Software Developer 2, Cloud Operations

The Company

Oracle is the world’s leading provider of business software. With a presence in over 175 countries, we are one of the biggest technology companies on the planet. We're using innovative emerging technologies to tackle real-world problems today. From advancing energy efficiency to re-imagining online commerce, the work we do is not only transforming the world of business—it is helping advance governments, power nonprofits, and giving billions of people the tools they need to outpace change. For more information about Oracle (NYSE:ORCL), visit us at oracle.com.

Oracle’s commitment to R&D is a driving factor in the development of technologies that have kept Oracle at the forefront of the computer industry. If you are passionate about advanced development and working on the next-generation large-scale distributed systems for the most popular open source database in the world, which is optimized for the cloud providing the best performance, we would like to talk with you.

What you will do:

HeatWave is a fully managed database service, powered by the integrated in-memory query accelerator. It is the only cloud-native database service that combines transactions, analytics, and machine learning services into HeatWave, delivering real-time, secure analytics without the complexity, latency, and cost of ETL duplication. It also includes HeatWave Lakehouse, which allows users to query data stored in object storage in a variety of file formats. It is developed, managed, and supported by the MySQL team in Oracle. Join us to help further develop this amazing technology.

This cutting-edge technology serves critical business needs, which is changing the way data transactions function all over the world. You will make a technical impact on the world with the work you do.

Join a fun and flexible workplace where you’ll enhance your skills and build a solid professional foundation. As a Cloud Operations Engineer for Oracle's Heatwave Service team, you will contribute to an exciting team working on one of the hottest cloud services. You will use your skills to learn how to constantly deliver and improve on these tremendous cloud services. Operations work will include troubleshooting production issues and handling requests for upgrades, patches, or modifications. When not working on operations, you will be working on software engineering tasks such as reviewing incidents to drive improvement of services, tools, or runbooks to increase our reliability and scalability and reduce operational overhead through automation, training, documentation, service enhancement, or process. This position has the opportunity to leverage and learn the ins and outs of current cloud service architecture, deployment, monitoring, and operational technologies. There are many useful and desirable skills that will be acquired if not already present. See below for the many cool and current technologies in play. The ideal candidate has some of the many skills, but key is the motivation and ability to learn quickly as well as a passion for an excellent customer experience. Learn more at https://www.mysql.com/products/heatwave/
 

Career Level - IC2

Engineer will:

• Improve monitoring, notifications, and configuration of Heatwave services.
• Perform proactive service checks and monitor/triage and address incoming system/application alerts, email, and phone calls to ensure appropriate priority and meeting service SLA response time.
• Triage and troubleshoot service impacting events from multiple signals, including phone, email, service telemetry, and alerting.
• Participate in activities for services such as upgrades and patching.
• Identify and work with engineering to implement opportunities for automation, signal noise reduction, recurring issues, and other actions to reduce time to mitigate service impacting events and increase the productivity of cloud operations and development resources.
• Coordinate, document, and track critical incidents, ensuring rapid and complete issue resolution and an appropriate closed loop to customers and other key stakeholders.
• Contribute to a healthy, supportive, and inclusive team culture.
• Provide feedback to development teams about operations administration dashboard functionality and UIs.
• Up-skill by learning new features delivered for the service in accordance with the product roadmap.
• Improve the availability, scalability, latency, ease of use, and efficiency of service control plans and operational tooling.
• Participate in service capacity planning and demand forecasting, software performance analysis, and system tuning.
• Potentially participate in regular rotations as a central part of the 24x7 operations team. This includes rotational work on weekends, public holidays, and US East timezone shifts.
• Need to be reliable in terms of working scheduled hours.
• Need to be motivated quick learners.

Desired skills include

Cloud specific skills, which are not strictly limited to:

• Familiarity with OCI or equivalent Cloud services (e.g.: IAM, Compute, Load Balancer, Object Storage, Health Monitor).

General skills for working in this operational role:

• Basic understanding of serverless cloud architecture.
• Experience with Python programming, bash scripting, and Git.
• Familiarity with MySQL database, SQL query interface, and general database concepts.
• Basic Linux system administration knowledge and experience and familiarity with Linux troubleshooting and internals.
• Familiarity with networking concepts, DevOps model.
• Work productively in a fast-paced, team-oriented Agile environment.
• Contribute to operational activities such as writing runbooks, troubleshooting, operations automation, and instrumentation for metrics and events.
• Good technical writing and communication skills. Engineers will need to be able to clearly write descriptions of operational issues and corrective actions for incidents.
• Experience with Agile methodology (Scrum or Kanban)
• Very strong analytical skills to identify problem root causes.
• Experience in collaborating with cross-functional teams like development, QA, product management, etc.
• Systematic problem-solving approach, combined with a strong sense of ownership and drive in resolving operations issues.
• Experience working under pressure to mitigate customer issues affecting service reliability, data integrity, and the overall customer experience.
• Monitoring, management, analysis, and troubleshooting of large-scale, distributed systems.
• BS/BE or MS/Mtech degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Hardware Engineering, or related field.
• 2+ years experience delivering and operating large scale, highly available distributed systems.
• 2+ years of work experience as a software, site reliability, customer support, or cloud operations engineer.

As a world leader in cloud solutions, Oracle uses tomorrow’s technology to tackle today’s problems. True innovation starts with diverse perspectives and various abilities and backgrounds.

When everyone’s voice is heard, we’re inspired to go beyond what’s been done before. It’s why we’re committed to expanding our inclusive workforce that promotes diverse insights and perspectives.

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Oracle careers open the door to global opportunities where work-life balance flourishes. We offer a highly competitive suite of employee benefits designed on the principles of parity and consistency. We put our people first with flexible medical, life insurance and retirement options. We also encourage employees to give back to their communities through our volunteer programs.

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Disclaimer:

Oracle is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer*. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Oracle will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to applicable law.

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