Job Description
Job description
We are looking for dynamic, energetic and forward-looking engineers to join our database cloud engineering team. Candidate must have Oracle Database Administration experience as a Site Reliability Engineer or DBA on large production environments. Understand the end-to-end configuration, technical dependencies, and overall behavioral characteristics of large-scale implementation of Oracle database.
Responsibilities includes development and implementation of critical test cases, certification of the mission critical technology stacks for cloud integration with focus on security, resiliency, scale, and performance. Partner with development teams and work towards addressing and fixing production issues on cloud, defining and implementing product enhancements. Collaborate with various cloud operations teams to understand the production issues and work towards to create a reproducible test cases in the lab environment to present to the development teams.
Detailed Responsibilities
· Certification of Database products for cloud integration
o Design & Develop Highly Automated Multi-Tier/Multi-Stack Stress Test Suites/Workloads for Testing and Certifications
Develop and implement various database life-cycle management flows.
Conduct extensive testing of Oracle database HA, data protection and disaster recovery.
Implement and validate all Maximum Availability Architecture best practices and asses how these helps to prevent, detect, tolerate and repair from various outages.
Work on large engineered cloud environments on OCI and EXaCS
Independently setup and configure large database environments with RAC, data-guard, and Oracle Goldengate.
Independently install, configure, patch and upgrade large database clusters on Linux
o Develop test cases and configurations to simulate application/business critical workloads and usage scenarios.
o Develop and Maintain Test Specs/Plans/Methodologies and then Design, and Implement End-to-End Test Suites/Frameworks simulating Real-world production systems.
- Extensive upgrade and Patching testing while simulating production like load scenarios.
· Research and Development
o Reviewing production issues and identifying gaps in the test suite and implementing these as test cases. This may include DB Schema Design/Normalization, Data generation, Load generation and Application/Business Logic programming in Oracle SQL, PL-SQL, Perl/Shell/Python and JDBC/JMS or Python.
o Carry-out independent research and review new functionality/features in nextgen Oracle Database releases and other products.
o Performance Tuning and pro-active measurements of future planning.
o Backup & Recovery Strategy.
Log and track product defects (bugs), Collaborating closely with Development teams to resolve problems encountered in these Multi-tier test simulations.
Develop Automation tools, Simulation Apps and Re-usable Framework for efficient System/Stress Testing.
Participate in Product Feature Review, Certification experiments and User Document reviews.
Research and acquire skills on new technologies as needed from time to time
Technical qualifications
Minimum Requirements for this job role
· 6-14 years of Oracle database administration experience on large production environments
· Database hands on skills especially around database and system troubleshooting and administration
· GoldenGate setup, administration and tuning
· RAC setup and administration
· Strong Linux/UNIX OS understanding including OS Architecture & Internals (Networking, File Systems, Process/Memory Monitoring/Tuning/Linux Virtualization etc).
· Programming/Scripting skills in one or more of below languages is required.
o Scripting - Perl / Shell / Python, Microservices/REST APIs
o Programming - Oracle SQL, PL/SQL, Java/JDBC, Python
· B.E, M.E./MS in CS/ECE/EE, MCA from Reputed Engineering Colleges preferred.
Preferred Requirements for this job role
· Architect and administrating large mission critical Oracle database systems
· Data Guard administration and tuning
· Experience on any ERP applications like Oracle E-biz suite, Oracle Fusion Apps or Netsuite
· Good written communication skills to create best practice and solutions
· Experience in developing test-cases, automation and orchestration
Responsibilities
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.
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 United States only
Hiring Range: from $97,400 to $199,500 per annum. May be eligible for bonus and equity.
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 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 a
