PeopleSoft Technical Lead & OCI Cloud Architect

Astute Business Solutions

Employment Type: Full-Time

Target Start Date: October 15, 2026

Base Salary: $135,000+ annually, commensurate with experience

Additional Compensation: Performance-Based Bonus

Benefits: Medical, Dental, 401(k), Paid Time Off, and Other Company Benefits

About Astute Business Solutions

Astute Business Solutions is an Oracle-focused cloud advisory, modernization, and managed services firm helping organizations transform and extend their enterprise applications through Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), automation, and AI.

Founded in 2006 by former PeopleSoft professionals, Astute combines deep PeopleSoft expertise with Oracle Cloud architecture, migration, modernization, and managed services capabilities.

Our PeopleSoft and Oracle Cloud practice helps organizations modernize complex enterprise environments while protecting their existing ERP investments. Astute has extensive experience migrating PeopleSoft applications to OCI and supporting customers across higher education, healthcare, government, financial services, manufacturing, and other industries.

Learn more about Astute Business Solutions at www.beastute.com.

Our Core Capabilities

Astute's services and solutions include:

• PeopleSoft Lift & Shift to OCI – Architecture, migration, re-platforming, optimization, and cloud transformation of PeopleSoft environments.
• PeopleSoft Modernization & Upgrades – PeopleTools upgrades, PUM updates, database upgrades, infrastructure modernization, and application lifecycle management.
• OCI Architecture & Cloud Migration – Design and deployment of secure, scalable, highly available Oracle Cloud environments.
• Cloud Managed Services – Ongoing administration, monitoring, patching, performance optimization, backup, disaster recovery, and operational support.
• AI-Powered ERP Modernization – Extending PeopleSoft and other Oracle ERP platforms with GenAI, AI agents, intelligent automation, and modern cloud services.
• Automation & Cloud Management – Using PeopleSoft Cloud Manager, Terraform, scripting, monitoring, and Oracle Cloud services to automate deployment and administration.

Position Summary

Astute Business Solutions is seeking an experienced PeopleSoft Technical Lead & OCI Cloud Architect to lead the architecture, migration, upgrade, administration, and ongoing management of enterprise PeopleSoft environments.

This is a senior, hands-on technical leadership role. The successful candidate must be equally comfortable designing an OCI architecture, leading a PeopleSoft migration or upgrade, troubleshooting a complex production issue, and working directly with customers and Astute's technical teams.

The individual will play a key role in migrating legacy and on-premises PeopleSoft environments to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, modernizing existing PeopleSoft environments, performing PeopleTools and application upgrades, and supporting Astute's growing Oracle Cloud Managed Services practice.

Key Responsibilities

• PeopleSoft Architecture & Administration

• Architect, install, configure, maintain, and support PeopleSoft 9.2 environments and

• current PeopleTools releases.

• Serve as a senior technical lead and Subject Matter Expert for PeopleSoft Internet

• Architecture (PIA), application servers, web servers, Process Scheduler, Integration

• Broker, and related PeopleSoft technologies.

• Build and configure development, test, UAT, training, disaster recovery, and production

• environments.

• Lead PeopleSoft application upgrades, PeopleTools upgrades, PUM updates, patching,

• and environment refresh activities.

• Configure and administer PeopleSoft Cloud Manager where applicable.

• Install, configure, maintain, and troubleshoot WebLogic, Tuxedo, COBOL, Java/JDK,

• and other required PeopleSoft technology components.

• Configure and optimize Fluid UI, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, Kibana, and related search

• and analytics components.

• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure – OCI

• Design and implement secure, scalable, highly available OCI architectures for

• PeopleSoft and related enterprise workloads.

• Lead PeopleSoft Lift & Shift migrations from on-premises data centers and other

• cloud environments to OCI.

• Design OCI Compute, Networking, Storage, Load Balancing, IAM, Security, Database,

• Backup, and Disaster Recovery architectures.

• Configure OCI networking, including VCNs, subnets, routing, security lists/NSGs, load

• balancers, VPN/FastConnect connectivity, and related services.

• Design and implement High Availability and Disaster Recovery solutions using

• appropriate Oracle and OCI technologies.

• Support infrastructure automation using Terraform, scripting, PeopleSoft Cloud

• Manager, and other automation technologies.

• Participate in OCI architecture assessments, migration planning, cutover planning,

• performance optimization, and post-migration support.

• Oracle Database & Performance Management

• Install, configure, administer, and troubleshoot Oracle databases supporting PeopleSoft

• environments.

• Support Oracle 12c/18c/19c and newer supported Oracle Database releases as

• appropriate.

• Perform database upgrades, patching, cloning, backup, recovery, and performance

• tuning.

• Configure and manage RMAN backup and recovery processes.

• Work with Oracle RAC, Data Guard, High Availability, and Disaster Recovery

• configurations.

• Diagnose application, database, operating system, and infrastructure performance

• issues across the complete PeopleSoft technology stack.

• Security & Integration

• Configure and support PeopleSoft Integration Broker and enterprise integrations.

• Configure Single Sign-On using LDAP, SAML, and other enterprise identity

• technologies.

• Support integration between PeopleSoft and OCI IAM/identity services where

• appropriate.

• Work with security teams to implement secure cloud and application architectures based

• on enterprise and Oracle best practices.

• Automation & Technical Leadership

• Develop and maintain UNIX/Linux shell scripts for administration, monitoring,

• automation, patching, backup, and operational activities.

• Understand PeopleSoft development technologies—including Application Designer,

• PeopleCode, Application Engine, Component Interfaces, Integration Broker, and

• PeopleSoft Security—from a senior technical administration perspective.

• Develop technical architecture documents, migration plans, runbooks, installation

• documentation, cutover plans, and operational procedures.

• Lead troubleshooting sessions involving PeopleSoft, Oracle Database, WebLogic, Linux,

• networking, and OCI.

• Mentor technical team members and establish repeatable implementation and managed-

• services standards.

• Customer & Project Leadership

• Work directly with Astute customers to understand technical requirements and

• recommend appropriate PeopleSoft and OCI solutions.

• Participate in discovery workshops, architecture reviews, project planning, migration

• planning, and technical presentations.

• Lead technical activities during PeopleSoft migrations, upgrades, cloud implementations,

• and production cutovers.

• Coordinate closely with Astute's U.S. and international delivery teams.

• Communicate project risks, dependencies, technical issues, and recommendations

• clearly to both technical and executive stakeholders.

• Ensure assigned projects and technical deliverables are completed according to agreed

• schedules and quality standards.

• Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a

• related technical field, or equivalent professional experience.

• Extensive hands-on experience administering and supporting enterprise PeopleSoft

• environments.

• Strong experience with PeopleSoft 9.2 and PeopleTools 8.58 or later.

• Demonstrated experience with PeopleSoft installation, administration, upgrades, PUM

• updates, patching, cloning, and troubleshooting.

• Strong hands-on Oracle Database administration experience.

• Strong Linux/UNIX administration and shell scripting skills.

• Hands-on experience with WebLogic, Tuxedo, Process Scheduler, PIA, Integration

• Broker, and PeopleSoft application architecture.

• Experience designing, implementing, or supporting Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

• environments.

• Strong understanding of enterprise networking, security, load balancing, High

• Availability, backup, and Disaster Recovery concepts.

• Experience supporting large, complex enterprise environments for U.S. and/or

• international customers.

• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, documentation, and problem-solving capabilities.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Ability to work effectively with customers, project managers, architects, DBAs,

• developers, functional consultants, and infrastructure teams.

• Highly Preferred Qualifications Preference will be given to candidates with experience in several of the following areas:

• OCI Arc