Member of Technical Staff

Cloud Foundations Services (CFS) is a strategic component for providing critical cloud services to multiple Oracle Global Industry Unit applications. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Oracle s second generation Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), provides improved performance and reliability. CFS provides a microservice-driven platform, software delivery tool chain, and a continuous integration/continuous delivery operations model to support high margin, highly elastic, and highly available Software as a Service (SaaS) applications.

We are seeking a Member of Technical Staff for our microservices platform development team.

Career Level - IC2

Roles & Responsibilities

The candidate will work with highly skilled, highly motivated engineers using agile methodologies based on Scrum or Kanban, and incorporating enterprise agile practices from Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). The team embraces a DevOps environment - the Developers are the Operators. The work environment is to treat everything as code (code, configuration, infrastructure, pipelines, everything) to achieve the highest quality product in the most efficient amount of time.

Work with the Product Owner and team members to build new features and enhancements, while supporting existing capacities being heavily utilized across all Oracle Global Industry Units

- Use Everything-As-Code methodologies to ensure traceability, configurability, immutability, repeatability, and governability

- Provide technical expertise and guidance in the refinement of user stories.

- Lead the design and implementation of new features and enhancements, ensuring adherence to coding standards and architectural guidelines

- Create merge requests for their codes and follow the MR process

- Review code from their peers and engage in discussions around proposed changes.

- Contribute to documentation by documenting architectural decisions, best practices, and lessons learned

- Attend training as required to meet Oracle and CFS compliance and regulatory standards.

- Other duties as assigned

General Qualifications

The candidate will:

- Explore and learn multiple, cutting-edge technologies in the cloud industry

- Solve technical problems communicate effectively in a team environment

- Demonstrate software engineering best practices

- Self-motivated

- Advance automation

- Assimilate and apply new technologies

- Work with remote, global teams as well as individually

- Produce documentation for application engineers in support of developed work

Preferred Qualifications

An ideal candidate will have expertise with:

- Linux development (Oracle Linux)

- Containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)

- CI/CD (Jenkins and GitLab CI)

- Cloud computing platform (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Services)

- Programming and scripting languages (Python and bash)

- git version-control and collaboration (GitLab)

- Issue tracking and collaboration (Jira and Confluence)

Following Qualifications, Skills, and Experience are a plus

- Certifications in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure are a plus (Architect, Infrastructure, Database, Foundations)

- Terraform or other IaC coding skills (e.g. Ansible, Otter, Puppet)

- Experience in developing RESTful API microservices based on Python, Docker, and Kubernetes.

- Experience with Prometheus and Grafana or other market-leading Monitoring solutions (e.g. Nagios, Zabbix, Splunk, Datadog, ThousandEyes)

- Good Knowledge of Computer Networking (e.g. OSI layers, HTTP, DNS, TCP/IP, DHCP, Routers, Gateways, Subnets)

- REST API usage