Be comfortable with mission-critical production issues and manage customer anxiety appropriately. We would like to see some combination of the following skills:
- 5+ years of software design or development experience or DevOps role with distributed, highly-scalable, maximum availability (HA, brownout), multi-node environments (partitioning, isolation with vlan, pkeys, qinq, vrf, evpn)
- Oncall
- Knowledge of server virtualization technologies: Xen, KVM Linux containers, docker including vnuma, domain groups, SR-IOV
- Knowledge of Linux kernel internals (memory management, scheduler, builds), TCP/IP Networking stack, Infiniband/ OFED Architecture (RDS, RoCE V2, OCFS2), Filesystems/volumes
- Familiar with x86 systems, network switches from either Cisco, Arista, Juniper, Mellanox, L3 top of switch routing (OSPF, BGP), Mellanox HCAs (CX3, CX5 and newer) programmer's guide
- Experience working with Cloud infrastructure APIs, REST API model, and developing REST APIs
- Demonstrate experience with Java, as well as strong experience with scripting languages such as Python, Bash.
- Strong troubleshooting and performance tuning skills, OPS or system administration
- Knowledge on any of the following areas is a plus:
- Understanding the latest features of Exadata / Engineered systems, Oracle Grid Infrastructure and Database is a plus
- Familiar with OpenStack and/or other Cloud infrastructure products is a plus
- Understanding and experience of Cloud Networking & Security (like Application Firewall, IPSec VPN, NAT, IPv6, websockets, TLS, certificates, and tunneling protocols) architectures
- Strong understanding of I/O characteristics and storage systems
- A background in multi-tenant service offering and concepts on Service Level Availability a strong plus
- PCI, HIPAA audits, UK gov, security vulnerabilities remediation
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.
