Database Administrator 4-it

Database Administrator 4-IT-22000AGF

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

**Preferred Qualifications**

Oracle Hospitality Cloud Site Reliability Engineering - Database Administration

The Hospitality Cloud DevOps team is focused on maximizing service reliability for our hotel product service offerings across global Oracle data centers. Our team runs with a start-up like approach, leaving room for creative freedom. We have worked to assemble the smartest people in the industry to build and grow this revolutionary and disruptive team.

**About The Job**

As part of the SRE team, you will be continually challenged and directly contribute to the success of our Oracle Hospitality cloud service offerings, every day, working closely with product and Infrastructure partners.

As an SRE Database Administrator, you will solve interesting technical challenges by defining, designing deploying and troubleshooting key Oracle Cloud services, platforms, and infrastructure, always thinking about reliability, scalability, resilience, security, and performance of the Oracle RDBMS components.

In this role, which is a mix of architecture and operational readiness, you will be responsible for the following:
**Service Ownership **-You will be part of the SRE team, whose mission is the shared full stack ownership of a collection of services and/or technology areas, with our Development partners.

**Ownership Scope** - As an SRE, you will understand the end-to-end configuration, technical dependencies, and overall behavioural characteristics of the production services you own. In partnership with your Development partners, you will have the responsibility to ensure that services are designed, delivered and deployed to be mission critical with focus on security, resiliency, scale, and performance. SREs are accountable for the end-to-end performance and operability of the services they own.

**Service Design** - As Oracle Hospitality Cloud Services continually evolve; you will partner with development teams in defining and implementing improvements in service architecture, both current and future. As an SRE, you will be an expert at articulating technical characteristics of your services and the dependencies between services, and guide Development teams to engineer and add premier capabilities to the Oracle Cloud service portfolio.

**Operations Engineering** - You will understand and be able to communicate the scale, capacity, security, performance attributes and requirements of the services you own. To understand and communicate every characteristic of their service stack, such as:

- degradation and behaviour under load of the services and their dependencies
- end-to-end tuning needs, optimizing resource utilization, as load patterns fluctuate
- Instrumentation and metrics that clearly describe the service behaviours
- scaling requirements and patterns
- resiliency and recoverability, ensuring that backup / restore and disaster recovery capabilities are implemented, tested and maintained

**Automation -** You will have a clear understanding of automation and orchestration principles, and will be eager to automate, wherever and whenever the possibility arises, while simultaneously eliminating technical debt. Automation must be part of your DNA.

**Broad Interests** - SREs are a rare mix of sysadmins, development Engineers and Database Administrators and as such have the ability to understand and explain the effect of product architecture decisions on the ability to run as distributed systems. They are driven by professional curiosity and a desire to develop deep understanding of their services and the technologies they depend upon.

As a SRE Database Administrator you will utilize your RDBMS expertise in areas such as architecture, design, operational readiness, best practices adoption, continuous improvement of RDBMS reliability & performance, high availability & HAA design and deployments, Critical production troubleshooting etc.

**Detailed Description and Job Requirements**
- Manage database reliability and performance aspects for hotel product service offerings from within the SRE team as well as work on shipping solutions with the product.
- Own the migration of solutions and services from competitor cloud solutions to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
- Analyze, document solutions and implement best practices for our hotel product service offerings Oracle database solutions.
- Work on observability of relevant database metrics and make sure we reach our database objectives.
- Work with peer SREs to roll out changes to our production environment and help mitigate database-related production incidents.
- Provide database expertise to engineering teams (for example through reviews of database migrations, queries and performance optimizations).
- Work on automation of database infrastructure life cycle.

**Ideal Qualification/ Experience**
- BS or MS in Computer Science, or equiva