Senior Site Reliability Engineer/ DBA

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.

We are looking for hands-on engineers with expertise and passion in solving difficult problems in all areas of software engineering: distributed systems, identity, security, observability, and user experience.
This is a greenfield opportunity to design and build new cloud centric applications from the ground up. We are growing fast, still at an early stage, and working on ambitious new initiatives. An engineer at any level can have significant technical and business impact here. You will be part of a team of experienced, motivated, diverse set of people, and given the autonomy as well as support to do your best work. It is a dynamic and flexible workplace where you'll belong and be encouraged.

Oracle is looking for a Senior DBA & Site Reliability Engineer with world-class experience in supporting large scale cloud deployments and deploying business continuity solutions across the world. The candidate should have expert level knowledge of Oracle DB Administration, Data Engineering, DB replication functionality and enterprise application management.

Responsibilities
Establish and enforce data design and data modeling principles and practices
Optimize and support Database performance and scalability
Desing, establish and improve data pipelines efficiency and observability
Develop and deploy Business Continuity Solutions across the hosted regions.
Engineer solutions so that services are compliant and meet/exceed the service level agreements.
Resolve the service disruptions, execute planned maintenances and conduct trainings across the teams.
Collaborate with various teams during Service outages, capacity expansion, infrastructure maintenance as well as ensure adherence to production deployment standards.
Implement best practices for monitoring, logging, and alerting to proactively identify and address potential issues before they impact users.
Understand and communicate the scale, capacity, security, performance attributes, and requirements of the service and technology stack.

Qualifications
5+ years of Production support experience with Oracle database, and expertise with Oracle's RAC, ASM and RMAN as a core DBA
Hands-on Platform Engineering, Data Engineering, Data modeling and SRE experience
Expert level knowledge in the deployment and support of infrastructure and applications.
Technical skills and knowledge that extends across Application/Server/Storage/Network technologies to troubleshoot and provide system level guidance/solutions
Hands on Oracle Database, OCI Automation, Coding Skills SQL/Java/Shell/Python/Terraform, etc.
Strong ability to solve operational problems, with ability to identify and automate common routines.
Experience in Disaster Recovery (DR)
Strong communication skills, both verbal and written, and the ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment.

Responsibilities

Work with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team on the shared full stack ownership of a collection of services and/or technology areas. Understand the end-to-end configuration, technical dependencies, and overall behavioral characteristics of production services. Responsible for the design and delivery of the mission critical stack, with focus on security, resiliency, scale, and performance. Authority for end-to-end performance and operability. Partner with development teams in defining and implementing improvements in service architecture. Articulate technical characteristics of services and technology areas and guide Development Teams to engineer and add premier capabilities to the Oracle Cloud service portfolio. Understand and communicate the scale, capacity, security, performance attributes, and requirements of the service and technology stack. Demonstrate clear understanding of automation and orchestration principles. Act as ultimate escalation point for complex or critical issues that have not yet been documented as Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs). Utilize a deep understanding of service topology and their dependencies required to troubleshoot issues and define mitigations. Understand and explain the affect of product architecture decisions on distributed systems. Professional curiosity and a desire to a develop deep understanding of services and technologies.

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: $79,100 to $158,200 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 - IC3

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