CLOUD AVAILABILITY ENGINEER at Oracle

Job description

Responsibilities

• Hands-on operational support for issues escalated to the development team by the front line operations teams.
• Monitoring of operational support slack channels and health dashboards.
• Providing insightful troubleshooting and optimal solutions based on a deep understanding of the product.
• Being able to discern when to escalate to subject matter experts
• Supporting various operations teams within Oracle using Iaas in multiple cloud and engineered systems offerings.
• Designing, developing and modifying platform and tooling code, integrating, refining and optimizing processes and tooling related to automation, diagnostics, analysis, continuous deployment and reporting.
• Developing intimate knowledge of the core product by diving into the code to the degree of being able to be make product code contributions.
• Performing root cause analysis on production incidents for correction of error purposes.
• Developing and documenting best practice system behavior and recipes for cookbook style documentation.

Requirements

• BS in Computer Science or equivalent a plus
• Excellent Linux system administration skills and familiarity with Linux (5 years + experience)
• Demonstrable advanced coding experience with scripting languages such as Python, Perl, shell, etc
• Experience with source code version control systems such as Git
• Strong networking skills with a solid knowledge of Internet Protocols and tools
• Comfortable with continuous deployment process tools such as Hudson or Jenkins
• Experience with distributed systems that scale well
• Participated in teams that have had a collaborative approach to systems architecture as well a high bar for quality and performance
• Experience with metrics acquisition and analysis, including log processing and regular expression programming