Service Operations Engineer - ONSR

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Seattle, Washington or Reston, Virginia

Job Description

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is building the next generation IaaS cloud service along with providing a world class cloud support experience. We are building a team of energetic, customer-focused service operations engineers to blending system admin, incident command, and NOC engineering disciplines. You’ll be part of a dynamic team that learns broadly how our cloud platform works so you can be the bridge between product engineering and our partners.

As part of the broader Engineering organization, you will act as the voice of the customer to influence product features and plans to improve the customer experience. This role is integral to the success of our customer relationships and is critical to the success of the platform.

This role will support Oracle’s Government customers.

Job Responsibilities

• Operates and performs maintenance to services running within the region through the use of Runbooks.
• Deploys code and executes other changes within the region.
• Ensures timely resolution and documentation of incidents through bridges.
• Ensures thorough documentation of incidents through company-standard reporting methods.
• Monitors the region for faults, alarms, and other errors. Informs internal teams as required through process and procedure.
• Act as lead/mentor for other service operators.
• Act as a point of escalation for incidents and other issues arising within the region.
• Operates and performs maintenance to services running within the region.
• Troubleshoots operational issues on behalf of service teams.

Requirements

• Ability to maintain a US government Top Secret security clearance.
• Bachelor’s degree, in Computer Science, MIS or another technical field, or equivalent work experience.
• Experience with Linux.
• Experience deploying code within change management procedures.
• Experience participating in or running incident bridges.
• Customer obsession, passion for delighting customers.
• Understanding of cloud concepts and platforms.
• Experience in cloud technical support, operations, NOC or similar is preferred, but not required.
• Experience working with government customers is preferred, but not required.
• Proven ability to quickly learn new technical domains and then train others.
• Great verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong understanding of cloud concepts and platforms.

The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) team can provide you the opportunity to build and operate a suite of massive scale, integrated cloud services in a broadly distributed, multi-tenant cloud environment. OCI is committed to providing the best in cloud products that meet the needs of our customers who are tackling some of the world’s biggest challenges.

We offer unique opportunities for smart, hands-on engineers with the expertise and passion to solve difficult problems in distributed highly available services and virtualized infrastructure. At every level, our engineers have a significant technical and business impact designing and building innovative new systems to power our customer’s business critical applications.

 

!|!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 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 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 5 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.

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