Security Tools Services - Principal Site Reliability Engineer

As a Security Tools Services Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), you will design, develop, and operate security tools services operating in the Oracle Cloud. You will work collaboratively with our customer, cloud engineering, and security tools engineering teams to design, deploy and operate critical software assurance services.

This role offers complete end to end ownership using the DevOps lifecycle practices through designing, developing, deployment and operating a third-party artifact repository service. You will contribute to developing continuous integration services, build toolchains, and security analysis tools that use this repository.

We value self-initiated systems engineers who have a passion to learn, build and rollout critical services. You will have the opportunity to manage challenges at scale, help shape cloud operations with autonomy to structure your journey. The role is 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!

As an SRE on the Security Tools Services team, you will have the opportunity to:
- Design and implement a third-party artifact repository
- Evaluate and improve the security of the repository
- Define and document technical architecture of the system
- Troubleshoot the artifact repository system
- Support large capacity system running in a 24/7 environment
- Respond to incidents and quickly resolve issues on a rotation basis

Basic Qualifications:
- BS degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent practical experience
- 8+ years experience in Systems Development or Systems Engineering, DevOps, SRE roles developing and/or running large scale infrastructure, cloud or web services
- Experience with Java, Python and/or Go
- Experience with Linux OS
- Experience using/creating build tools (Gradle, Ant, Maven, or similar)
- Proficient with source code management tools (GIT or similar)
- Experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins or similar)
- Comfort with complex, rapidly evolving software development environments
- Ability to learn new technologies quickly
- Strong team player
- Good communication skills and fluent English
- Eligibility to work in Australia without sponsorship is essential

Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience working with geographically distributed teams
- Working knowledge of PaaS components like Cloud Object Storage, Redis
- Ability to drive, follow, and evangelise cross-team processes

 

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.