Principal Site Reliability Developer - Database System Test

As part of the Oracle Database System Test Team, we are constantly and proactively looking into improving the products to achieve high availability and provide customer site resiliency and superb performance.

With a diverse array of stress, workload, destructive & certification testing for Oracle database and RAC cluster, Exadata engineering systems, Fusion applications, Fusion Middle Ware, Autonomous database, database component stacks, Cloud full stacks, Cloud offerings and business metrics, we are looking for a talented individual who is passionate on problem solving, can take on challenges of agile development and rapid delivery for the system testing components for a variety of Database products and Cloud services. And be able to define use cases into development specification. To develop and transform SRE automated frameworks to support a vast diverse group of engineers. Also proactive to improve on the scale and quality of frameworks and the interoperability with greater automation platforms.

If you have experience in development, a seasoned Site Reliability Engineer - supporting Cloud infra and automation at scale, excellent in analytics, metric and monitoring, able to derive failure simulation, conduct product certification and are security aware, you are in demand to join this dynamic team that strides for product development excellence.

Preferred Qualifications

• BS/MS in computer science or other relevant technical degree
• 7+ years of experience in product development using scripting, python, Java, Selenium
• 4+ years of product development, infrastructure and database support, Devops, SRE
• Experience object-oriented programming, unit testing, debugging, code organization
• Experience designing and implementing web services, APEX, ORDS, Rest-API
• Familiar with micro services Docker, Jenkins, Maven, Bitbuckets, git, Artifactory
• Experience developing UI automated test cases and orchestration workflow
• Experience Oracle Exadata engineering systems configuration and operation
• Experience development of monitoring events and metric capture
• Experience monitoring or analyzing billing and metering services
• Experience in general software, product and automation development
• Experience quality engineering and system test methodology
• Understand functional specification and feature requirement of test cases
• Experience developing test cases and deploying to a variety of automation frameworks
• Oracle DBA experience development support / production support is a plus
• Oracle 12c, 19c, RAC, Grid, fusion apps, enterprise manager, golden gate
• Solid RDBMS concepts and advanced SQL, PL/SQL tuning knowledge
• DB Level tracing like SQLNET, reviewing ASH data, SQL traces, AWR Reports
• Familiar with products features on Oracle RDBMS, Fusion and Cloud services and stacks
• In-depth Linux trouble-shooting knowledge, network and TCP/IP, load balancing, proxy
• Experience Oracle OCI infrastructure, provisioning, monitoring, SDK, CLI, telemetry
• OKE, Terraform, Chef, Ansible, Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, MySQL
• Scripting languages, Bash, Python, Java, XML, JSON, Typescripts, Selenium, Jenkins, Artifactory, Git, Bitbucket, HA-proxy, SSL Cert management, Jira, Confluence, Slack
• Experience Agile and Scrum methodology, CI/CD deployment cycles
• Experience conducting open source software evaluation and proof of concepts

Responsibilities

• Develop and support Site Reliability Engineer framework and automation
• Develop metric collection of failure events and analytics
• Analyze failure events, identify and dissecting failures by infrastructure layers and by service stack and by application components and their inter-relationship
• Provide recommendation to improve product development
• Research and develop new innovative test methodologies or frameworks
• Work with engineers to develop and automate test cases
• Provide support for components going onto OCI infrastructure
• Provide support on other SysTest QA test cases
• Provide best practice on frameworks, automation, methodologies
• Be a team player and encourage cross learning and cross functional support

Growth opportunities

• Become an expert in products that deliver scale and quality of UI QA automation
• Advance to expert developer with exposure to variety of programming languages
• Develop expertise in wide variety of product stacks and Cloud solutions
• Acquire in-depth domain knowledge in Oracle database technology and it’s internal
• Exposure to a variety of OS, engineering systems and infrastructure platforms