Senior Site Reliability Developer 3

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

This role requires participation in on-call rotation.

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.

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

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, organization, 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
Bachelors 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 exciting environment
Excellent command of written and spoken English

As a member of the software engineering division, you will assist in defining and developing software for tasks associated with the developing, debugging or designing of software applications or operating systems. Provide technical leadership to other software developers. Specify, design, and implement modest changes to existing software architecture to meet changing needs.

Work is non-routine and very complex, involving the application of advanced technical/business skills in an area of specialization. Leading contributor individually and as a team member, providing direction and mentoring to others

The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) team can provide you the opportunity to build and operate a suite of substantial 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 inquisitive, 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.

Responsibilities

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 bold 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 massive scale, then THIS is the right place for you!

This role requires participation in on-call rotation.