Senior Data Engineer (Exadata)
About The Position
The Senior Data Engineer – Exadata Platform Engineering is responsible for the administration, maintenance, performance optimization, and lifecycle management of Oracle Exadata engineered systems, including both On-Premises Exadata and Exadata Cloud Services (ExaCS). This role focuses on Exadata infrastructure and cloud environments. The position ensures the availability, performance, scalability, and security of mission-critical, large-scale platform environments while providing operational support, capacity planning, automation, monitoring, and troubleshooting across hybrid cloud and on-premises environments. This role is responsible for the administration, engineering, support, and continuous improvement of Oracle Exadata engineered systems and supporting platform technologies. Responsibilities include platform design and implementation, infrastructure analysis, performance optimization, system monitoring, capacity planning, patching, troubleshooting, documentation, operational support, and lifecycle management. Candidates for this role are expected to build quality reliable secure automation into all platform services while evaluating emerging Exadata, cloud, monitoring, and automation technologies. This includes developing automation solutions, standardizing operational processes, creating reusable administrative utilities, and driving continuous improvements that enhance system availability, performance, scalability, and operational efficiency. The position serves as a technical leader and subject matter expert, influencing Exadata platform strategies, best practices, and future technology adoption. You will enjoy the flexibility to telecommute from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.
Requirements
- High School Diploma/GED
- 5+ years of hands-on experience administering Oracle Exadata engineered systems in production environments
- 5+ years of experience supporting Exadata infrastructure, including storage cells, compute nodes, operating systems, and networking
- 5+ years of experience monitoring and optimizing Exadata environments using features such as Smart Scan, Storage Indexes, Smart Flash Cache, and IORM
- 5+ years of experience with Exadata capacity planning, storage management, backup infrastructure, and high availability/disaster recovery platforms
- 4+ years of experience troubleshooting complex Exadata infrastructure issues
- 4+ years of experience automating administrative processes using Ansible, Python, Shell scripting, or similar tools
- 4+ years of experience with Incident, Problem, and Change Management processes in enterprise production environments
Nice To Haves
- Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience
- 1+ years of experience with ZDLRA administration would be an added benefit
- Experience supporting Exadata Cloud Service (ExaCS), OCI, Oracle Database@Azure, or Oracle Database@AWS environments strongly preferred
- Experience with OEM Administration would be an added benefit
- Experience in ticketing tools such as ServiceNow
Responsibilities
- Administer and maintain Oracle Exadata Database Machine, ZDLRA, and Exadata Cloud environments, including compute nodes, storage cells, operating systems, networking, and supporting platform components
- Manage Exadata infrastructure performance, capacity planning, storage utilization, and growth forecasting to ensure platform scalability and reliability
- Configure, monitor, and optimize Exadata-specific infrastructure technologies, including Smart Scan, Storage Indexes, Smart Flash Cache, and IORM
- Administer and support Exadata networking, backup infrastructure, and disaster recovery platform components
- Monitor system health, performance, and availability using Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM), including alert management, reporting, and operational support
- Support Exadata deployments, migrations, and platform operations across on-premises, OCI, Exadata Cloud Service (ExaCS), KVM, OCI@Azure, and OCI@AWS environments
- Develop and maintain automation solutions for platform administration, monitoring, patching, and operational processes using Ansible, Python, and Shell scripting
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex Exadata platform issues
- Participate in incidents, problems, change, and on-call support processes to ensure platform stability, availability, resiliency, and operational excellence
Benefits
- comprehensive benefits package
- incentive and recognition programs
- equity stock purchase
- 401k contribution
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
High school or GED
