Cloud operations engineer
Description
The cloud operations engineer will use their knowledge of system architecture and administration to provide operational support for business critical systemsBased upon strategic direction and initiatives the candidate must be able to deliver successful results for agreed upon objectives.
A thorough knowledge of it concepts, strategies and methodologies is essential.
This position requires excellent oral and written communication skills, strong customer service focus, and ability to work in a team as well as independently, ability to learn on the fly, ability to follow procedures, and ability to suggest improvements to existing procedures as appropriate.
Us citizenship is required for this position.
Qualifications
€¢ bachelors degree in information technology, computer science or equivalent work experience.
€¢ five or more years experience providing operations support for enterprise environments.
€¢ itil foundation certification preferred.
Required skills
€¢ linux operating system (oracle linux, redhat linux)
€¢ shell & python scripting
€¢ x64 server administration
€¢ san / iscsi attached storage administration
€¢ linux lvm management
€¢ general understanding of networking and network principals
€¢ general understanding of storage administration principles
€¢ docker
€¢ xen virtualization
€¢ iaas / paas administration
Optional but desirable skills
€¢ oracle database administration
€¢ application middleware administration
€¢ lan switch (cisco, juniper) administration
€¢ storage array administration
€¢ backup / restore administration
€¢ oracle enterprise manager
Certifications
€¢ all certification a plus
Deliverables
Candidate will be responsible for delivering linux systems administration and engineering system services to customersThe candidate will also be responsible for interacting with customer counterparts on a regular basis and serving as the technology expert on the customer’s behalfThis service is delivered via remote support and the candidate should be able to work in an independent environment while interacting with other team members remotely.
This position requires participation in a 24x7 schedule that requires working on either saturday or sunday.
Dress code
There is no formal dress code for this position, however the candidate will be required to follow customer dress codes in the event that they will be asked to travel to the customer site.
Travel
Travel may be required for training or as needed at the customer’s requestThe candidate should have a valid driver’s license and a passport for the ability to travel upon request.
Solve complex problems related to infrastructure cloud services and build automation to prevent problem recurrenceDesign, write, and deploy software to improve the availability, scalability, and efficiency of oracle products and servicesDesign and develop designs, architectures, standards, and methods for large-scale distributed systemsFacilitate service capacity planning and demand forecasting, software performance analysis, and system tuning.
Solve complex problems related to infrastructure cloud services and build automation to prevent problem recurrenceDesign, write, and deploy software to improve the availability, scalability, and efficiency of oracle products and servicesDesign and develop designs, architectures, standards, and methods for large-scale distributed systemsFacilitate service capacity planning and demand forecasting, software performance analysis, and system tuning.
Work with site reliability engineering (sre) team on the shared full stack ownership of a collection of services and/or technology areasUnderstand the end-to-end configuration, technical dependencies, and overall behavioral characteristics of production servicesResponsible for the design and delivery of the mission critical stack, with focus on security, resiliency, scale, and performanceAuthority for end-to-end performance and operabilityPartner with development teams in defining and implementing improvements in service architectureArticulate technical characteristics of services and technology areas and guide development teams to engineer and add premier capabilities to the oracle cloud service portfolioUnderstand and communicate the scale, capacity, security, performance attributes, and requirements of the service and technology stackDemonstrate clear understanding of automation and orchestration principlesAct 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 mitigationsUnderstand and explain the affect of product architecture decisions on distributed systemsProfessional curiosity and a desire to a develop deep understanding of services and technologies.
A bs or ms in computer science, or equivalentIdentifies solutions to knowledge of server hardware and software configuration, networking, standard internet services, scripting languages, cloud computing patterns, technology security and complianceExperience running large scale customer facing web servicesIdentifies solutions to understanding of load balancing technologies and experience with development in programming languages, databases and big data stores, and container technologiesWork involves defining and documenting technical architecture of complex and highly scalable productsA minimum of 5+ years experience of running large scale customer facing web services.
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