Site Reliability Engineer

Site Reliability Engineer-220002Y8

**Applicants are required to read, write, and speak the following languages**: English, Spanish

**Preferred Qualifications**

Are you a seasoned Site Reliability Engineer or Cloud DevOps guru?

Are you a backup, restore and recovery expert?

If you are, we are looking for you to join our exciting growing Cloud DevOps team.

Our team is responsible for creating and delivering two cloud services that will protect all the databases on Oracle Cloud and in addition offer on-premises database protection as well.

Our mission is to provide industry leading data protection services our customers need and depend on when everything else fails.

This exciting new cloud operations team gets to work across a wide range of technologies and teams to deliver this new service.

Our team is responsible for ensuring all the components of our Recovery Cloud Services work seamlessly together. We are constantly pushing to define and develop the end-to-end automation of complex workflows found in day-to-day management of the Recovery Service.

This team will keep you learning and delivering mission critical services that our customers depend on.

**Preferred Qualifications**

Technical expertise in two or more areas:

- Linux and/or Unix
- Sysadmin skills
- Terraform, Infrastructure as Code
- Oracle Database (nice to know)
- RMAN (nice to know)
- Exadata (nice to know)
- Working knowledge of Virtualization, and Containers
- Including tools such as Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, Github, Jira, Teamcity, and Bitbucket
- CI/CD Experience including build automation, continuous integration, or continuous deployment tools
- Prior SRE experience managing production cloud services
- Prior experience in releasing and maintaining cloud services
- Excellent verbal and written communication
- Production experience managing systems or database environments
- Experience with a general-purpose systems language such as:
Python, Perl, Unix Shell

Database language SQL, PL/SQL (nice to know)
- Ability to work in a fast paced and challenging environment

Solve complex problems related to infrastructure cloud services and build automation to prevent problem recurrence. Design, write, and deploy software to improve the availability, scalability, and efficiency of Oracle products and services. Design and develop designs, architectures, standards, and methods for large-scale distributed systems. Facilitate service capacity planning and demand forecasting, software performance analysis, and system tuning.

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.

A BS or MS in Computer Science, or equivalent. Identifies and implements complex solutions to knowledge of server hardware and software configuration, networking, standard internet services, scripting languages, cloud computing patterns, technology security and compliance. Experience running large scale customer facing web services. Identifies and implements complex solutions to understanding of load balancing technologies and experience with development in programming languages, databases and big data stores, and container technologies. Work involves defining and documenting technical architecture of complex and highly scalable products. A minimum of 8+ years experience of running large scale customer facing web services.

**OTA-LAD-SRE**

**OTA-RM-MX**

**Detailed Description and Job Requirements**

Duties and tasks are varied and complex needing independent judgment. Fully competent in own area of expertise. May have project lead role and or supervise lower level personnel. BS or MS degree or equivalent experience relevant to functional area.