Job Description
Who We Are
Automation and standardization are crucial for scaling cloud-based SaaS offerings to meet growing customer needs. The Platform Development and Automation team's Infrastructure-as-Code platforms ensure consistency, detect drift, and guarantee reliable delivery, empowering stakeholders to provision and maintain environments across regions and lifecycle stages. Our frameworks enable high-velocity configuration management at cloud scale, ensuring verifiability and reliability across a diverse fleet.
We develop tools and systems that directly support cloud infrastructure and empower operational teams to build and manage it. We are responsible for understanding business goals, identifying how software supports achieving them, and implementing best-of-breed solutions.
We focus on core principles of software development including design patterns, maintainability, reliability, and scalability. Regardless of experience or specialization, we are all software engineers first.
What You'll Do
- Develop configuration management solutions for mission-critical SaaS infrastructure to deliver safe, repeatable, verifiable changes at cloud scale
- Develop and maintain internal tools and forks of open-source software
- Design, develop, and maintain Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines
- Automate application upgrades at cloud-scale across a diverse fleet
- Enhance our Infrastructure-as-Code implementation and be a thought-leader as we implement best practices in this area
- Integrate automation solutions with existing tools and platforms including change management, security approval, and data visualization
- Develop automated configuration audit tools to provide visibility into infrastructure compliance
Skills You Have
Education and Work Experience
- Bachelor’s/master’s degree in computer science or equivalent work experience in a relevant field
- Production experience with configuration management tools such as Chef and Ansible
- Extensive experience in workflow automation (cloud infrastructure and/or on-premises) using Infrastructure-as-Code and Config-as-Code principles
- Track record of delivering assigned projects on time, using Agile and DevOps best practices
- Professional experience with operations and support processes and tools such as: Incident Management, Change Management, Ticketing Systems (Jira, Service Desk), Service Level Agreements, and Escalation processes
Technical Qualifications
- Advanced programming skills in Python and Ruby
- Experience creating, configuring, and using CI/CD pipelines for code testing and delivery
- Familiarity with cloud-native technologies such as containers and serverless development
- Familiarity with operating system configuration for Linux and Windows
- Familiarity with data aggregation and visualization tools such as OpenSearch and Grafana
Soft Skills
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Committed self-starter who thrives in a collaborative environment with personnel at all levels in the organization
- Strong analytical, planning, and organizational skills with an ability to manage conflicting priorities
- Experience creating runbooks and troubleshooting guidelines and workflows for others to follow
- Ability to work independently, defining and managing one’s own work while still providing transparency and accountability to management and stakeholders
- Curiosity and a thirst for learning
- Passion for technology and customer service
- Aptitude for suggesting process improvements when applicable
You are the Perfect Candidate if…
In addition to the knowledge, skills, and experience listed above, you will score some extra points if:
- You have designed, developed, and maintained automation systems in a large-scale SaaS environment
- You have expert command-line fluency in Linux and Windows
- You have experience working with a global team across multiple geographic locations and time-zones
- You have experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tooling such as Terraform
- You are familiar with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure including full stack lifecycle management
- You have familiarity with network protocols and network configuration.
- You have working knowledge of multiple scripting/automation languages (Go, PowerShell, Perl, etc.)
Career Level - IC4
Qualifications
Disclaimer:
Certain US customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization and occupational health mandates.
Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only
US: Hiring Range: from $94,200 - $223,500 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.
Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.
Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:
- 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. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
- 11 paid holidays
- Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
- Paid parental leave
- Adoption assistance
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Financial planning and group legal
- Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance
The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.
About Us
As a world leader in cloud solutions, Oracle uses tomorrow’s technology to tackle today’s problems. True innovation starts with diverse perspectives and various abilities and backgrounds.
When everyone’s voice is heard, we’re inspired to go beyond what’s been done before. It’s why we’re committed to expanding our inclusive workforce that promotes diverse insights and perspectives.
We’ve partnered with industry-leaders in almost every sector—and continue to thrive after 40+ years of change by operating with integrity.
Oracle careers open the door to global opportunities where work-life balance flourishes. We offer a highly competitive suite of employee benefits designed on the principles of parity and consistency. We put our people first with flexible medical, life insurance and retirement options. We also encourage employees to give back to their communities through our volunteer programs.
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Disclaimer:
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 will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to applicable law.
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