Senior Cloud Native DevOps Engineer - Energy Product Incubator

About the Company and Team

Oracle Energy and Water is a tech provider empowering utility companies and other energy innovators around the world to serve their consumers. Every day, utilities provide reliable energy to power our world and deliver water to sustain life -- and Oracle’s products are at the center. Customers check their usage online, compare rate plans, and are encouraged to save electricity to contribute to a cleaner energy future -- and Oracle helps make it all possible. Our team strives to ensure that every global citizen has access to clean and affordable energy and water.

You’ll be joining a team that’s incubating a new platform product within the energy space. We are a creative group of passionate individuals, committed to building out the platform that powers the rapidly-evolving needs of utility companies while making the world a better, greener place to live for us all.  We operate with a startup mindset on this team providing the best of two worlds -- the autonomy to iterate on new ideas while sitting within a stable, larger organization at Oracle. We’re working on big goals, and we need talented folks with equally big ambitions. Join us!

About the Job

We’re looking for an experienced senior cloud native DevOps engineer for our engineering incubator team. You’ll be part of a team of experienced engineers who are building a next-generation platform for the energy industry with a heavy focus on massive data volume processing.

Our new platform is built directly on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) based on cloud native principles. We build to scale globally, leveraging state-of-the-art tooling, with zero downtime. 

You will be responsible for deploying fixes for this new platform service with a deep focus on architecture, production operations, performance management, deployment and release engineering. You will work with multiple cross-functional teams helping deliver new and outstanding experiences to our stakeholders while ensuring reliability and performance. The successful candidate will be expected to interface with both senior management and the various delivery teams across OCI and security and compliance architecture team to define and maintain our compliance posture in an environment of increasing regulatory expectations and growth.

Career Level - IC4

What You’ll Make Happen

• Operate and perform maintenance to cloud services running within the region.
• Assess, prioritize, and communicate risks and urgency to leadership and engineering team
• Take ownership of the implementation and production operations of a wide array of core system platform solutions
• React to production deficiencies by continuously implementing automation, self-healing, and real-time monitoring to production systems
• Ensure thorough documentation of incidents through company-standard reporting methods.
• Stay informed of cloud infrastructure stacks

 

About You

• Solid experience with Linux.
• Experience troubleshooting complex software and/or networking issues. 
• Knowledge on cloud computing architecture, primarily Identity, Compute and Networking.
• Development skills utilizing Terraform, Python, Shell, and SQL.
• Prior DevOps or continuous delivery and deployment experience preferred.
• Deep experience with continuous deployment tools.
• Experience with Kubernetes or other container orchestration technology is a plus.
• You work backwards from the why. You care about creating reliable software that solves real problems.
• You value simplicity and scale, work comfortably in a collaborative, agile environment, and be excited to learn. You understand that simple systems are easier to operate and fix.
• You have a proven ability to quickly learn new technical domains and then train others.
• You work well with everyone. You can lead a conversation in a room with engineers, managers and customers.
• You are comfortable with ambiguity. You have a strong sense of ownership, and are able to drive projects to completion.

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: from $94,200 to $223,500 per annum. May be eligible for bonus and equity.

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Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as interna