Principal Cloud Operation Engineer

Maintain Availability, Scalability, and Efficiency of Oracle Cloud Services. Solve complex infrastructure problems. Handle customer incident tickets and/or deploy software in test or production systems, and or perform testing on test systems or production systems. You will be required to do RCA when possible; if the issue is complex, beyond your knowledge or skills, escalate to developers in team. Its a critical role to help with availability, scalability, and efficiency of Oracle products and services. Help manage Oracle standards, and methods for large-scale distributed systems. If needed, help facilitate service capacity planning and demand forecasting, software performance analysis, and system tuning.

Responsibilities:

• Technical Leadership and SME in the Area
• Handle Escalations
• Responsible and Ownership of Ops Service delivery
• Incident Management
• Support and troubleshooting of Staging/Production environments
• Response and Resolve incidents as per SLAs
• Organise, Anticipate, Plan and work as On-Call in shifts for multiple services (Open to work in shifts & shows flexibility)
• Maintain Service High Availability
• Release Management
• Test and Deploy solutions and automate to replace manual processes
• Build and maintain deployment tools/procedures
• Zero downtime deployments and a high availability mindset
• Define and build innovative solution methodologies and assets around infrastructure, cloud migration and deployment operations at scale.
• Work with service teams to resolve complex issues that require troubleshooting and knowledge of code.
• Keep documentation up to date and resolving similar tickets with lower turnaround time and within SLA
• Ensure production security posture
• Ensure monitoring is robust and effective
• Change Management
• Perform Root Cause Analysis

Required Skills:

• 8+ years overall experience in IT industry
• Minimum 7 years of experience as a Sys Admin/Support
• Strong systems architecture skills
• Strong Linux administration (Understanding of different Hardware family)
• Virtualisation Technologies
• Scripting Language (Python/Bash/Shell etc, basic understanding of Java / Go will be good to have)
• Hands on experience at Monitoring/Instrumentation tools (Prometheus/Grafana, new relic, elastic or equivalent).
• Experience with maintaining high scale deployments, managing high throughput and IO intensive services.
• Strong knowledge of system configuration tools such as Chef, Terraform, GIT, Jenkins/Hudson, Artifactory
• Continuous Integration development/deployment, e.g. Docker, Kubernetes
• Understanding of Networking, Cloud Computing, Load Balancers

Career Level - IC4