Job Description

Our team at Oracle is building a cloud-native platform for the Fusion Applications that operates at a large scale in a broadly distributed multi-tenant cloud environment.

As a member of the team, you will have an opportunity to build an SRE team from the ground up. We value self-initiated systems engineers who have a passion to learn, build, automate and rollout infrastructure services globally. You will have the opportunity to manage challenges at scale, be part of cloud operations with autonomy to structure your journey. The role is a mesh of systems engineering, automation engineering, and network operations. If you are a curious problem solver who values simplicity, comfortable with ambiguity, and are excited to learn, you will be a great fit!

Detailed Job Description

As a senior SRE on the team, you will have the opportunity to:

• Design architectures and create software to improve the availability, scalability, and efficiency of the service at a very large scale
• Evaluate and improve the security of the deployed system
• Help develop the end-to-end configuration
• Identify the overall behavioral characteristics of the services and define and measure key performance indicators (KPIs)
• Automate the deployment and monitoring of the service across all of OCI's regions
• Create new regions
• Participate in troubleshooting service and infrastructure issues 

Job Responsibilities

• Use technologies such as Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform to build and operate highly available, high-performance distributed systems
• Automate tasks to enable continuous delivery and ensure continuous availability with minimal human overhead
• Define and drive change management, continuous integration, and deployment best practices
• Contribute to product roadmaps by identifying areas of need and engaging with stakeholders to scope work
• Help create and maintain real-world production architectures, scalability, and system design
• Define and document the technical architecture of complex and highly scalable products
• Use a methodical approach to troubleshoot large, complex, interconnected systems
• Participate in on-call rotations to provide optimal support for our mission-critical systems
• Raise the bar for engineering and operational quality and best practices

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years experience in Systems Engineering, DevOps or SRE roles running large scale infrastructure, cloud or web services
• Proficiency in any one modern language like Go, Python, Bash/Shell
• Proficiency with the following tools and Operating Systems: Terraform, Helm, Docker, Oracle Linux (Red Hat, CentOS)
• Solid understanding of certificates: PKI, SSL, SSH
• Familiarity with several of the following technologies: Kubernetes, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (AWS/Azure/Google Cloud), CI/CD systems (TeamCity/GitLab), Proxies (Envoy, Ngnix)
• Strong team player with outstanding communication, organization, and interpersonal skills
• Comfort with complex, rapidly evolving software development environments
• Experience running large scale customer-facing web services
• Experience using ticket tracking systems such as JIRA

Oracle is an Affirmative Action-Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veterans status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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.

Oracle is an Affirmative Action-Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veterans status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.