Principal Site Reliability Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

Oracle is seeking motivated Principal Site Reliability Engineer who thrives in a fast-paced rapidly evolving technology environment. This position requires wide and overall knowledge in IBM Mainframe zLinux, DB2, zVM, Linux on x86. Knowledge on AIX and MAC support will be additional advantage. Site Reliability Engineer expected to work with multiple service and product development teams, identifying cross-team issues that create risk for operations across the organization and resolving those issues with a mixture of engineering, development, troubleshooting expertise, and general operational guidance. This role also requires excellent communication and organizational skills. The candidate is expected to collaborate with service owners, other engineers and developers to deliver a superior support experience to development community

Responsibilities

• Solve complex problems related to Mainframe zLinux, DB2, zVM, Linux on x86.
• Act as escalation point for critical issues that may not have a documented procedure and provide Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
• Understand the end-to-end configuration, technical dependencies, characteristics of development infrastructure
• Quickly grasp and analyze new technologies that are complex and rapidly changing and integrate those into automation and infrastructure support
• Design and delivery of mission critical automation, with focus on security, resiliency, scale, and performance.
• Author functional and technical documentation and standard operating producers (SOP)
• Collaborate with development teams in defining and implementing improvements in service architecture.
• Articulate technical characteristics of services and technology areas and guide cross-functional teams to engineer and add capabilities to internal tools.
• Partner with DevOps teams, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure deployment, development teams to identify and resolve issues.

Knowledge Skills

• 10 years of experience in Mainframe zLinux, DB2, zVM, Linux on x86.
• Experience in debugging operating system performance issues and performance tuning
• Expertise in developing scripts, utilities and tools to automate routine or manual intensive tasks.
• Experience in application, compute, storage and database troubleshooting for improving application reliability, scalability, availability
• Experience in operations and problem management
• Possess and demonstrates strong logical-thinking skill, full of intellectual curiosity and high for self-development.
• Experience working with fault tolerant, highly available, high throughput, distributed and scalable systems.
• Experience of working with global teams across different time zones.
• Aptitude to be a good team player and the desire to learn and implement new technologies as needed
• Excellent organizational, verbal, and written communication skills

Qualifications required

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or related areas is preferred

Responsibilities

• Solve complex problems related to Mainframe zLinux, DB2, zVM, Linux on x86.
• Act as escalation point for critical issues that may not have a documented procedure and provide Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
• Understand the end-to-end configuration, technical dependencies, characteristics of development infrastructure
• Quickly grasp and analyze new technologies that are complex and rapidly changing and integrate those into automation and infrastructure support
• Design and delivery of mission critical automation, with focus on security, resiliency, scale, and performance.
• Author functional and technical documentation and standard operating producers (SOP)
• Collaborate with development teams in defining and implementing improvements in service architecture.
• Articulate technical characteristics of services and technology areas and guide cross-functional teams to engineer and add capabilities to internal tools.
• Partner with DevOps teams, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure deployment, development teams to identify and resolve issues.

Qualifications

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 in USD from: $86,400 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.
Career Level - IC4

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