Principal Site Reliability Developer

Job Description:

 Oracle Database Engineer - Join Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and play a vital role in our rapid expansion and adoption of ground breaking cloud technologies. We're actively developing scalable public cloud services, including Compute, Storage, Networking, Governance, Database, and Load Balancing Services. If you're a skilled database engineer with a passion for solving complex challenges in high-availability environments on a massive scale, we're looking for Oracle Database Engineer Specialists like you. Join us in laying the foundation for the next-generation Enterprise Class Cloud!

 

The Oracle Database team supports all OCI software engineering teams. Every new OCI service and every new OCI region increases the number of databases we’re responsible for. These scaling challenges demand deep Oracle Database Administration skills and ambitious leveraging of Oracle technologies and engineering. As a member of this team, database availability, performance, and customer satisfaction will be your top objectives.

 

Database Administrators / Engineers will spend a significant amount of their time doing operational and reactive work related to maintaining our production databases. When not working on operational issues, the Database Administrator/Engineer is working on engineering tasks such as automation, self-healing monitors, and other efforts to improve operational excellence and database stability. The ideal Database Administration/Engineering candidate has a deep understanding of Oracle Database technologies as well as experience with scripting and automation

 If you’re a self-motivated database administrator with expertise and passion in solving difficult problems for highly available services at a substantial scale, then THIS is the right place for you!

  

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Provide all activities related to the engineering and operational management of a massively scaled Oracle database fleet

• Project long-range requirements for database management and design in conjunction with other service owners in the Oracle Cloud ecosystem

• Conduct quality control and auditing of databases to ensure accurate and appropriate use of data

• Design, implement, and maintain complex databases, access methods, access time, devise allocation, validation checks, organisation, protection, and security

 

Qualifications include:

• Possess knowledge of performing detailed performance analysis, tuning, and diagnostics for Oracle 19c Databases

• Possess leadership experience to ensure appropriate changes, upgrades, and enhancements are made based on the technical analysis

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field work

• Eight or more years of experience in Oracle Database Engineering

• Deep understanding and expertise in database management features

• Excellent problem-solving, critical thinking, and communication skills

• Ability to work in a very fast-paced and high-reaching environment

• Excellent command of written and spoken English

 

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 behavioural characteristics of production services. Responsible for the design and delivery of the critically important 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 partner concern point for complex or critical issues that have not yet been documented as Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs). Apply a deep understanding of service topology and their dependencies required to solve 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.

 

This role requires participation in on-call rotation.

 

Career Level - IC4