Principal Site Reliability DevOps Engineer
Oracle
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Principal Site Reliability DevOps Engineer at Oracle
Are you a creative person who loves a challenge? Solve the complex puzzles you’ve been dreaming of as our Engineer. If you have a passion for innovation in tech, we want you on our team! Thrive in this crucial automation role. Oracle is a technology leader that’s changing how the world does business. We’re looking for an experienced and self-motivated person. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position.
Come and join us! Building off our Cloud momentum, Oracle has formed a new organization - Oracle Health. This team will focus on product deployment, sustainability, troubleshooting and product strategy for Oracle Health, while building out a complete platform supporting modernized, automated healthcare. This is a net new line of business, constructed with an entrepreneurial spirit that promotes an energetic and creative environment. We are unencumbered and will need your contribution to make it a world class engineering center with the focus on excellence.
As a Principal Site Reliability DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for defining and deploying key 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 collaborators while ensuring reliability and performance.
Responsibilities
- Take ownership of the architecture, analysis, design, implementation and production operations of a wide array of Core System Framework solutions.
- React to production deficiencies by continuously implementing automation, self-healing, and real-time monitoring to production systems.
- Be a strong contributor to supporting and development of platform services including architecture, provisioning, configuration, deployment, and support.
- Partner with the distributed team in prototyping new platform services.
- Stay informed of new technologies and innovate.
- Solve complex problems related to infrastructure cloud services and build automation to prevent problem recurrence.
- Design, write, and deploy software to improve the availability, scalability, and efficiency of Oracle products and services.
- Develop designs, architectures, standards, and methods for large-scale distributed systems.
- Facilitate service capacity planning and demand forecasting, software performance analysis, and system tuning and performance.
Key Requirements/Experience
- The ability to acquire & maintain a federal security clearance vital for this role, which requires you to be a US citizen.
- Developing/operating large scale distributed services / applications.
- Container administration and development applying Kubernetes, Docker, Mesos, or similar.
- Infrastructure automation through Terraform, Chef, Ansible, Puppet, Packer or similar.
- Experience with Cloud Orchestration frameworks, development and SRE support of these systems.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines including VCS (git, svn, etc), Gitlab Runners, Jenkins, Rundeck.
- Working with or supporting production, test, and development environments for medium to large user environments.
- Experience in developing scripts to automate software deployments and installations using PowerShell or Bash.
- Knowledge of cloud compute technologies, network monitoring, data processing and analytics.
- Experience with a modern programming language such as Java, Python, or C++ or equivalent.
- Experience working with fault tolerant, highly available, high throughput, distributed, scalable systems.
- Experience operating services in one of the major Clouds such as AWS, OCI, Azure, etc.
Compensation & Benefits
Oracle offers a competitive hiring range in USD from $97,500 to $199,500 per year, with potential eligibility for bonus and equity. The specific placement within this range depends on knowledge, skills, experience, and market conditions. A comprehensive benefits package is provided, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) with company match, paid time off (flexible vacation for salaried employees, accrued for others), 11 paid holidays, paid sick leave, parental leave, adoption assistance, and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
About Oracle
Oracle is a technology leader bringing together data, infrastructure, applications, and expertise to power industry innovations and life-saving care, with AI embedded across its products and services. The company is committed to fostering a diverse workforce, promoting opportunities for all with competitive benefits and supporting employee contributions to their communities.
Key skills/competency
- Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
- DevOps
- Cloud Architecture
- Automation
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- Distributed Systems
- CI/CD
- Production Operations
- System Performance
How to Get Hired at Oracle
- Research Oracle Health's mission: Study Oracle Health's commitment to modernized, automated healthcare and how this Principal Site Reliability DevOps Engineer role directly contributes to their platform.
- Tailor your resume for SRE/DevOps: Highlight extensive experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps practices, and cloud infrastructure, emphasizing quantifiable achievements in system reliability and automation.
- Showcase advanced technical expertise: Emphasize proficiency with Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines (Gitlab, Jenkins), and modern programming languages (Java, Python) relevant to Oracle's cloud environment.
- Prepare for architectural and problem-solving interviews: Be ready to discuss designing scalable distributed systems, troubleshooting complex production issues, and implementing robust automation to prevent recurrence.
- Address US citizenship and security clearance: Clearly understand and be prepared to discuss the mandatory US citizenship requirement and the process for acquiring a federal security clearance for this Oracle position.
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