Senior Oracle Database Site Reliability Engineer

The Oracle Healthcare platform and infrastructure team can provide you with the opportunity to build and operate a suite of massively scaled, integrated cloud services in a broadly distributed, multi-tenant cloud environment. OHAI is committed to providing the best cloud products that meet the needs of our customers, who are tackling some of the world’s biggest challenges. We offer unique opportunities for smart, hands-on engineers with the expertise and passion to solve difficult problems in distributed, highly available services, and virtualized infrastructure. To support this vision, we are building a platform that manages the end-to-end lifecycle, from provisioning to upgrade to termination, and provides a self-service cloud experience to the customer. We are looking for passionate engineers with strong development skillsets who are Oracle Database, Oracle Cloud, Oracle Autonomous Database, Oracle Data Management (Partitioning, Compression), and Exadata experts. We seek engineers with current experience in cloud technologies or those interested in expanding their skills in the Cloud.

Oracle Health’s Database Services Team is a client-facing organization supporting 400+ customers with an extensive fleet of databases across the world. As a Database Site Reliability Engineer, you will solve interesting technical challenges by defining, designing, deploying, and troubleshooting key Oracle Cloud services, platforms, and infrastructure while always thinking about reliability, scalability, resilience, security, and performance. This position will focus on critical database system migrations to the cloud and life cycle management in OCI. This includes strategic projects to provision and transition existing databases underlying hospital systems to Oracle Cloud and Autonomous Database.

This role owns mission critical database lifecycle management projects including Oracle database upgrades, cloud migrations , major/minor patching, OS upgrades, host migrations, and other projects. An ideal candidate will have a history of automating processes and migrating Oracle Databases to Cloud platforms including Exadata Cloud service and Autonomous Database platforms. This position will identify improvements in migration and upgrade processes, and mentor junior members of the team. An ideal candidate will be capable of managing multiple simultaneous projects and keeping them on schedule meeting program and customer requirements. 
 

What You'll Do

Ownership Scope – As an SRE, you will understand the end-to-end configuration, technical dependencies, and overall behavioral characteristics of the production services you own. In partnership with your Development partners, you will have the responsibility to ensure that services are designed and delivered to be mission critical with focus on security, resiliency, scale, and performance.

Operations Engineering – You will understand and be able to communicate the scale, capacity, security, performance attributes and requirements of the services you own.

Automation – You will have a clear understanding of automation and orchestration principles, and will be eager to automate, wherever and whenever the possibility arises, while simultaneously eliminating technical debt. Automation must be part of your DNA.

Prevention - Once you have expertly resolved an issue, you will immediately work on how to more quickly resolve the problem next time, with the goal to eventually prevent the problem happening ever again

Broad Interests - SREs are a rare mix of sysadmins and development Engineers, and as such have the ability to understand and explain the affect of product architecture decisions on the ability to run as distributed systems. They are driven by professional curiosity and a desire to a develop deep understanding of the their services and the technologies they depend upon.

Represent SRE - Proactive, self-motivated, customer-focused, organized, and a good communicator. SREs can be expected to represent our team capabilities to other stakeholders.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications
•   3-5+ years of experience as Oracle DBA
•   3+ years of experience automating and streamlining processes to add performance and stability
•   Bachelor’s degree/master’s degree (Information Technology/Mathematics/Computer Science/Computer Software/Electronics/Operational Research/Computer System Engineering).
•   Ability to work in a collaborative, cross-functional team environment.
•   Strong grasp of Computer Science concepts
•   Knowledge in Python, Perl and/or Shell Scripting
•   Managing production databases running on UNIX flavors (RHEL, OEL).
•   You are experienced at building highly available services, possessing knowledge of common service-oriented design patterns and service-to-service communication protocols.
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