Site Reliability Developer 4

Oracle•Nashville, TN

11d

About The Position

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. Design and develop designs, architectures, standards, and methods for large-scale distributed systems. Facilitate service capacity planning and demand forecasting, software performance analysis, and system tuning. We are seeking a highly skilled Site Reliability Engineer with expertise in Database administration and strong development capabilities. You will be responsible for engineering and operational management of a massively scaled Oracle database fleet, troubleshooting staging/production environments, and ensuring high availability of services. This role is ideal for someone who thrives on solving operational challenges through code and automation while enhancing system reliability, scalability, and efficiency. As an SRE, you will work closely with cross-functional teams, providing technical leadership, handling escalations, and taking ownership of operational service delivery. We are aggressively building high scale public cloud technologies from the ground up Compute, Storage, Networking, Governance, Database, and Load Balancing Services. If you’re a database engineer with expertise and passion in solving difficult problems for highly available services at massive scale, we are currently seeking Oracle Database Engineer Specialists. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to: Provide all activities related to the engineering and operational management of a massively scaled Oracle database fleet Project long-range requirements for database management and design in conjunction with other service owners in the Oracle Cloud ecosystem Conduct quality control and auditing of databases to ensure accurate and appropriate use of data Design, implement and maintain complex databases, access methods, access time, devise allocation, validation checks, organization, protection and security Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) combines the elasticity and utility of public cloud with the granular control, security, and predictability of on-premises infrastructure to deliver high-performance, high availability and cost-effective infrastructure services. The Oracle Database team supports all OCI software engineering teams. Every new OCI service and every new OCI region increases the number of databases we’re responsible for. These scaling challenges demand both deep Oracle Database Administration skills and aggressive leveraging of Oracle technologies and engineering. As a member of this team, database availability, performance and customer satisfaction will be your top objectives. Site Reliability Engineer will spend a significant amount of their time doing operational and reactive work related to the maintenance of our production databases. When not working on operational issues, the Database Engineer is working on engineering tasks such as automation, self-healing monitors and other efforts to improve operational excellence and database stability. The ideal Database Engineering candidate has a deep understanding of Oracle Database technologies as well as experience with scripting and automation If you’re a self-motivated database engineer with expertise and passion in solving difficult problems for highly available services at massive scale, then THIS is the right place for you! This role requires participation in on-call rotation.

Requirements

Possess knowledge of performing detailed performance analysis, tuning and diagnostics for Oracle 19c Databases
Possess leadership experience to assure appropriate changes, upgrades, and enhancements are made based on the technical analysis
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field work
Eight or more years of experience in Oracle Database Engineering
Deep understanding and expertise in database management features
Excellent problem solving, critical thinking, and communication skills
Ability to work in an extremely fast paced and challenging environment
Excellent command of written and spoken English

Responsibilities

Provide all activities related to the engineering and operational management of a massively scaled Oracle database fleet
Project long-range requirements for database management and design in conjunction with other service owners in the Oracle Cloud ecosystem
Conduct quality control and auditing of databases to ensure accurate and appropriate use of data
Design, implement and maintain complex databases, access methods, access time, devise allocation, validation checks, organization, protection and security
Work with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team with the 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 premier 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 complex 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 affect of product architecture decisions on distributed systems.
Professional curiosity and a desire to a develop deep understanding of services and technologies.

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