Exadata DBA

Are you interested in the exciting challenges of building and operating large-scale distributed infrastructure for the cloud? Oracles Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) National Security Sector Group is building its next generation of Cloud IaaS/PaaS/SaaS technologies that operate at high scale in a broadly distributed multi-tenant environment. Our mission is to provide our customers with an enterprise-level cloud infrastructure platform that delivers unmatched reliability, scalability and performance for mission-critical databases, applications and workloads.

The Autonomous Database Team is responsible for building the cloud service framework powering various Oracle Autonomous Database cloud services, including Autonomous Data Warehouse (ADW) and Autonomous Transaction Processing (ATP). The framework automates deployment, scaling and management of databases in the cloud. It is built on top of Oracle's Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Layer.

The autonomous database cloud service framework features APIs to handle all lifecycle management operations of databases. It also performs operations autonomously based on internal and external events. The team has the unique opportunity to make significant contributions to the full stack of Oracle technology, from database kernel to cloud service platform and to customer-facing portals.

As an SRE you will be responsible for defining and deploying autonomous database services with deep focus on architecture, production operations, capacity planning, performance management, deployment, and release engineering. You will work with multiple cross-functional teams helping deliver new and outstanding experiences to our stakeholders while ensuring reliability and performance.

This role will support Oracles Government customers.

We are a dynamic and enthusiastic team with great emphasis on go-getters and proactive individuals.

Overview from oracle.com with links to other collateral:
https://cloud.oracle.com/en_US/datawarehouse
https://www.oracle.com/database/autonomous-database/feature.html

In this role you will need to:

• Act as a point of escalation for incidents and other issues arising within the region, for the cloud database services.
• Operates and performs maintenance to cloud database services running within the region.
• Deploys code and executes other changes within the region.
• Take ownership of the implementation and production operations of a wide array of core system platform solutions
• React to production deficiencies by continuously implementing automation, self-healing, and real-time monitoring to production systems
• Ensures thorough documentation of incidents through company-standard reporting methods.
• Stay informed of cloud infrastructure stacks
• Drives and actively participates in the resolution of complex technical issues spanning various services.

Preferred Qualifications:

• At least a Bachelor’s degree, in Computer Science, MIS or another technical field, or equivalent work experience.
• Solid experience with Linux.
• Experience troubleshooting complex software and/or networking issues.
• Strong understanding of cloud concepts and platforms.
• Experience in cloud technical support, operations, NOC or similar is preferred, but not required.
• Expert level experience, understanding, implementation and troubleshooting of Oracle Database technology including RAC, Dataguard, ASM, RMAN preferred.
• Development skills utilizing Python, shell, SQL
• Expert knowledge and in-depth experience of Oracle Engineered systems and subsystems, especially Exadata
• Ability to troubleshoot and resolve complex hardware/software issues, restore environments to an operational state, perform root cause analysis and provide forward thinking mitigation strategies
• Strong communication and analytical skills
• Familiarity with security practices in web application delivery and general knowledge of network topology
• Experience working with government customers is preferred, but not required.
• Proven ability to quickly learn new technical domains and then train others.