Senior PeopleSoft Administrator

Job Description

We are seeking a highly experienced Senior PeopleSoft Administrator to provide technical leadership and hands-on administration for its PeopleSoft modernization program. The primary focus is migrating enterprise PeopleSoft applications to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and upgrading PeopleSoft applications and PeopleTools to the latest supported releases.

The consultant will work with application development, database, cloud, middleware, network, security, and infrastructure teams to build, migrate, upgrade, and maintain highly available PeopleSoft environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Assess existing PeopleSoft environments and design the target OCI architecture.
• Plan and execute enterprise PeopleSoft migrations to OCI, including testing, production cutover, and stabilization.
• Install, configure, administer, patch, and upgrade PeopleSoft environments.
• Lead PeopleTools and PeopleSoft 9.2 application upgrades using PUM methodology.
• Manage PUM environments, PUM images, patches, PRPs, tax updates, and security fixes using Change Assistant.
• Administer PeopleSoft PIA, WebLogic, Tuxedo, Process Scheduler, Integration Broker, and Elasticsearch.
• Support PeopleSoft HCM, FSCM, ELM, EPM, and Portal applications.
• Perform environment builds, refreshes, cloning, migrations, and production support across DEV, TEST, UAT, STG, PROD, and DR.
• Troubleshoot application, middleware, database, operating system, and OCI infrastructure issues.
• Perform performance tuning, monitoring, high availability, backup, recovery, disaster recovery, and security activities.
• Support third-party integrations and PeopleSoft migrations using PHIRE.
• Prepare architecture diagrams, implementation plans, configuration documents, operational runbooks, and test plans.
• Provide technical leadership, knowledge transfer, and internal staff training.
• Support after-hours production cutovers and critical incidents when required.

Mandatory Technical Skills

Skill	Requirement
PeopleSoft Administration	15+ years hands-on experience
PeopleSoft Applications	PeopleSoft 9.2
PeopleTools	Version 8.59 or later
Cloud Migration	Enterprise PeopleSoft migration to OCI
Upgrades & Patching	PUM, PUM Images, PRPs, Change Assistant, tax updates
PeopleSoft Modules	HCM, FSCM, ELM, EPM, Portal
Middleware	PIA, WebLogic, Tuxedo, Process Scheduler, Integration Broker
Database	Oracle Database
Operating Systems	Linux / Unix and Windows
Infrastructure	High Availability, Backup, Recovery, Disaster Recovery
Migration Tools	PHIRE
Additional Technical Skills	Elasticsearch, SQL Server, monitoring and performance tuning

Important Requirements:

• Minimum 15 years of hands-on PeopleSoft administration and technical architecture experience (20+ preferred).
• Proven experience migrating enterprise PeopleSoft environments to OCI.
• Strong hands-on PeopleTools upgrades, PUM, and PeopleSoft 9.2 experience.
• Must be capable of independently handling complex enterprise environments.
• Must be available for after-hours production cutovers and critical incident support.
• Position is 100% remote and is an incumbent replacement.