Job Description
The role is fully remote, on full employment contract
We are looking for a strong Senior Oracle DBA to join our team as a DBA / Site Reliability Engineer who will help ensure the availability of our Cloud Services 24x7x365. The role's only required experience is in Oracle Database administration, but any experience in SRE/DevOps is very appreciated.
In this role, you would be doing a mix of DBA and Site Reliability Engineering so it's a perfect chance to gain working experience in SRE and expand the skillset. It would also be a great opportunity to transition into Site Reliability Engineering.
On-call is not currently present but may be implemented in the future.
Experience we are looking for:
- Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related fields or equivalent experience.
- Experience with Oracle DBA, Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), and on-call rotations, working on highly scalable distributed systems
- Experience with Linux OS
- Experience with Oracle Database, RAC, DataGuard
- Experience with Exadata
- Experience with Oracle Database Performance Tuning
- Experience with Oracle Sharding is preferred but not required
- Experience with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure or other Cloud Service Provider,
- Experience in cloud technical support, operations, NOC, or similar is preferred, but not required
- Experience troubleshooting complex software and/or networking issues
- Customer obsession, passion for delighting customers
- Experience working with government customers is preferred, but not required
- Proven ability to quickly learn new technical domains and then train others
- Great verbal and written communication skills
- Willingness to learn:
- Orchestration/automation tools (Ansible, Terraform, Chef, etc.)
- Container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Deploying code using CI/CD tools like Jenkins, within change management procedures
Willingness to learn:
- Orchestration/automation tools (Ansible, Terraform, Chef, etc.)
- Container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Deploying code using CI/CD tools like Jenkins, within change management procedures