Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Oracle Cloud is the first public cloud built from the ground up to be a better cloud for every application. By rethinking core engineering and systems design for cloud computing, we created innovations that solve problems that customers have with existing public clouds. We accelerate migrations of existing enterprise workloads, deliver better reliability and performance for all applications, and offer the complete services customers need to build innovative cloud applications. There are six key reasons customers are choosing Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) for all their cloud workloads.

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is a smart, motivated, and diverse group that is focused on bringing the world’s most important work to OCI. We build and operate all our cloud regions to be reliable and high-performance. Our customers and their mission are the center of what we do. We strive to improve our knowledge of the challenges our customers face which we use to enhance our cloud capabilities and work together to deliver their mission.

We’re looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer who will be responsible for the operation of production environments, including systems and databases, supporting critical business operations for Israel’s commercial cloud environment. The role will be focused on automation and optimization of operations for multiple production environments. You will recommend new and novel solutions to improve availability, performance, and supportability. This is an opportunity to bring a combination of deep technical knowledge with administration/analysis knowledge of Oracle's Cloud Infrastructure to provide escalation support to a wide range of complex production environment problems related to immense growth, scaling, leveraging the cloud, extremely high performance, and high availability requirements. As a Site Reliability Development/Engineering, you will also guide junior engineers to solve complex problems, take part in large-scale incident bridges and help to build and optimize processes and procedures.

Career Level - IC3

Responsibilities

• Development of automation and optimization’s focused on operational excellence. 
• Deep dive, root cause and solve for systemic issues.
• Enhance Operations quality outcomes through scalable automation.
• Install, monitor, maintain, support, and optimize all production server hardware and software.
• Provide escalated technical support for complex technical issues which may include leading problem management cases and providing management status.
• Coordinate escalated support cases and lead appropriate internal technical resources and/or third-party vendors to resolution and coordinate a storage infrastructure of Oracle system and database appliances.
• Responsible for Oracle production environments; assist with server operating system and application upgrades, bug fixes, and patching; and work on standardization projects for both hardware and software under the Oracle technology stack while providing consistent system uptime as expected in a Cloud environment.
• Lead communications with key partners in solving complex technical problems.
• Provide technical guidance and leadership to junior members to enable them to grow in their careers.
• This team will provide support and administration on a 24/7 basis and will require rotation across day and night shifts.

Requirements

• This role is open to Israeli nationals only.
• This role will involve the successful applicant working on public sector projects which may require security clearance being obtained and maintained as a condition of employment. Candidates applying for this role must be willing to provide necessary personal details for the application and maintenance of necessary security clearance.
• Experience with Linux System Administration, Networking, Storage, Compute, and Virtualization.
• An understanding or experience working in programming languages, such as Python, Java, Rust, or Go.
• An understanding and experience working with technologies such as Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, Chef, and Puppet.
• Experience participating in or running incident bridges of significant scale.
• Customer focus, with a passion for delighting customers.
• Experience in SRE, cloud technical support, cloud operations, NOC or similar.
• Demonstrate ability to quickly learn new technical disciplines and then train others.