data Safe to monitor sensitive data discovery, database masking, and user risk scores; audit cryptographic lifecycle events and secret usage through Key Management.
• Alert Quality & SLOs: Establish SLIs, SLOs, and multi-tier severity routing; lead bi-weekly alert noise reduction reviews, ensuring every firing alert correlates directly with actionable operational context.
• Infrastructure as Code: Write Python automation leveraging the OCI SDK / Cloud Shell and Terraform / OCI Resource Manager to deploy monitoring configurations, dashboards, and drift detection inventory scripts as code.
• Incident Response & Runbooks: Provide Tier-3 incident triage, metric/log correlation, and root cause analysis (RCA); author and maintain standardized operational runbooks for every page-worthy alert.
• Compliance & ATO Support: Maintain continuous monitoring reporting and audit log retention aligned with FedRAMP High and NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5 controls (AU, SI, CA, and IR families) to support ongoing DHS authorizations to operate (ATO).
• External Tool Integrations: Ingest and correlate OCI telemetry into enterprise monitoring platforms such as Splunk and Dynatrace, building unified executive and operational dashboards.

Salary Range: $140,000 - $185,000

General Description of Benefits

• U.S. citizenship with ability to obtain the required public trust suitability
• Holds a bachelor’s degree
• A minimum of 6 years of relevant professional experience