Principal Site Reliability Engineer - Database Cloud

We are looking for dynamic and forward-looking engineers to join our database cloud engineering team. Candidate must have Oracle Database Administration experience as a Site Reliability Engineer or DBA on large production environments. Understand the end-to-end configuration, technical dependencies, and overall behavioral characteristics of large-scale implementation of Oracle database. Engineers with good Oracle Application DBA experience will be added advantage to the role with experience in Oracle E-biz suite, Oracle Fusion Apps or Netsuite

Responsibility includes development and implementation of critical test cases with focus on security, resiliency, scale, and performance. Partner with development teams and work towards addressing and fixing production issues on cloud, defining and implementing product enhancements.Collaborate with various cloud operations teams to understand the production issues and work towards to create a reproducible test cases in the lab environment to present to the development teams.

 Detailed Responsibilities 

 Certification of Database products for cloud integration 

Design & Develop Highly Automated Multi-Tier/Multi-Stack Stress Test Suites/Workloads for Testing and Certifications

Conduct extensive testing of Oracle database HA, data protection and disaster recovery.

Implement and validate all Maximum Availability Architecture and how these helps to prevent, detect, tolerate and repair from various outages.

Work on large engineered cloud environments on OCI and EXaCS

Independently setup and configure large database environments with RAC, data-guard, and Oracle Goldengate.

Independently install, configure, patch and upgrade large database clusters on Linux

Develop test cases and configurations to simulate application/business critical workloads and usage scenarios.

Develop and Maintain Test Specs/Plans/Methodologies and then Design, and Implement End-to-End Test Suites/Frameworks simulating Real-world production systems.

Extensive upgrade and Patching testing while simulating production like load scenarios.

 Research and Development 

Reviewing production issues and identifying gaps in the test suite and implementing these as test cases. This may include DB Schema Design/Normalisation, Data generation, Load generation and Application/Business Logic programming in Oracle SQL, PL-SQL, Perl/Shell/Python and JDBC/JMS or Python.

Carry-out independent research and review new functionality/features in nextgen Oracle Databasereleases and other products.

Performance Tuning and pro-active measurements of future planning.

Backup & Recovery Strategy.

Log and track product defects (bugs), Collaborating closely with Development teams to resolve problems encountered in these Multi-tier test simulations.

Develop Automation tools, Simulation Apps and Re-usable Framework for efficient System/Stress Testing.

Participate in Product Feature Review, Certification experiments and User Document reviews.

Research and acquire skills on new technologies as needed from time to time

 Technical qualifications 

 Minimum Requirements for this job role 

10-14 years of Oracle database administration experience on large production environments

Database hands on skills especially around database, system and administration

GoldenGate setup, administration and tuning

RAC setup and administration

Strong Linux/UNIXOS understanding including OS Architecture & Internals (Networking, File Systems, Process/Memory Monitoring/Tuning/Linux Virtualisation etc).

Programming/Scripting skills in one or more of below languages is required.

Scripting - Perl / Shell / Python, Microservices/REST APIs

Programming - Oracle SQL, PL/SQL, Java/JDBC, Python

B.E, M.E./MS in CS/ECE/EE, MCA from Reputed Engineering Colleges preferred.

 Preferred Requirements for this job role 

Architect and administrating large Oracle database systems

Data Guard administration and tuning

Experience on any ERP applications like Oracle E-biz suite, Oracle Fusion Apps or Netsuite

Experience in developing test-cases,automation and orchestration

Career Level - IC4

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.

Skills:
DATA GAURD,Exadata,Golden Gate,Linux OS,Oracle DBA,Scripting Skills