Principal Cloud Operation Engineer

Oracle Oracle · Enterprise · BENGALURU, KARNATAKA, India

This role is for a Principal Cloud Operation Engineer responsible for the operation, administration, and optimization of production environments, including systems and databases, within Oracle's Cloud Infrastructure. The engineer will handle escalations, incident management, and ensure high availability and performance for critical business operations, focusing on scaling, leveraging cloud technologies, and maintaining security posture. The role involves technical leadership, troubleshooting complex issues, and automating manual processes.

What you'd actually do

  1. Install, monitor, maintain, support, and optimise all production server hardware and software.
  2. Provide technical support for complex technical issues which may include leading problem management cases and providing management status.
  3. Responsible for Oracle production environments; assist with server operating system, bug fixes, and patching; and work on standardization projects for both hardware and software under the Oracle technology stack while providing consistent system uptime as expected in a Cloud environment.
  4. Provide on-call support, on a rotating basis.
  5. Technical Leadership and SME in the Area.

Skills

Required

  • 8+ years overall experience in IT industry
  • Minimum 7 years of experience as a Sys Admin/Support
  • Strong systems architecture skills
  • Strong Linux administration (Understanding of different Hardware family)
  • Virtualisation Technologies
  • Scripting Language (Python/Bash/Shell etc)
  • Hands on experience at Monitoring/Instrumentation tools (Prometheus/Grafana, new relic, elastic or equivalent)
  • Experience with maintaining high scale deployments, managing high throughput and IO intensive services
  • Strong knowledge of system configuration tools such as Chef, Terraform, GIT, Jenkins/Hudson, Artifactory
  • Continuous Integration development/deployment, e.g. Docker, Kubernetes
  • Understanding of Networking, Cloud Computing, Load Balancers

Nice to have

  • basic understanding of Java / Go will be good to have

What the JD emphasized

  • critical business operations
  • immense growth
  • scaling
  • extremely high performance
  • high availability requirements
  • high scale deployments
  • high throughput
  • high availability mindset
  • infrastructure, cloud migration and deployment operations at scale