Sr. SRE-Oracle DBA

About the role

We are constantly pushing to define and develop the end-to-end automation of complex workflows found in day-to-day management of the Recovery Service. This team will keep you learning and, on your toes, delivering mission critical services that our customers depend on.

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.

Responsibilities

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 effect of product architecture decisions on distributed systems. Professional curiosity and a desire to develop a deep understanding of services and technologies.

Requirements

• Must Possess U.S. CITIZENSHIP and ACTIVE TS/SCI W/POLY SECURITY CLEARANCE
• Willing to work Shifts and Weekends

Skills

• Strong experience with Oracle Database (11g/12c/19c or later)
• Expertise in RMAN backup and recovery, including restore and disaster recovery scenarios
• Hands-on experience with Oracle RAC and/or Data Guard
• Solid Linux/Unix administration skills (RHEL, Oracle Linux)
• Shell scripting (Bash)
• System performance tools (top, vmstat, iostat)
• Strong SQL and PL/SQL skills
• Experience with performance tuning (AWR, ASH, execution plans)
• Knowledge of Oracle architecture (SGA, PGA, redo/undo, etc.)
• Experience with database patching and upgrades
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills

Qualifications

Prior SRE experience managing production cloud services and prior experience in releasing and maintaining cloud services are preferred but not required.

Production experience managing systems or database environment and experience with a general-purpose systems language such as: Python, Perl, Unix Shell and/or database language SQL, PL/SQL, Rust are also preferred.

Benefits

• 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.
• 11 paid holidays
• Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire.
• Paid parental leave
• Adoption assistance
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Financial planning and group legal
• Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

Pay

Hiring Range in USD from: $102,300 - $209,500 per year. 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.