Oracle - Boston, MA

posted 2 months ago

Full-time - Senior
Boston, MA
Publishing Industries

About the position

Building off our Cloud momentum, Oracle has formed a new organization - Oracle Health Applications & Infrastructure. This team focuses on product development and product strategy for Oracle Health, while building out a complete platform supporting modernized, automated healthcare. This is a net new line of business, constructed with an entrepreneurial spirit that promotes an energetic and creative environment. We are unencumbered and will need your contribution to make it a world-class engineering center with the focus on excellence. At Oracle Health, our mission is to improve healthcare and quality of life globally through better experience and easier access to health and research data for patients and healthcare providers. This is an SRE role that owns mission-critical database lifecycle management projects including a deep focus on Cloud architecture, OCI Fleet Automation, capacity planning, 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 opportunities in OCI Fleet Level Administration 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. As a member of the Database engineering division, you will take an active role in the definition and evolution of standard practices and procedures. You should be able to effectively communicate technical ideas verbally and in writing (technical proposals, design specs, architecture diagrams, and presentations). You will need to understand the end-to-end configuration, technical dependencies, and overall behavioral characteristics of production services. You are experienced at building highly available services, possessing knowledge of common service-oriented design patterns and service-to-service communication protocols. Experience with production operations and best practices for putting quality code in production and troubleshooting issues when they arise is essential. You will play a role in defining and driving tasks associated with the support and operations of the Exadata in Oracle Cloud. The work is non-routine and can be very complex at times.

Responsibilities

  • Understand the end-to-end configuration, technical dependencies, and overall behavioral characteristics of the production services you own.
  • Ensure that services are designed and delivered to be mission critical with a focus on security, resiliency, scale, and performance.
  • Communicate the scale, capacity, security, and performance attributes and requirements of the services you own.
  • Automate processes wherever possible to eliminate technical debt.
  • Work on resolving issues quickly and develop solutions to prevent recurrence.
  • Understand and explain the effect of product architecture decisions on the ability to run as distributed systems.
  • Represent the SRE team capabilities to other stakeholders.
  • Collaborate with multiple teams and actively participate in the execution of roadmap projects.

Requirements

  • Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology or related field, or equivalent, relevant work experience.
  • At least 10+ years of experience as Oracle DBA, Site Reliability Engineer, or Oracle Database Architect.
  • Ability to work in a collaborative, cross-functional team environment.
  • Development Skills in PLSQL, Python, Perl and/or Shell Scripting.
  • Strong understanding of distributed computing, cloud concepts and platforms.
  • High availability & replication technologies (Data guard, Goldengate).
  • Very strong analytical skills to identify problems root cause.
  • Experience with Oracle databases including RAC, Data Guard, Oracle GI (clusterware, ASM), RMAN preferred.

Nice-to-haves

  • Understanding of REST Architecture and JSON is a plus.
  • Experience with Oracle Exadata & Oracle Autonomous Database strongly preferred.
  • Experience in infrastructure automation through Terraform, Chef, Ansible, Puppet, Packer or similar is a plus.
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines including VCS (git, svn, etc.), Gitlab Runners, Jenkins is a plus.

Benefits

  • 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
  • Flexible Vacation provided to all eligible employees
  • 11 paid holidays
  • Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire
  • Paid parental leave
  • Adoption assistance
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  • Financial planning and group legal
  • Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance
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