DevOps Engineer at Oracle

Linux Cloud Developer & Support (DevOps) Engineer

Location: Remote

Responsibilities:

• Enable and enhance Oracle Linux cloud integrations.
• Participate in DevOps related code reviews.
• Proactively suggest and implement service improvements.
• Active and direct support of the service.

Qualifications & Experience:

Although not definitive, the ideal candidate will typically have the following:

• BS/MS degree in CS, EE, or equivalent
• 4+ years of system support experience

Strong experience with the following: 

• Kubernetes and container orchestration technologies
• Linux and Virtualization (systemd, package management, kvm, etc)
• Configuration management and systems orchestration (any of Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Terraform)
• Familiar with monitoring and logging (Grafana, ELK, fluent, etc)
• Operational excellence (customer-centric mindset, high availability, troubleshooting, canary deploys, etc)
• Experience with micro-services based software architecture
• Experience with cloud environments a plus (AWS, Azure, OpenStack)
• Solid scripting background (Python, Bash, or similar)
• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing and operations
• Comfortable with Agile Software Development practices (e.g. Scrum, CI/CD, Slack, etc.)

Personal Abilities:

• Ability to solve complex problems, providing hands-on resolution
• Critical thinking and decision making skills
• Excellent communication in English (both written and spoken)
• Results orientated, an ability to manage multiple priorities is also expected
• Highly organized and detail-oriented

This is primarily a DevOps (SRE ) role to support a team that designs and develops microservices, by troubleshooting, deploying and debugging software programs in a production cloud environment.

As a member of the software engineering division, you will take an active role in the definition and evolution of standard practices and procedures for our microservice.

Work is non-routine and very complex, involving the application of advanced technical/business skills in area of specialization. Leading contributor individually and as a team member, providing direction and mentoring to others. BS or MS degree or equivalent experience relevant to functional area. 5+ years of system engineering (DevOps) or related experience.

As part of Oracle's employment process candidates will be required to successfully complete a pre-employment screening process. This will involve identity and employment verification, professional references, education verification and professional qualifications and memberships (if applicable).