Job Description

Building off our Cloud momentum, Oracle has formed a new organization - Oracle Health Applications & Infrastructure. This team focuses 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 the focus on excellence. At Oracle Health, our mission is to improve healthcare and quality of life globally through better experience and easier access to health and research data for patients and healthcare providers.

This is an SRE role owns mission critical database lifecycle management projects including deep focus on Cloud architecture, OCI Fleet Automation, capacity planning,, cloud migrations , major/minor patching, OS upgrades, host migrations, and other projects. An ideal candidate will have a history of automating processes and migrating Oracle Databases to Cloud platforms including Exadata Cloud service and Autonomous Database platforms. This position will identify opportunities in OCI Fleet Level Administration, and mentor junior members of the team. An ideal candidate will be capable of managing multiple simultaneous projects and keeping them on schedule meeting program and customer requirements. As a member of the Database engineering division, you will take an active role in the definition and evolution of standard practices and procedures. Able to effectively communicate technical ideas verbally and in writing (technical proposals, design specs, architecture diagrams and presentations) • Understand the end-to-end configuration, technical dependencies, and overall behavioral characteristics of production services.You are experienced at 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 putting quality code in production and troubleshoot issues when they arise. You will play a role in defining and driving tasks associated with the support and operations of the Exadata in Oracle Cloud. The work is non-routine and can be very complex at times.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology or related field, or equivalent, relevant work experience

• At least 10+ years of experience as Oracle DBA, Site Reliability Engineer, or Oracle Database Architect.

• Ability to work in a collaborative, cross-functional team environment.

• Create and deliver standard methodologies recommendations, sample code, technical documents including research and prototyping (proof of concept) different aspect of Oracle DBaaS service

• Development Skills in PLSQL, Python, Perl and/or Shell Scripting

• Drives and actively participates in the resolution of complex technical issues spanning DBaaS (ExaCS/Autonomous) services and works towards ensuring highly scalable database service under strict SLAs by developing solutions to complex problems and incidents

• Managing production databases running on UNIX flavors (RHEL, OEL).

• Strong understanding of distributed computing, cloud concepts and platforms

• High availability & replication technologies (Data guard, Goldengate)

• Solve complex and difficult problems and build automation to prevent problem recurrence.

• Oracle Autonomous Database

• Very strong analytical skills to identify problems root cause

• Experience with Oracle databases including RAC, Data Guard, Oracle GI (clusterware, ASM), RMAN preferred.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Design, develop, troubleshoot, and debug programs & procedures for databases, applications, tools, networks etc.

• Understanding of REST Architecture and JSON is a plus

• Experience with Oracle Exadata & Oracle Autonomous Database strongly preferred.

• Experience in infrastructure automation through Terraform, Chef, Ansible, Puppet, Packer or similar is a plus

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines including VCS (git, svn, etc.), Gitlab Runners, Jenkins is a plus

Career Level - IC4

Responsibilities

• Ownership Scope – As an SRE, you will understand the end-to-end configuration, technical dependencies, and overall behavioral characteristics of the production services you own. In partnership with your Development partners, you will have the responsibility to ensure that services are designed and delivered to be mission critical with focus on security, resiliency, scale, and performance.

• Operations Engineering – You will understand and be able to communicate the scale, capacity, security, performance attributes and requirements of the services you own.

• Automation – You will have a clear understanding of automation and orchestration principles, and will be eager to automate, wherever and whenever the possibility arises, while simultaneously eliminating technical debt. Automation must be part of your DNA.Prevention - Once you have expertly resolved an issue, you will immediately work on how to more quickly resolve the problem next time, with the goal to eventually prevent the problem happening ever again

• Broad Interests - SREs are a rare mix of sysadmins and development Engineers, and as such have the ability to understand and explain the affect of product architecture decisions on the ability to run as distributed systems. They are driven by professional curiosity and a desire to a develop deep understanding of the their services and the technologies they depend upon.

• Represent SRE - Proactive, self-motivated, customer-focused, organized, and a good communicator. SREs can be expected to represent our team capabilities to other stakeholders.

• Work collaboratively with multiple teams, actively participating in the execution of roadmap projects.

Disclaimer:

Certain US customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization and occupational health mandates.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range: from $97,400 to $199,500 per annum. May be eligible for bonus and equity.

Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle’s differing products, industries and lines of business.

Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:

1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion

2. Short term disability and long term disability

3. Life insurance and AD&D

4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)

5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts

6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits

7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match

8. 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.

9. 11 paid holidays

10. 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.

11. Paid parental leave

12. Adoption assistance

13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan

14. Financial planning and group legal

15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.

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