Senior Member of Technical Staff

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.




 Basic Qualifications: 

5+ years of software  development or automation experience in a Linux based environment 

4+ years of experience with Linux shell scripting, and  Python 

Proficient with Linux based build and analysis tools (e.g. make, scons/cons, bazel)

Familiarity with  CICD  environments

Familiarity with Agile Development

Proficient with commonly used networking protocols such as TCP/IP, HTTP

Familiarity with docker containers

Familiarity with databases, NoSQL systems,  storage and distributed persistence technologies. 

 Troubleshooting and performance tuning skills .

Bachelors in computer science and Engineering or related engineering fields

 Preferred Qualifications: 

Cloud technology related certifications

Familiarity with C/C++ or Java

Masters / PhD degree in Computer Science or related engineering fields

Career Level - IC3

Responsibilities 

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.

As  Senior Site Reliability Engineer in the Object Storage  team you will be required to:

 Lead/mentor/guide team  and drive projects end to end

 Monitor  our service and proactively debug operational issues.

Work with internal and external teams to diagnose  performance issues .

 Automate  and maintain build and test systems including systems for performance and scalability testing.

Improve efficiency of the  deployment  processes across a  fast-growing number of regions  through automation and scale improvements to tools and dashboards.

Participate in our  on-call rotation  and resolve complex distributed issues through debugging, communication and collaboration across multiple SRE teams across OCI.

Improve our operational capabilities by developing  runbooks, alarming, and building tools  and documentation that enable customers to self-diagnose problems.

 Deploy our service in new regions  and help to automate this process.

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