Senior System Administrator

Oracle • Santa Clara, CA

66d

About The Position

Are you interested in building large-scale distributed networking solutions for the cloud? Do you love the idea of working in an environment with the excitement of a start-up, but the financial backing of a Fortune 100 company? You'll be joining a fast-growing venture that offers a ton of autonomy and a lot of variety. This is a unique opportunity to work with smart people to solve complex problems in distributed systems, networking, multi-tenant Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), and Software Defined Networking (SDN) operating at massive scale. Customers want higher availability, more throughput, better security, lower latency, reduced jitter, and lower overall cost. We help Oracle build the best-in-class cloud offering by providing the physical infrastructure and software to test and qualify networking hardware, configuration, design, and tooling. We build labs and tools to test physical hardware and simulate large-scale networks and designs. We own top-level network integration testing ensuring our network comes together flawlessly and performs as designed. We are looking for a Senior System Administrator who will manage a high-end network testing lab at scale, optic and optical engineering testing efforts, interface with Network teams to contribute to the automation framework to enable lab as a service. You should be comfortable at building complex distributed systems that interact with end users at one end and network infrastructure at the other. Prior experience in coding is required and experience in networking is a desired. You should value simplicity and scale, work comfortably in a collaborative, agile environment, and be excited to learn. Your excellent judgment and strong communication skills will be invaluable when defining the roadmap for your areas of ownership. You'll also coach and mentor junior software engineers as you build the next generation of lab-as-a-service. A great lab manager and system administrator will make all the difference for our team by creating a self-service lab-as-a-service and enabling the business. Are you passionate about architecting, designing, developing, testing, and delivering a great product? Do you thrive in a fast-paced environment, and want to be an integral part of a truly great team? Come join us!

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience as a System Administrator, lab manager, and lead datacenter technician.
• Experience managing a physical lab at scale and automation interactions.
• Experience working with data center equipment: racks, PDUs, patch panels, cabling, and optics.
• Strong understanding of Linux systems and x86 servers.
• Experience with configuration management tools (Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Salt Stack etc.).
• Experience with building and troubleshooting networks, TCP/IP, switching and routing.
• Experience managing code repositories and version control.
• Excellent organizational, verbal, and written communication skills.
• Excellent judgment to influence product roadmap direction, features, and priorities.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Hardware Engineering or related field.

Responsibilities

• Manage a high-end network testing lab at scale.
• Oversee optic and optical engineering testing efforts.
• Interface with Network teams to contribute to the automation framework.
• Build complex distributed systems that interact with end users and network infrastructure.
• Coach and mentor junior software engineers.

Benefits

• Flexible medical options.
• Life insurance.
• Retirement options.
• Volunteer programs.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Publishing Industries
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees