Devops Engineer

Job description:

Oracle Full Stack DR Engineering (DevOps team) is focused on maximizing service quality, reliability, and availability for our Disaster Recovery management service offerings across global Oracle data centers. This team has a unique opportunity to create software architectures that fundamentally changes the way businesses innovate, work and adopt technology. Unlike traditional clouds that offer bare-bones virtual Linux machines, the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure offers the entire Oracle Product stack: applications, middleware, database, servers, and storage - across multiple data centers worldwide. The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure hosts business-critical applications that must withstand all outages and still scale to service customers worldwide. Oracle leverages hardware and software to remove the limitations of technology and creates fully integrated, agile, intelligent business applications across social, mobile, cloud and big data technologies. Oracle MAA, Maximum Availability Architecture Group is leading these key initiatives at Oracle.

This role provides a mixture of Quality engineering and production platform ownership with dedicated time to build required automation. You will solve challenging technical problems, identify improvements and work on implementing your recommendations. You will also work directly with high level developers on projects and work to blur the lines between traditional system operations and QA support. You will not only own the end-to-end quality of the product but would also leverage your expertise to help DevOps team in troubleshooting key Oracle Cloud services, platforms, and infrastructure, and issues related to reliability, scalability, resilience, security, and performance. Quality assurance team, being the first users, play a critical role in the success of the product/feature, more so for a technology platform like ours, which must be available 7x24, will be used in many different ways and expectations around quality/deployments are really high.

In this role, you will:

Write functional, integration and regression test plans

Automate tests using scripting languages to a great extent and execute which ever test cannot be automated manually

Debug and report test failures, help identify root cause of failures whenever possible while performing highly complex analysis, which would generally include multiple distributed components

Service Ownership - You will be part of the DevOps engineering team, whose mission is full stack ownership of Full Stack DR Service

Responsible for end-to-end quality and operability of Full Stack DR Service

Help DevOps to troubleshoot critical service issues

Serve as part of a 24x7 On Call rotation in support of the service infrastructure life cycle

Have a professional curiosity and a desire to a develop deep understanding of Oracle Cloud services and technologies

Educate yourself and others on anything that helps service teams more quickly and easily build, test, deploy & run their services to be more reliable

Utilize a deep understanding of service deployment in Oracle Cloud and the dependencies required to troubleshoot issues and define mitigations

Test Automation - You will have a clear understanding of automation and orchestration principles and will be eager to automate, wherever possible

Understand end-to-end tuning needs, optimizing resource utilization, as load patterns fluctuate

Work closely with several multi-functional Oracle Cloud operations team to quickly troubleshoot and resolve customer issues within the published SLAs

The ideal candidate will exhibit strong technical skills and experience in several of the following areas. Demonstration of clear expertise in some key areas is critical to succeed in this role

Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science, 8+ years of software QA/DevOps experience

Experience in testing features and services for highly complex, distributed transaction processing systems

Hands on experience with Test Development Infrastructure such as TestNG, Junit, Selenium, API testing with Postman

Infrastructure automation through Terraform, Chef, Ansible, Puppet or similar

Knowledge of cloud compute technologies, storage, network monitoring, OS image build

Experience with CI/CD pipelines including VCS (git, svn, etc.)

Should possess very good knowledge of scripting languages like Perl, Python, Shell and possess strong experience of testing under Linux environments

Experience in testing large scale distributed services / applications

Experience in developing scripts to automate software deployments and installations

Experience in a 24×7 high-availability production environment

Excellent troubleshooting skills for critical application, database, storage, networking and system administration issues

Experience working with fault tolerant, highly available, high throughput, distributed, scalable systems

Aptitude to be a good team player and the desire to learn and implement new Cloud technologies as needed

Excellent organizational, verbal, and written communication skills

Good understanding of Agile software development principles including using common tools such as JIRA

Oracle is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans status or any other characteristic protected by law.

Responsibilities:

As a member of the software engineering division, you will take an active role in the definition and evolution of standard practices and procedures. You will be responsible for defining and developing software for tasks associated with the developing, designing and debugging of software applications or operating systems.