Mission-Critical Database Availability Product Manager

Oracle•Redwood City, CA

About The Position

The Mission Critical Oracle Database Product Management team seeks a high-energy, experienced professional interested in working with like-minded people on high availability (HA), scalability, disaster recovery, continuous availability, and related topics. We look forward to working with you if you can augment the team’s strong database expertise with your experience. Do you have an eye for observability? Have you mastered chaos engineering? Did you free incident management from toil, automate it, or otherwise make the system you were responsible for more reliable? Have you managed cloud projects involving more than one cloud platform? Have you ever moved applications and databases into or across cloud platforms? Then we would like to hear from you! The team is comprised of a group of top-quality, high-energy, and highly experienced professionals, who handle the product management responsibilities for all the availability, data protection and scalability aspects involving the Oracle Database and the Oracle Database Cloud Services as well as the continuous availability of applications using those. Database products and functionalities that the team is directly responsible for include Data Guard, Active Data Guard, Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC), Automatic Storage Management and Oracle Clusterware as well as the HA interactions with Oracle Applications and Oracle Fusion Middleware, including Application Continuity. The team also manages all HA aspects related to deploying Oracle Databases in any Cloud. More details can be found at http://www.oracle.com/goto/availability .

Requirements

BS / MS in Computer Science or related technical degree; MBA desirable
Excellent written, communication / presentation, analytical, time management, and teamwork skills
Balanced mix of applications and database administration skills, along with relevant cloud experience
Experience in dealing with a broad spectrum of IT audience – ranging from CTO/CIO to database, systems, network, and storage administrators
Strong inter-personal skills – ability to effectively deal with various internal groups as well as external customers in high intensity situations

Responsibilities

Gather and validate input related to high availability, data protection as well as customer usage patterns from Oracle customers, Oracle Customer Support, Sales and Sales Consulting and write documents helping guide development
Drive the development and launch of Oracle systems and cloud services that integrate high performance software in an optimized hardware and cloud configuration to solve challenging problems related to continuous availability for applications while making sure that the product functionality being built is consistent with customer expectations and helps to establish significant market leadership for Oracle compared to competing products
Develop collateral such as technical and business briefs, success stories, data sheets, brochures, best practices and product presentations for Oracle’s HA technology and publish those on internal and external web sites
Maintain deep relationships with key customers; as the development advocate/sponsor for these customers, ensure their continued success with Oracle’s products and in turn cultivate the relationships to develop effective references
Evangelize Oracle’s availability and data protection features and help promote them by presenting at trade shows, customer sites, industry conferences, industry analyst meetings

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
Short term disability and long term disability
Life insurance and AD&D
Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
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.
11 paid holidays
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.
Paid parental leave
Adoption assistance
Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Financial planning and group legal
Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance