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Job title : Principal Database Site Reliability Engineer
Job Description
Building off our Cloud momentum, Oracle has formed a new organization - Oracle Health Applications & Infrastructure. This team will focus on product development 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 a focus on excellence. The addition of this new, non-billable position based in India within Oracle's Health and AI Database Services Team is a significant step forward in improving our healthcare services in the dynamic multi-tenant cloud environment.
The Oracle Healthcare platform and infrastructure team can provide you the opportunity to build and operate a suite of massive-scale, integrated cloud services in a broadly distributed, multi-tenant cloud environment. OHAI is committed to providing the best in cloud products that meet the needs of our customers who are tackling some of the world's biggest challenges. We offer unique opportunities for smart, hands-on engineers with the expertise and passion to solve difficult problems in distributed highly available services and virtualized infrastructure. At every level, our engineers have a significant technical and business impact designing and building innovative new systems to power our customers business-critical applications. Healthcare platform is an exciting team working at the intersection of infrastructure and applications where we are leveraging OCI to transform some of the largest Healthcare applications in the industry. We are making healthcare better for everyone. To support the vision, we are building a platform that manages end-to-end lifecycle, from provisioning to upgrade to terminate; and provides a self-service cloud experience to the customer. We are looking for passionate Site Reliability Engineers who possess Oracle Database Deep End-to-end Troubleshooting skills, Oracle Cloud, Oracle Autonomous Database, Data Management (SQL Performance management, Partitioning, Compression), Exadata expertise, Oracle GoldenGate expertise, and high-scale Database issue analysis skillsets, along with expertise in any of these skills: DevOps, PLSQL, and Python.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree/master's degree in Information Technology, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Software, Electronics, Operational Research, or Computer System Engineering.
- Ability to work in a collaborative, cross-functional team environment.
- Strong grasp of Computer Science concepts.
- Experience in building highly available services, possessing knowledge of common service-oriented design patterns and service-to-service communication protocols.
- Experience with production operations and best practices for deploying quality code in production and troubleshooting issues when they arise.
- 8+ years of experience as an Oracle DBA, focusing on shipping scalable, cloud-native distributed systems.
- 2+ years of experience and working knowledge in scripting languages like Python, PLSQL, Perl, and/or Shell Scripting.
- 2+ years of experience in the development, management, and organization of Golden Gate replication.
- 2+ years of experience in development in PLSQL.
- Ability to effectively communicate technical ideas verbally and in writing (technical proposals, design specifications, architecture diagrams, and presentations).
- Understanding of the end-to-end configuration, technical dependencies, and overall behavioral characteristics of production services.
- Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaaC) tools like Shepherd and Terraform.
- Knowledge of CI/CD Platforms and components such as Jenkins.
- Knowledge of orchestration tools like Ansible and Chef.
- Knowledge of version control using Git.
- Experience in Maximum Availability Architecture & Best Practices for Oracle Database & Exadata.
- Understanding of REST Architecture and JSON is a plus.
- Building and managing Linux OS systems with a good understanding of how the Linux kernel works (IO, Network, etc.) and the ability to read and understand source code.
Skills: Site Reliability Engineers with experience in:
- Oracle Database
- Oracle Grid Infrastructure, ASM & RAC
- Oracle Exadata
- Oracle Cloud
- Oracle Autonomous Database
- Oracle Data Management (Performance Tuning, Partitioning, Compression)
- Oracle Golden Gate
- DevOps Tools
- Python/PLSQL/Perl/Unix-Shell
- GitHub
- Oracle Enterprise Manager
Career Level - IC4
Responsibilities
Oracle's Health and AI Database Services Team is actively seeking a reliable Cloud Architect to join our dynamic team. As a Senior Site Reliability Engineering, you will play a pivotal role in our Database Infrastructure team. This position is based in India and presents an exciting opportunity to contribute to the improvement of healthcare services within a dynamic multi-tenant cloud environment. As a Senior Site Reliability Engineering, you will be instrumental in achieving our mission to enhance healthcare services. Your key responsibilities include:
- Contribute to strategic projects outlined in our roadmap, focusing on transitioning on-premises databases to Oracle Cloud.
- Lead efforts to migrate databases to the Autonomous Database, ensuring a seamless transition for optimal performance.
- Implement advanced strategies like partitioning and advanced compression to enhance overall database efficiency.
- Work collaboratively with multiple teams, actively participating in the execution of roadmap projects.
- Apply your skill set and hands-on experience in Oracle Cloud and Data Management.
- Act as a trusted technical advisor to solve complex Infrastructure and DevOps challenges.
- Contribute to making our infrastructure simple, secure, reliable, and easy to operate.
- Define and develop monitoring infrastructure criteria (SLIs, SLOs).
- Solve complex and difficult problems and build automation to prevent problem recurrence.
- Participate in incident management, operational/security maintenance, software performance analysis, and system tuning.
- Drives and actively participates in the resolution of complex technical issues.
- Drive Projects to improve the availability, scalability, security, and efficiency of Oracle products and services.
- Contribute to the growth of the team by mentoring new associates, facilitating knowledge transfer and team development
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