Job Information
Oracle Senior Principal Service Reliability Engineer in Redwood City, California
Job Description
As part of the market leading ERP Cloud, Oracle ERP Cloud Operations offers a broad suite of modules and capabilities designed to empower the development organization with world-class service reliability engineering disciplines and deliver customer success with streamlined process, increased productivity, and improved business decisions.
Oracle, the world leader in Enterprise Cloud, is hiring the best and brightest technologists in the industry as we continue to add customer-centric, world-class, leading edge, secure, hyper-scale based solutions throughout all levels of the cloud stack. Oracle’s cloud eco-system is the only complete business cloud platform on the planet, with market leading and business transforming solutions spanning SaaS, PaaS and IaaS. Oracle’s cloud applications, such as Enterprise Resource Management, Customer Experience Management, Human Capital Management and Supply Chain Management are used by thousands of customers across the globe and are the broadest, most innovative in the industry, providing businesses with adaptive intelligence, standardized business processes and competitive advantages at low costs.
Responsibilities
Key Tasks and Responsibilities
Service Ownership – You will be part of the SRE team, whose mission is the shared full stack ownership of a collection of services, with our Service Development and Operations SRE partners.
Ownership Scope – You will understand the end-to-end configuration, technical dependencies, and overall behavioral characteristics of the production services you own. In partnership with your Service Development and Operations SRE partners, you will have the responsibility to ensure that services are designed and delivered to be mission critical with focus on monitoring, telemetry, security, resiliency, scale and performance.
Service Requirements – You will provide direction and prioritization to service Product Management and Service Development teams to engineer and add premier SRE capabilities to the Oracle SaaS/ERP services.
Sizing & Architecture - You will lead the sizing and architecture for Saas/ERP services and collaborate with PSR/Development and customer to size the environments appropriately.
Incident Response – You will be the primary author of technical content for both customer and internal communications used throughout the incident response process, e.g. postmortem/root cause analysis, end-to-end repair item definition, and fixes in production.
Prevention – Using data-driven incident findings, you will work on solutions that will ultimately prevent the incident/problem from arising ever again and develop interim solutions to resolve the problem next time more quickly.
Evangelize and educate – You will play a critical role in making the transformational culture change to an SRE mindset within the Service Development organization. You will be responsible for evangelizing and educating Service Product Management and Service Development on the service centric, full Techstack approach and principles of SRE as well as the architectures and solutions used for Oracle SaaS/ERP services.
Service Performance – You will work with SaaS Operations and Product Development teams to triage performance issues (both reactive and proactive). You will work with central teams to define and drive monitoring tooling and process enhancements, including identification of service metrics to enhance performance issue triage, diagnostics, and improvements.
Service Health Reviews – You will represent ERP Development in periodic cross-organizational service health reviews. You will help to identify patterns that influence service performance and/or reliability. You will lead efforts to eliminate process deficiencies and drive simplification into processes and procedures.
Automation – Our goal is to eliminate human intervention wherever possible. You will be responsible for driving automation into our monitoring and recovery processes, code delivery procedures and issue resolution processes.
Skills and Qualifications
Minimum of 10 years of software development and demonstrated knowledge of professional software engineering best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control, build and release processes, continuous deployment and test suite development and maintenance.
Problem solving skills with abilities in analysis, problem identification and resolution.
Experience with enterprise system components, architecture, and deployments
Experience in deploying and running large scale online systems built on Cloud platforms such as Oracle Cloud, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform and/or OpenStack
Experience in performance analysis and tuning of enterprise applications
Experience with monitoring and alerting using technologies like Prometheus, Sensu, Nagios, Kafka, Wavefront, BigPanda, DataDog, and/or PagerDuty.
Experience with Oracle Linux, RedHat Linux, Ubuntu, Centos, CoreOS, and/or Amazon Linux.
Experience in designing and building automated tools and solutions, including programming and data model design skills
Hands-on with web protocols and Linux/Unix tools and architecture, from kernel to shell, file systems, and client-server protocols.
Hands on with devops tools and technologies like Kubernetes, Grafana and Microservices.
Experience with solutions for platform and application layer telemetry, monitoring, scalability, performance, and reliability.
Experience with working systems and network administration, application security, DevOps and/or Site Reliability Engineering will be highly preferred
Excellent written and verbal technical communications with technical and non-technical peers, customers and at times executive leadership.
Proven success in contributing in a collaborative, team-oriented environment, with the ability to establish and nurture relationships at all levels.
BS in Computer Science or related field and 10 years relevant experience.
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 $102,100 to $251,600 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.
Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle’s differing products, industries and lines of business.
Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.
Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:
Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
Short term disability and long term disability
Life insurance and AD&D
Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
11 paid holidays
Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
Paid parental leave
Adoption assistance
Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Financial planning and group legal
Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance
About Us
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Disclaimer:
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