Site Reliability Engineer – TS/SCI Clearance (Join-Ns2)

Seattle WA / Ashburn VA

Are you a passionate Site Reliability Engineer who enjoys solving challenging technical problems at scale? Do you enjoy working with U.S. Intelligence Community agencies to implement ground-breaking cloud computing solutions? Do you see yourself helping build a premier cloud infrastructure?

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 highly 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.

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) combines the elasticity and utility of public cloud with the granular control, security, and predictability of on-premises infrastructure to deliver high-performance, high availability and cost-effective infrastructure services. Multiple compute options provide the flexibility to run the most demanding workloads, as well as less compute-intensive applications, in a secure and highly available cloud environment. Customers can self-service provision virtual machines right alongside bare metal servers and clusters on the same virtual cloud networks, through a unified web console, APIs, CLI or via industry standard tools such as Terraform and Chef. OCI’s approach gives the customer choices for storage us industry leading local NVME storage or elastic network block storage.

We support cloud solutions for the U.S. Intelligence Community. This requires a candidate to be a U.S. citizen holding and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph.

What you’ll do

·               Design, build, develop and maintain automation services, scripts, and tools

·               Configure and tune monitoring and instrumentation system(s) to efficiently detect existing issues and predict future issues based on trends

·               Lead and evangelize operational excellence, including designing and executing gameday exercises for failure scenarios

·               Collaborate with service owners to ensure important metrics are being monitored

·               Lead root cause analysis, effectively implement identified preventive measures, use data to identify the scope and scale of impact

Basic Qualifications

·               Qualified candidates have current Top Secret clearance.

·               3 years experience, including DevOps, Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), and on-call rotations, working on highly scalable distributed systems

·               5 years experience with at least one programming and/or scripting language (Python, Java, Go, Ruby, etc.)

·               5 years experience with Linux/Unix systems administration.

·               Strong interpersonal communication skills (including listening, speaking, and writing) and ability to work well in a diverse, team-focused environment with other SREs, Engineers, Product Managers, etc.

·               A team-player attitude

·               This position requires the candidate selected be a U.S. citizen and must currently possess an active Top-Secret security clearance. The position further requires, after start, the selected candidate obtain and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph and satisfy other security related requirements

 

Desired Qualifications

·               Experience automating common tasks with scripts and open source tools.

·               Knowledge of VCS (e.g. git, svn)

·               Ability to troubleshoot complex operational issues within a microservice-based architecture

·               Knowledge of data structures, relational and non-relational databases, networking, Linux internals, filesystems, web architecture, CI/CD principles

·               A solid understanding of cloud-based architectures

·               Experience deploying or managing servers in large-scale, geographically diverse environments

·               Strong interpersonal communication skills (including listening, speaking, and writing) and ability to work well in a diverse, team-focused environment with other SREs, Engineers, Product Managers, etc.

!|!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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