Lead DevOps Engineer

Company: Oracle
Location: Austin
Posted on: February 23, 2021

Job Description:

As a lead DevOps engineer and architect in the Fusion CX group, you will be part of core engineering team responsible for building an running--cloud native microservices. These microservices are part of a larger eco system that drive Oracle's SaaS multi-billion dollars portfolio. While the immediate responsibility for this position focused on streamlining and executing Site Reliability Engineering and DevOps activities, you will be embedded as a part of global core engineering teams with opportunity to drive and/or contribute/influence services platform and architecture to improve observability, scalability, and reliability.--In this role, you will also have opportunity to work closely with services development and Oracle cloud infrastructure (OCI) teams and over a period of time grow to be a resident expert to drive services platform design that closely align with OCI.The Key responsibilities include but not limited:* Provide technical leadership to help drive improvements into services and platform observability and proactive monitoring* Serve as a part of global 24x7 On Call rotation team to support microservices that is used by Oracle Enterprise customers to run their mission critical business applications like 24x7 Customer Service.* Help identify and drive Performance, Scalability, and Reliability related optimization based on experience and learnings from the production incidents* Act as 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 the dependencies required to troubleshoot issues and define mitigations.* Understand and explain the effect of product architecture decisions on systems.* Identify problems and/or opportunities for improvements that are common across multiple services/teams.* Professional curiosity and a desire to a develop deep understanding of services and technologies.* Use your experience and wisdom from building & running systems to drive high availability, performance and operational improvements* Use your excellent written & oral communication skills to ask pertinent questions, and to assess/aggregate/report the responses.* Quickly grasp and analyze complex and rapidly changing systems* Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders* Etc, etc.Required qualifications:* 10+ year of experience working with full stack application administration, of which 3+ years in solid experience managing and working with cloud native technologies and applications* Deep understanding and hands-on experience with Cloud Native deployment and monitoring tools/technology with a expertise in areas like Kubernetes, Helm charts, container based deployment, Service Mesh, Prometheus, Grafana, etc.* Strong technical acumen and customer focused* Experience with SRE in supporting--production and non-production--environments for medium to large deployments * Strong knowledge and hands-on experience in running and/or architecting Kafka, Java, Elastic, RDBMS based microservices* Excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills to identify and resolve complex issues quickly* Knowledge and hands-on experience in CI/CD design and automation to facilitate continuous delivery and deployment* Knowledge of professional software engineering best practices for the full software development life cycle is highly desirable* Collaborative and aptitude to be a good team player to work with global teams* Excellent organizational, verbal, and written communication skills* Experience in Agile/SCRUM enterprise-scale software development including working with GiT, JIRA, Confluence, etc.* Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent related field experience

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