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.

Department Description

Compute Substrate of OCI - We are Cloud builders. Compute is the core organization within OCI. We are responsible for providing the Compute hosts that power the Cloud. The Compute Substrate organization comprises of a family of critical foundational infrastructure services that drive OCI’s hardware lifecycle activities (Provision, Repair, Monitor, Recycle). Compute Substrate needs strong engineers that will be responsible for owning, operating, improving and optimizing the core services that make up OCI Compute.  Join a diverse, distributed, and collaborative team to take on this challenge!

Responsibilities

We’re looking for hands-on engineers with a passion in solving difficult problems in distributed systems, virtualized infrastructure, and highly available services. An engineer at any level can have significant technical and business impact. Solve complex problems related to infrastructure cloud services, build automation and optimize cloud service implementations to prevent problem recurrence.  You should have proficiency with scripting and Python or Java, have experience with distributed systems, be able to dive deep into any part of the stack and low level systems, as well as understand broad distributed system interactions. Participate in Incident Management, Change and Problem Management, On call support, System & Ops Optimization, Security & Patching, Runbook & Automation, Region Build & Releases.

Qualifications

BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding or equivalent practical experience
4+ years of Dev/DevOps/SRE experience with large scale, highly available distributed systems
Proficiency with Linux operating systems and Linux system administration
Proficiency with Linux/Python/BASH/Java
Strong troubleshooting and performance tuning skills
Proficiency automating tasks
Systematic problem-solving approach, strong communication skills, a sense of ownership and drive
Deep understanding of service metrics and alarms through the development of dashboards, service KPIs, alarming systems
Experience working in an operational environment with mission critical tier one services with associated oncall duty
Drive automation, optimization, and enhancement tasks
Open for on-call support & rotation

Desirable Qualifications

Experience with Cloud and CICD environments
Experience with hardware troubleshooting, BIOS/ILOM
Proficient with Terraform, Docker
Proficient with build tools and pipelines (e.g. TeamCity, Maven, make)
Experience building multi-tenant, virtualized infrastructure
Experience with change control management and mature operating processes
Experience with Security including Identity, SSL and certificates
Experience with Database