Title: Senior Site Reliability Engineering
Preferred Qualifications
Building off our Cloud momentum, Oracle has formed a new organization - Oracle Health Applications & Infrastructure. This team will focus on product development and product strategy for Oracle Health while building out a complete platform supporting modernized, automated healthcare. This is a net new line of business, constructed with an entrepreneurial spirit that promotes an energetic and creative environment. We are unencumbered and will need your contribution to make it a world-class engineering center with a focus on excellence. The addition of this new, non-billable position based in India within Oracle’s Health and AI Database Services Team is a significant step forward in improving our healthcare services in the dynamic multi-tenant cloud environment.
The Oracle Healthcare platform and infrastructure team can provide you the opportunity to build and operate a suite of massive scale, integrated cloud services in a broadly distributed, multi-tenant cloud environment. OHAI is committed to providing the best in cloud products that meet the needs of our customers who are tackling some of the world’s biggest challenges. We offer unique opportunities for smart, hands-on engineers with the expertise and passion to solve difficult problems in distributed highly available services and virtualized infrastructure. At every level, our engineers have a significant technical and business impact designing and building innovative new systems to power our customer’s business critical applications. Healthcare platform is an exciting team working on at the intersection of infrastructure and applications where we are leveraging OCI to transform some of the largest Healthcare applications in the industry. We are making healthcare better for everyone. To support the vision, we are building a platform that manages end-to-end lifecycle, from provisioning to upgrade to terminate; and provides a self-service cloud experience to the customer. We are looking for passionate Site Reliability Engineers who possess Oracle Database Deep End-to-end Troubleshooting skills, Oracle Cloud, Oracle Autonomous Database, Data Management (SQL Performance management, Partitioning, Compression), Exadata expertise, Oracle GoldenGate expertise, and high-scale Database issue analysis skillsets, along with expertise in any of these skills: DevOps, PLSQL, and Python.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree/master’s degree in Information Technology, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Software, Electronics, Operational Research, or Computer System Engineering.
- Candidates possessing strong Microsoft SQL Server skills will be preferred.
- Ability to work in a collaborative, cross-functional team environment.
- Strong grasp of Computer Science concepts.
- Experience in building highly available services, possessing knowledge of common service-oriented design patterns and service-to-service communication protocols.
- Experience with production operations and best practices for deploying quality code in production and troubleshooting issues when they arise.
- 5+ years of experience as an Oracle DBA, focusing on shipping scalable, cloud-native distributed systems.
- 1+ years of experience and working knowledge in scripting languages like Python, PLSQL, Perl, and/or Shell Scripting.
- 1+ years of experience in the development, management, and organization of Golden Gate replication.
- 1+ years of experience as Microsoft SQL Server DBA.
- 1+ years of experience in a scripting language such as Python, Perl, and/or Shell Scripting.
- 1+ years of experience in development in PLSQL.
- Ability to effectively communicate technical ideas verbally and in writing (technical proposals, design specifications, architecture diagrams, and presentations).
- Understanding of the end-to-end configuration, technical dependencies, and overall behavioral characteristics of production services.
- Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaaC) tools like Shepherd and Terraform.
- Knowledge of CI/CD Platforms and components such as Jenkins.
- Knowledge of orchestration tools like Ansible and Chef.
- Knowledge of version control using Git.
- Experience in Maximum Availability Architecture & Best Practices for Oracle Database & Exadata.
- Understanding of REST Architecture and JSON is a plus.
- Building and managing Linux OS systems with good understanding how the Linux kernel works (IO, Network, etc.) and ability to read and understand source code.
Skills: Site Realiblity Engineers with experience in:
- Oracle Database
- Microsoft SQL Server
- Oracle Grid Infrastructure, ASM & RAC
- Oracle Exadata
- Oracle Cloud
- Oracle Autonomous Database
- Oracle Data Management (Performmance Tuning, Partitioning, Compression)
- Oracle Golden Gate
- Devops Tools
- Python/PLSQL/Perl/Unix-Shell
- GitHub
Work with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team on the shared full stack ownership of a collection of services and/or technology areas. Understand the end-to-end configuration, technical dependencies, and overall behavioral characteristics of production services. Responsible for the design and delivery of the mission critical stack, with focus on security, resiliency, scale, and performance. Authority for end-to-end performance and operability. Partner with development teams in defining and implementing improvements in service architecture. Articulate technical characteristics of services and technology areas and guide Development Teams to engineer and add premier capabilities to the Oracle Cloud service portfolio. Understand and communicate the scale, capacity, security, performance attributes, and requirements of the service and technology stack. Demonstrate clear understanding of automation and orchestration principles. Act as ultimate escalation point for complex or critical issues that have not yet been documented as Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs). Utilize a deep understanding of service topology and their dependencies required to troubleshoot issues and define mitigations. Understand and explain the affect of product architecture decisions on distributed systems. Professional curiosity and a desire to a develop deep understanding of services and technologies.
Career Level - IC3