Senior Senior Site Reliability Developer

Are you someone with a passion for taking on big challenges? Are you interested in large-scale, highly distributed systems? If so, then Oracle’s Cloud Infrastructure team is for you. We’re looking for Site Reliability Engineers (SRE’s) to help build highly distributed systems, platform services and tools for a highly distributed multi-tenant cloud environment at massive scale. The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) team can provide you the opportunity to build and operate a suite of massive scale, integrated cloud services in a broadly distributed, multi-tenant cloud environment. OCI is committed to providing the best in cloud products that meet the needs of our customers who are tackling some of the world’s biggest challenges. This is a key role within the OCI USGOVOPS Tier3 team with a strong emphasis in building solutions that support the delivery of incident and problem management. We are looking for strong SRE’s to take on the challenge of engineering infrastructure solutions for scale and performance while providing strong guarantees of availability to our customers. Your team will have diverse expertise in systems, networking, and software development to provide the stability, performance, and reliability our customers need. You will build tools to address hard operational problems while enabling our service developers to remain agile and deliver feature changes. You will deliver the solutions that directly contribute to our customer’s success. A SRE will spend a significant amount of their time doing "ops" related work such as production issues and service on-call. When not working on operations the SRE is working on software engineering tasks such as design and development of systems that increase our reliability, scalability and reduce operational overhead through automation. The ideal SRE candidate is proficient programmer who has large breadth of knowledge and experience including areas such as networking, internet protocols and Linux systems. Our SREs are close partners with service owners in all aspects of service operations and ownership. We have a strong culture of innovation, collaboration and teamwork inspired by the DevOps philosophy. Career Level - IC3 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. 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 a develop deep understanding of services and technologies. Minimum Qualifications Possess and maintain US Citizenship. BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding or equivalent practical experience. Proficient with writing services/task automation in Python, Bash, Ruby, Perl, JavaScript, or Java Proficient with communication skills (writing, organization, learning exchange) Familiarity with core protocols (DNS, DHCP, HTTP, TCP) Deep knowledge of Linux internals and host-based networking Expert Linux/Unix performance and stability troubleshooting skills Experience with devising, managing, and extending monitoring solutions for large scale environments. Systematic problem-solving approach, strong communication skills, a sense of ownership and drive Deep understand of service metrics and alarms through the development of dashboards, service KPIs, alarming systems Experience working in an operational environment with mission critical tier one services with associated pager duty 5+ years managing large scale, highly distributed, services infrastructures 2+ years managing host virtualization technologies (KVM, Containers, Docker, etc.) Preferred Qualifications Experience supporting security applications, products and services in a cloud environment. Familiarization with USG system accreditation processes. Proficient in coding complex, distributed systems using Python, Ruby, Java, or C/C++ Deep knowledge of Networking (TCP, UDP, DNS, DHCP, IPSec) 3+ years of experience in production software development with Agile methodologies 3+ years managing host, network, or storage virtualization technologies Expert troubleshooting skills Expert fleet automation and management solutions