Principal Systems Administrator / Site Reliability Engineer

Do you have a passion for high-scale services and working with some of Oracle's most critical customers? We are looking for a Senior Systems administrator that enjoys applying cutting-edge advances in technology to complex, mind-blowing-scale enterprise systems that help solve real world problems. You will contribute to the implementation and operation of critical and complex systems. You are someone who enjoys learning and shaping the newest industry trends and technologies. You foster and contribute to the creative and collaborative culture to deliver results. You embrace ambiguity and enjoy exploring new technologies delivering robust, scalable solutions.

 

Who are we?    

We are a world class team of high calibre team, who are an inclusive and diverse with a full spectrum of experience distributed globally. We have the resources of a large enterprise and the energy of a start-up, working on a critical greenfield software assurance project collaboratively with our cloud and mobile engineering teams. The Software Assurance organisation has the mission to make application security and software assurance, at scale, a reality. We are a dedicated team, leveraging each other’s insights and abilities to produce cutting edge solutions to difficult problems through cloud, automation and CI/CD best practices. Join us to grow your career and create the future of software assurance at scale together.

 

 

Work You’ll Do:  

• Learn and shape the newest industry trends and technologies.
• Communicate and coordinate with external teams for release management, product management and engineering requirements within a globally distributed team.
• Install and operate third party tools such as Jenkins, Artifactory, JIRA and Gitlab using Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Operate and maintain monitoring and reporting tools such as Prometheus and Grafana + Elk Stacks. 
• integration of Oracle’s SSO/SAML into tool sets. 
• Develop, implementation and operate complex cloud networks. Including Peering, VCNs, route tables, DNS and security lists. 
• Extensively operate a diverse set of cloud services on OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure)
• Practice sustainable incident response and drive root cause analysis.
• Provide supporting needs to SREs

                

What You’ll Bring:

• BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• 2+ years of experience with any of major cloud providers. 
• Experience in IAC such as terraform. 
• Experience in networking concepts such as peering DNS, TCP IP, VCN, security lists
• Strong experience with Linux/Unix and windows administration.
• Experience with Docker and/or Kubernetes.
• Ability to learn new technologies quickly.
• Eligibility to work in Australia without sponsorship is essential.

 

Nice to Have:

• Deep knowledge of cloud networking such as DNS, TCP IP, VCN, security lists. 
• Knowledge of SSO, SAML.
• Experience with RESTful web services.
• Experience working with geographically distributed teams.
• Ability to drive, follow, and evangelize cross-team processes.

 

What We'll Give You:

• Supporting working in a highly flexible hybrid working environment
• Exposure to mind blowing large-scale cutting-edge systems
• The resources of a large, global operation while still having the small, start-up feel of a smaller team day to day
• Develop new skills and competencies working with our vast cloud product offerings
• Ongoing extensive training and skills development to further your career aspirations
• Incredible benefits and company perks
• An organisation filled with smart, enthusiastic, and motivated colleagues
• The opportunity to impact and improve our systems and delight our customers

 

Responsible for the operation of production environments, including systems and databases, supporting critical business operations. Will perform administration and analysis for multiple production environments and recommend new and novel solutions to improve availability, performance, and supportability. This is an opportunity to bring a combination of deep technical knowledge with administration/analysis knowledge of Oracle's Cloud Infrastructure to provide escalation support to a wide range of complex production environment problems related to immense growth, scaling, leveraging the cloud, extremely high performance, and high availability requirements.

Install, monitor, maintain, support, and optimize all production server hardware and software. Provide escalated technical support for complex technical issues which may include leading problem management cases and providing management status. Coordinate escalated support cases and lead appropriate internal technical resources and/or third party vendors to resolution and coordinate a storage infrastructure of Oracle system and database appliances. Responsible for Oracle production environments; assist with server operating system and application upgrades, bug fixes, and patching; and work on standardization projects for both hardware and software under the Oracle technology stack while providing consistent system uptime as expected in a Cloud environment. Provide on-call support, on a rotating basis.

BS degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent work experience. Identifies solutions in Technical Infrastructure support and server administration in a mid-sized environment; supporting and troubleshooting distributed applications, software, and operating systems; and administering and troubleshooting issues with messaging middleware and message brokers. Knowledge of enterprise platforms. Desire to keep up with modern technology and make recommendations. Knowledge of network architecture and protocols. Experience with enterprise administrative scripting using a major scripting language and experience with software deployment. Travel may be required in accordance with business needs. Related technical experience may be substituted for degree requirements, including Infrastructure support and server administration; supporting and troubleshooting distributed applications, software, and operating systems. Advanced knowledge of network architecture and protocols. Strong experience with enterprise administrative scripting using a major scripting language. 5+ years or more of related technical experience may be substituted for degree requirements, including Infrastructure support and server administration; supporting and troubleshooting distributed applications, software, and operating systems.