Senior DevOPS SRE Engineer

Posted Jan 12

Full Job Description

Oracle is seeking an experienced and driven Principal DevOPS SRE Engineer who wants to join a team of highly talented Technology and Engineering professionals who are revolutionizing the delivery of Cloud Services at Oracle.

OCI Enterprise Engineering provides modern enterprise services to Oracle’s internal businesses and is amid a cloud transformation driving improved agility, performance, availability and security across Oracle’s Enterprise and Development environments. We are looking for passionate, highly motivated, uniquely skilled, “engineering-first” driven individuals to join our team and help build our next generation business platform. If you are looking for an environment that embraces your unbridled ambition for innovating solutions; provides clearly defined objectives and empowers individual growth through direct feedback; values your contributions and is dedicated to supporting your personal development, then Oracle IT is the team for you!

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Responsibilities

Has an excellent, hands-on understanding of tools and techniques required to plan, build, and run a development (DevOps) pipeline for container-based, cloud-based services.
Clearly articulate, define, and execute on pipeline strategic vision based on business and engineering objectives.
With other architects, develop architecture standards for containerization and deployment designs.
Develop architecture standards and practices for pipeline development, enhancement, and maintenance
Solve complex problems related to Oracle IT services and build automation to prevent problem recurrence .
Identify opportunities and drive the implementation of automation to improve service health, manageability, reliability, and telemetry.
Ability to read, write, configure, design, and script end-to-end service telemetry, alerting and self-healing capabilities for platforms.
Authoring functional and technical documentation.
You will be responsible for the design and delivery of the mission critical stack, with focus on security, resiliency, scale, and performance with authority for end-to-end performance and operability.
A deep understanding of service topology and their dependencies required to troubleshoot issues and define mitigations. Professional curiosity and a desire to a develop deep understanding of services and technologies is required.
As a member of Oracle IT SRE team, candidate is responsible for managing and supporting various corporate services like Oracle.com, Java.com, Blogs.oracle.com, Community.oracle.com etc.

Qualifications

Four years of bachelor’s degree or master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent
Excellence in verbal and written communication. Ability to communicate with all levels during critical events and be a bridge for technical discussion with non-technical people.
At least 4 years hands-on experience with containers in Production Environments – preferably Docker and Kubernetes Orchestration
5+ years of experience running large scale customer facing web services in a DevOps/SRE environment
Experience implementing CICD strategies & Container deployments using Helm charts
Configuring and designing service mesh and discovery using LinkerD , Consul, or Istio.
Experience working with Kubernetes ingress services such as Contour and Envoy
Building Observability solutions and exposing metrics that feed SLO’s and KPI’s
Experience in Kubernetes to deploy scale, load balance and manage Docker containers with multiple names spaced versions.
Must have experience with containers and / or container management systems, such as Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker, etc.
Deep knowledge of build automation tools, such as Jenkins, Ansible, Packer, etc. is required.
Good knowledge of cloud deployment tools, such as Chef, Puppet, Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.
Strong Technical background with an ability to troubleshoot issues impacting large scale service architectures and application stacks.
3 + years of d emonstrable experience in one or more scripting/programming languages such as GO, Python, Ruby and etc.
Experience leveraging cloud architecture, applying site reliability principles, and/or demonstrating sensitivity to operational concerns
Familiarity with large scale cloud networking infrastructure, including network architectures, DNS, TCP/IP protocols, firewall management, routing, switching, ACLs, SSL/TLS
3+ years of e xperience utilizing Cloud Infrastructure such as Oracle Cloud Infrastructure , Azure, AWS, OpenStack, GCP
Cloud Service monitoring and incident management
Master of source code management for large teams using frameworks such as GIT, GITHub , Terraform, Artifactory, Bitbucket, Docker
Full-stack troubleshooting skills across network, application, hardware, management fabric, and distributed services layers
Strong know how of CURL, Postman, JSON . CURL Knowledge and using CURL to Request
Flexible work times to enable working with team members in other time zones (Early and Late conferences)
Experience to work with offshore teams is a plus
Experience in 24x7 operational support

Bonus Points:

Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or be working towards it
AWS or OCI Certified Architect or be working towards it

Responsibilities

Has an excellent, hands-on understanding of tools and techniques required to plan, build, and run a development (DevOps) pipeline for container-based, cloud-based services.
Clearly articulate, define, and execute on pipeline strategic vision based on business and engineering objectives.
With other architects, develop architecture standards for containerization and deployment designs.
Develop architecture standards and practices for pipeline development, enhancement, and maintenance
Solve complex problems related to Oracle IT services and build automation to prevent problem recurrence .
Identify opportunities and drive the implementation of automation to improve service health, manageability, reliability, and telemetry.
Ability to read, write, configure, design, and script end-to-end service telemetry, alerting and self-healing capabilities for platforms.
Authoring functional and technical documentation.
You will be responsible for the design and delivery of the mission critical stack, with focus on security, resiliency, scale, and performance with authority for end-to-end performance and operability.
A deep understanding of service topology and their dependencies required to troubleshoot issues and define mitigations. Professional curiosity and a desire to a develop deep understanding of services and technologies is required.
As a member of Oracle IT SRE team, candidate is responsible for managing and supporting various corporate services like Oracle.com, Java.com, Blogs.oracle.com, Community.oracle.com etc.

Qualifications

Four years of bachelor’s degree or master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent
Excellence in verbal and written communication. Ability to communicate with all levels during critical events and be a bridge for technical discussion with non-technical people.
At least 4 years hands-on experience with containers in Production Environments – preferably Docker and Kubernetes Orchestration
5+ years of experience running large scale customer facing web services in a DevOps/SRE environment
Experience implementing CICD strategies & Container deployments using Helm charts
Configuring and designing service mesh and discovery using LinkerD , Consul, or Istio.
Experience working with Kubernetes ingress services such as Contour and Envoy
Building Observability solutions and exposing metrics that feed SLO’s and KPI’s
Experience in Kubernetes to deploy scale, load balance and manage Docker containers with multiple names spaced versions.
Must have experience with containers and / or container management systems, such as Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker, etc.
Deep knowledge of build automation tools, such as Jenkins, Ansible, Packer, etc. is required.
Good knowledge of cloud deployment tools, such as Chef, Puppet, Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.
Strong Technical background with an ability to troubleshoot issues impacting large scale service architectures and application stacks.
3 + years of d emonstrable experience in one or more scripting/programming languages such as GO, Python, Ruby and etc.
Experience leveraging cloud architecture, applying site reliability principles, and/or demonstrating sensitivity to operational concerns
Familiarity with large scale cloud networking infrastructure, including network architectures, DNS, TCP/IP protocols, firewall management, routing, switching, ACLs, SSL/TLS
3+ years of e xperience utilizing Cloud Infrastructure such as Oracle Cloud Infrastructure , Azure, AWS, OpenStack, GCP
Cloud Service monitoring and incident management
Master of source code management for large teams using frameworks such as GIT, GITHub , Terraform, Artifactory, Bitbucket, Docker
Full-stack troubleshooting skills across network, application, hardware, management fabric, and distributed services layers
Strong know how of CURL, Postman, JSON . CURL Knowledge and using CURL to Request
Flexible work times to enable working with team members in other time zones (Early and Late conferences)
Experience to work with offshore teams is a plus
Experience in 24x7 operational support

Bonus Points:

Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or be working towards it
AWS or OCI Certified Architect or be working towards it