Oracle is at the forefront of the digital revolution. We empower nearly half a million

businesses across the globe to turn untapped potential into real business value. Would you like to join us in building cloud solutions with our largest customer? We have exciting new opportunities in expanding Oracle’s Cloud infrastructure business. So, if you are passionate, entrepreneurial, innovative, consultative, value focused, and want to have fun whilst you work, then this could be the perfect opportunity for you.

This cloud solution engineer role comprises a combination of both technical and soft skills. If you have strong technical skill, the ability to engage with people, can build trusted relationships, communicate ideas, and build consensus, then you are just the kind of person we are looking for. You contribution will be pivotal in helping customers move their on-premises databases to Oracle’s Cloud Infrastructure, on- or off-premise. Engaging with customers to understand and extend their data centre strategy and help design, build and deploy managed database infrastructure, will be your responsibility.

Cloud Solution Engineers take responsibility for a customer solution from the initial design right through to deployment and operation. The sense of achievement in over-seeing the successful evolution of your solutions from inception to delivery is one of the most rewarding aspects of the role. Driving customer success through high quality services, is the very cornerstone of our ambitions. You will be instrumental in the customer adoption of highly critical IT services and, as a result, build long standing business and value for the customer.

At Oracle, you will enjoy a high degree of responsibility and autonomy. The rewards for your contribution include a compensation and benefits package, and a continuous training program in a structured environment that are world class.

We always aim to make Oracle a fun and rewarding place to work, and you will be joining a community of hundreds of like-minded architects who are always very keen to support and help each other. Applicants are required to read, write, and speak English and German.

What You’ll Do

By engaging directly with the customer you will gain a deep understanding of their requirements and then identify how their on-premises estate can best be migrated with Oracle Database Infrastructure Services. You will work in a highly collaborative virtual team that includes infrastructure operators, operations engineers and cloud service specialists. As a team you will design and implement cloud infrastructure on- and/ or off-premise, define the service migration roadmap, define a deployment architecture, and manage the implementation for the customer. In conjunction with the local sales team, one of your responsibilities will be to deliver compelling customer presentations that illustrate the architectural vision and articulate the benefits and value delivered by your solutions. Working with an international implementation team you will help to ensure that solutions are delivered and supporting cloud operations you will be asked to provide intimate knowledge about your customers individual implementations. In addition, you’ll be working with development improving and building new services.

As cloud solution engineer with focus on database infrastructure, you help our most critical clients to improve the performance and security of existing database programs and reduce operational efforts using Oracle’s database cloud services. You will assist our largest customer to design database centric programs, leverage database and user reports, as well as system information, to analyze existing database services and optimize performance as well as security of their database service. Sometimes that will mean to write scripts that automate deployment and operations processes. Occasionally, you will perform debugging procedures to resolve conflicts, mentor database administrators and providing them with technical support and adhere to best practices in securely storing, backing up, and archiving data. As part of our cloud engineering team, you will document experiences related to database design, configuration, and performance and keep track of the latest developments and best practices in database engineering.

Continually developing our engineers is of critical importance to Oracle, and you will have the opportunity to put regular time aside to stay abreast of new technologies, new products and services, and to stay very much in touch with emerging technology both inside and outside Oracle. Oracle will provide training throughout your career to develop your technical skills and your soft skills.

Required Skills/Experience

What You’ll Bring

Your enthusiasm, knowledge, and passion for customer success will help us become the number one cloud company in the world. Architectural skills and experience are clearly important aspects to this role. These include;

• A minimum of five years' experience in database engineering
• Extensive experience with Oracle’s ExaData technology, Oracle Database and/or MySQL Software
• Bachelor's degree in information systems, information technology, computer science, or similar
• Oracle database certifications
• Sound knowledge of best practices in database engineering and data security
• In-depth knowledge of Structured Query Language (SQL), DB-CLI and at least one scripting language (Shell, Python, etc.)
• Basic network and cloud infrastructure Know-how
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
• Exceptional problem-solving and critical thinking skills
• Excellent communication skills