Work with Oracle's world class technology to develop, implement, and support Oracle's global infrastructure.As a member of the IT organization, assist with the analyze of existing complex programs and formulate logic for new complex internal systems. Prepare flowcharting, perform coding, and test/debug programs. Develop conversion and system implementation plans. Recommend changes to development, maintenance, and system standards.Leading contributor individually and as a team member, providing direction and mentoring to others. Work is non-routine and very complex, involving the application of advanced technical/business skills in area of specialization. BS or equivalent experience in programming on enterprise or department servers or systems.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 Social Cloud Operations team provides 24/7 technical assistance for managing the Oracle Social Cloud Production application platforms.Oracle Social Cloud is a scalable, enterprise-ready social relationship management solution that empowers brands to leverage the power of social media across their organizations.Businesses that use social relationship management (SRM) software effectively uncover customer insights that enable them to deliver relevant content and faster service across channels like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Weibo. Social cloud tools allow brands to listen, create, and engage at the speed of social with the consistency and transparency customers expect.As a member of the Clouds Operation team, you provide strategic technical assistance in the resolution of complex incidents affecting customer services. Will coordinate all efforts with other teams and document all actions taken.You will also work the development team in the deployment of new application releases.The candidate participates in the design, developing and deployment of new monitoring tools, and contribute and the tuning and scripting of the existing ones.You will take an active role assisting and mentoring other members of the team to strength their technical skills.What You'll DoService Ownership You will be part of the SaaS-Engineering team, whose mission is the shared full stack ownership of a collection of services and/or technology areas, with our Development partners.Ownership Scope As a SaaS Engineer, you will understand the end-to-end configuration, technical dependencies, and overall behavioral characteristics of the Social Cloud Services. In partnership with the Development team, you will have the responsibility to ensure that services are designed and delivered to be mission critical with focus on security, resiliency, scale, and performance.Service Design As the Oracle Cloud evolves; you will partner with the development team in defining and implementing improvements in service architecture, both current and future. As a SaaS Engineer, you will be an expert at articulating technical characteristics of your services and the dependencies between services and guide the Development team to engineer and add premier capabilities to the Oracle Cloud service portfolio.Operations Engineering You will understand and be able to communicate the scale, capacity, security, performance attributes and requirements of the SCS. You are a Subject Matter Expert, able to understand and communicate every characteristic of your service stack, such as:degradation and behavior under load of the services and their dependenciesend-to-end tuning needs, optimizing resource utilization, as load patterns fluctuateInstrumentation and metrics that clearly describe the service behaviorsscaling requirements and patternsresiliency and recoverability, ensuring that backup / restore and disaster recovery capabilities are implemented, tested and maintainedAutomation You will have a clear understanding of automation and orchestration principles, and will be eager to automate, wherever and whenever the possibility arises, while simultaneously eliminating technical debt. Automation must be part of your DNA.Prevention - Once you have expertly resolved an issue, you will immediately work on how to more quickly resolve the problem next time, with the goal to eventually prevent the problem happening ever againTechnical Experts - As service owner, you are the ultimate escalation point for complex or critical issues that have not yet been documented as SOPs for Level1 staff. You will usually get called in during major incidents, when the source of a problem is unclear. You will have the deep understanding of service topology and their dependencies required to troubleshoot issues and define mitigations.Broad Interests SaaS Engineers are a mix of sysadmins and development Engineers, and as such can understand and explain the affect of product architecture decisions on the ability to run as distributed systems. They are driven by professional curiosity and a desire to a develop deep understanding of their services and the technologies they depend upon.Required ExperienceWe are looking for experienced individuals with a BS in Computer Science and over 6 year of experience in a wide range of technical skills:ChefRubyProgramming languagesLinux OS, Scripting and System administrationAdvance troubleshooting skills to identify and resolve complex problemsStrong team work/collaboration withing and outside the Social Cloud Operations teamExcellent written and verbal communicable skillsAbility to work under pressure to resolve critical affecting live customersGeneral Skills:Network and storage systemsJenkins/HudsonRundeckGraphite/GrafanaLogstashKibanaKafkaHaProxy, NgnixDetailed description and Job RequirementsManage the production and pre-production SCS platformProvides technical support for issues affecting the SCS platform (Hardware/OS/Application)Monitor the SCS platform to identify and/or prevent incidentsDesign and implements tools to automate monitoring and system configurationCoordinate with other teams all efforts to keep the SCS platform stableJob: Information TechnologyOrganization: OracleTitle: SRE/Application EngineerLocation: United StatesRequisition ID: 19000GNM Associated topics: application, backend, back end, developer, matlab, perl, php, python, software development engineer, software engineer
