Storage System Testing Engineer

System and Stress Test Group

The Database System and Stress Test group in the Database Organization designs and develops scalable and reusable applications to effectively assess end-to-end scalability, high-availability, reliability and performance (S.H.A.R.P) of Oracles flagship Database product.

The Engineered Systems and Cloud Services Team within the S.H.A.R.P group designs and develops cloud scale software applications and benchmarks for Oracles Exadata Database Machine which is the world’s fastest machine to run Oracle Database. Exadata Systems provide the best-in-class compute, storage and network infrastructure, engineered together as a backbone platform of Oracle Cloud to support hundreds of thousands of mission critical and high performance systems – including Oracle Autonomous Database.

Oracle Exadata’s Cloud and AI powered storage management technology scales seamlessly across thousands of disks with microsecond latency, offering best in-class storage platform for running database and general purpose IO applications.

We are looking for systems engineers who are willing to take on cutting edge Cloud and AI powered storage technologies to tap the full potential of Oracle Engineered Systems and Cloud Services.

Typical Day of a S.H.A.R.P Engineer

A typical day of S.H.A.R.P engineer includes responsibilities as detailed below :

1. Work closely with core development, sustaining engineering, product support, release & program management and product management teams to design new system tests and benchmarks.

2. Implement complete and scalable benchmarks that represent real world scenarios.

3. Evolve shift-left strategies to move benchmarks closer to early stages in the release cycle.

4. Define processes and innovate continuously to automate complex systems and benchmarks.

5. Design and develop benchmarks and automation for Exadata Cloud Service

6. Tune systems to run at scale and on edges identify breaking points at high scale – for example, what happens when a 90% utilized system with hundreds of cores is servicing millions of IOs per second to storage servers?

7. Mentor juniors, peers and co-workers across teams on new technologies and projects.

Candidate Requirements

A successful candidate for the position should satisfy the following requirements:

1. Previous working experience in any of the Storage Technologies including filesystems, volume managers, block device drivers, SCSI, iSCSI, NFS, and storage optimisations like snapshots, replication, encryption and security.

2. Familiar with Linux and virtual machines

3. Expertise in scripting with SHELL/PERL/PYTHON

4. Programming experience in C

5. Think cloud scale and orchestrate benchmarks for various Oracle cloud technologies.

6. BS/BTech/B.E/MS/MTech/MCA in CS/IT/EEE/ECE from reputed Engineering Colleges

7. Openness to learn, can-do attitude and a consistent output delivery.

Following optional requirements would be highly appreciated and considered:

1. In-depth knowledge of Linux device drivers and IO subsystem.

2. Experiene in debugging kernel crashdumps and live kernel analysis.

3. Exposure to performance and monitoring tools like D-Trace, e-BPF, Perf

4. Familiarity with build, development and automation tools like GIT/Maven, Jenkins etc.

5. Familiar with cloud CLI, automation tools and in-depth architecture of any one major CSP – Oracle Cloud (OCI) / MS Azure / GCP / AWS