Principal Site Reliability / DevOps Engineer - Exascale Cloud Service - Oracle

**Job Description** **Oracle Exadata Database team** is building a new cloud native, Autonomous, multi-tenant, database optimized, smart storage cloud service. This service is expected to scale across thousands of tenants. It is based on the successful Exadata platform. This cost-effective storage solution is engineered for highest performance and availability to run variety of workloads. We are hiring senior developers for this exciting team to build the service to power Autonomous database offerings in Oracle Cloud and Cloud at customer. We offer unique opportunities for smart, hands-on engineers with the expertise and passion to solve difficult problems in distributed highly available services and virtualized infrastructure. In this role, you will streamline delivery by optimizing practices, improving communications and collaborations, and creating automation. Your job is to design and implement strategies for application code and infrastructure that allows for continuous integration, continuous testing, continuous delivery, and continuous monitoring and feedback. You will proactively seek ways to incorporate new/creative ideas and methodologies into automation efforts by keeping abreast of current methodologies, technologies and tool. The role provides a mixture of production ownership and development. You will solve challenging technical problems, identify improvements and work on implementing your recommendations. **In this role you will:** + Build new monitoring/administration solutions including architecture, provisioning, configuration, deployment, and patching of network components + React to production deficiencies by continuously implementing automation, self-healing, and real-time monitoring to production systems + Conduct periodic on call duties + Solve complex and difficult problems and build automation to prevent problem recurrence + Participate in cloud service capacity planning and demand forecasting, software performance analysis and system tuning. + Partner with distributed teams in prototyping new solutions + Stay informed of new technologies + Innovate **Required Qualification:** 7+ years of software development experience a distributed systems environment, preferably in the cloud + BS or MS degree in Computer Science, or equivalent experience + Proficient with scripting skills (for example Shell, Perl and Python); and programming languages (for example C/C++/Java/Python etc) + Strong experience with Continuous integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) using tools like GIT/Bit Bucket, TeamCity, Artifactory, jira, Phabricator and Octopus or equivalent + Strong knowledge of different development environments (Git, Atlassian tools: JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket) + Good knowledge on containerization using Docker/Kubernetes + Experience with configuration management tools + Experience with monitoring tools + Expertise in designing, analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems. + Systematic problem solving approach, combined with a strong sense of ownership and drive. + Possess a passion for technical leadership and mentoring + Possess strong verbal and written communication skills 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. Disclaimer: **Certain US customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization and occupational health mandates.** **Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only** US: Hiring Range: from $97,400 to $199,500 per annum. May be eligible for bonus and equity. Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business. Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity. Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following: 1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion 2. Short term disability and long term disability 3. Life insurance and AD&D 4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child) 5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts 6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits 7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match 8. Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation. 9. 11 paid holidays 10. Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours. 11. Paid parental leave 12. Adoption assistance 13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan 14. Financial planning and group legal 15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted. **About Us** As a world leader in cloud solutions, Oracle uses tomorrow's technology to tackle today's problems. True innovation starts with diverse perspectives and various abilities and backgrounds. When everyone's voice is heard, we're inspired to go beyond what's been done before. It's why we're committed to expanding our inclusive workforce that promotes diverse insights and perspectives. We've partnered with industry-leaders in almost every sector-and continue to thrive after 40+ years of change by operating with integrity. Oracle careers open the door to global opportunities where work-life balance flourishes. We offer a highly competitive suite of employee benefits designed on the principles of parity and consistency. We put our people first with flexible medical, life insurance and retirement options. We also encourage employees to give back to their communities through our volunteer programs. We're committed to including people with disabilities at all stages of the employment process. If you require accessibility assistance or accommodation for a disability at any point, let us know by calling +1 888 404 2494, option one. **Disclaimer:** Oracle is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer*. 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