OCI - Oracle cloud infrastructure expert and core DBA

Job Description

The ideal candidate is someone who in addition to the below skills and willing to step into the role of a Troubleshooting coordinator who can engage simultaneously with Network, Application, Systems & Vendors. This a hybrid cloud environment and often Architecture involves multiple domains.

Experience with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (Advanced)

• Should be well versed with CLI, Block storage, file storage and object storage and integrating each of them with OCI compute.
• Advanced storage use cases like mounting Object Storage on Compute instances, File Storage Backups. Developing API s for Application access to Buckets
• Developing Functions to automate scheduled processes. (convert Cron based jobs to Functions)
• Cloud Security including IAM, WAF, Security Lists and NSGs.
• Experience with handling cloud metrics/logging to troubleshoot outages and monitoring user activity. Splunk experience is highly preferred.

Linux System administration (advanced)

• System configurations for application integration.
• Working with Developers for application impact/remediations related to fixing security vulnerabilities.
• Custom integration of application and OS logs with Splunk or another.
• Remediating application/OS threat from SIEM
• Python, shell scripting

Windows administration experience (intermediate)

• Experience with IIS, installation of applications.
• Familiarity of MS SQL Server & Backups (intermediate experience)
• Configuring SMTP for application email alerts

Ansible Automation (Mandatory)

• Experience writing Ansible playbooks for Linux application installations, patching, OS State management.
• Creating and maintaining playbooks for Windows automation including rebooting, application installation, time sync operations. AD integration.
• Creation of custom inventories for Cloud resources.
• Troubleshooting Devops procedures (GitHub Actions, Jenkins and Ansible)

Containerization and Kubernetes (Mandatory)

• In depth experience containerizing existing application stack into micro-services
• Build and manage Kubernetes clusters using cloud native tools, RedHat OpenShift.
• Create a steady state support readiness process.
• Consolidate application and container logs with standard logging services.
• Creating dashboards for metrics using Grafana, ELK stack and Kubernetes-dashboard
• Creating Devops process for Blue/Green and Canary deployments