Principal Systems Engineer

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, maintain, and enhance highly available enterprise infrastructure supporting business-critical applications.
• Administer Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), including: Virtual Machines, Bare Metal Compute, Load Balancers, Block Volumes, Object Storage, Identity & Access Management (IAM), High Availability architectures.
• Support cloud migration initiatives. Design clustering, load balancing, gateway, and failover solutions that eliminate single points of failure.
• Manage enterprise storage, including ZFS, block storage, and object storage.
• Configure and integrate Oracle Identity Cloud Service (IDCS).
• Install, configure, administer, and maintain Oracle Database environments.
• Perform backup and recovery using Oracle RMAN. Administer Oracle Grid Infrastructure. Perform database upgrades, patching, and performance tuning.
• Support Oracle PL/SQL applications and Oracle SQL development.
• Design and maintain XML data integration pipelines. Develop and maintain XSD schema validation frameworks. Modify and enhance XSLT transformation processes.
• Ensure data integrity across enterprise data exchange workflows. Support secure B2B integrations with external partners.
• Deploy and administer containerized applications using Docker and Podman. Troubleshoot container networking, permissions, and rootless container implementations.
• Develop infrastructure automation using Ansible. Automate operating system provisioning and Oracle database deployments. Support CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and Git repositories. Develop Linux shell scripting solutions.
• Maintain enterprise monitoring platforms including Prometheus, Grafana, and Elasticsearch. Monitor application performance and system health. Support incident management, root cause analysis, disaster recovery planning, and testing.
• Maintain and configure deployed environments. Configure and support Spring Framework, Spring Beans, and Spring Boot application environments.
• Provide Tier-3 support for mission-critical production systems. Support geographically distributed manufacturing locations. Coordinate with developers, infrastructure teams, business stakeholders, and external partners.
• Produce technical documentation and operational procedures. Mentor team members as appropriate.

Qualifications

• Extensive Oracle Database Administration experience.
• Strong Oracle SQL and Linux administration experience.
• Experience with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
• Experience designing highly available enterprise environments.
• Experience supporting mission-critical production systems.
• Experience with infrastructure automation.
• Experience with XML, XSD, and XSLT technologies.
• Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience with Oracle rack-based hardware and enterprise networking.