Job Description

Detailed Description:

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 world-class 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 sophisticated 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 effect of product architecture decisions on distributed systems. Professional curiosity and a desire to a develop deep understanding of services and technologies.A BS or MS in Computer Science, or equivalent. Identifies and implements complex solutions to knowledge of server hardware and software configuration, networking, standard internet services, scripting languages, cloud computing patterns, technology security and compliance. Experience running large scale customer facing web services. Identifies and implements complex solutions to understanding of load balancing technologies and experience with development in programming languages, databases and big data stores, and container technologies. Work involves defining and documenting technical architecture of complex and highly scalable products. A minimum of 8+ years experience of running large scale customer facing web services.

Career Level - IC4

Responsibilities

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 (Shell, Perl and Python); and programming languages C/C++/Java/Python
• 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
• 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