Principal Site Reliability Developer 5

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• Principal Site Reliability Developer 5 - 19000CL4Preferred QualificationsJob Title: Service Reliability Developer (SRD) Cloud Service CentreGrade: IC 5 or above based on skills & experiencePurpose: As a Service Reliability Developer (SRD) you will be focused on improving service reliability through automation increasing performance and operability of Oracle Cloud Services through smart scalable repeatable solutions and driving innovation back through the software development lifecycle.You will have your hand on the pulse of the service and will play a key role in troubleshooting and resolving service issues.You will create future automation and tooling that will allow us to continuously improve our service.Your role in driving improvements in availability effort and velocity will delight our customers while reducing costs of operations.Location: UK-Reading / California-Redwood City / India-Bengaluru / Prague-CzechiaDescription: We are looking for a Service Reliability Operator (SRD) who will ensure the availability and resiliency of our Cloud services 24x7x365. The ideal candidate will always have a pulse on the Oracles SaaS services and be directly accountable for the troubleshooting and resolution of service issues while continuously developing solutions to improve telemetry and automation.Your goal is to improve availability by reducing time to mitigate through software development ensure we are measuring the right things and automating tasks that impact development velocity availability or productivity.You will leverage excellence in communication technical/business analysis problem solving and attention to detail to methodically resolve issues. Technically you will understand the full stack of the services you support (Network to Application) and are able to dig deep into the service to determine how to best mitigate customer impact.Further you will drive improvements through the development of solutions and engage partner teams to drive down incident counts reduce severity of events and minimize Time to Mitigate. You will help create a Site Up culture across all Oracle Cloud teams.We look to the SRD to continually review and enhance systems methods and applications to enable the delivery of a positive customer experience to highly acclaimed hosted SaaS products.As a member of the Oracle Cloud Service Centre team you will be surrounded by willing to help individuals representing some of the brightest and most innovative minds in the industry. You will be a part of an organization that prides itself on providing training empowerment and career progression.Responsibilities:Automate the process of proactive service checks and enhance smart monitor/triage tools that span automated machine response system/application alerts E-mails and phone calls to ensure appropriate priority and response.Gather data from service impacting events from multiple signals including phone E-mail service telemetry and alerting to build predictive models and automatic actions.Communicate with professionalism and precision to internal and external customers during high priority situations.Identify and work with engineering to implement opportunities for automation signal-to-noise reduction recurring issues and other actions to reduce time to mitigate service impacting events and increase the productivity of Cloud Operations and Development resources.Manage the coordination documentation and tracking of critical incidents ensuring rapid and complete issue resolution and appropriate closed loop to customers and other key stakeholders.Work upstream with Service Operations and Development to develop and maintain standard operator procedures and troubleshooting guides that improve time to mitigate.Participate in project delivery aimed at increasing capabilities around monitoring notification configuration and deployment of servers and applications within the Oracle Cloud Platform.Assist in the training and development of more junior team members.Knowledge Skills Abilities and BackgroundAble to work as part of a shift in a 24x7x365 operations team.Must be willing to work non-standard work shift (though primary shift is daytime) including evenings holidays and weekends on a rotation basis.University degree (or minimum College diploma) in the field of computer science or equivalent or 5 years equivalent work experience in infrastructure systems engineering or development environment.Excellence in verbal and written communication. Ability to communicate with all levels during critical events.Strong Technical background with an ability to troubleshoot issues impacting large scale service architectures and application stacks.Demonstrable experience in one or more scripting/programming languages: Powershell Python Perl PHP etc.Familiarity with TCP/IP protocols firewall management and database administration.Experience installing configuring and maintaining Linux Linux services and Linux networking.Configuration and maintenance of applications such as Apache Memcached Squid MySQL NFS DHCP NTP SSH DNS and SNMP.Excellent knowledge of JIRA Confluence.Good interpersonal skills with ability to present ideas in business-friendly and user-friendly language. Team oriented.Highly self motivated and directed with keen attention to detail.Proven analytical and problem-solving skills with strong customer service orientation.Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment.Maybe consider changing the title to Service Reliability Developer or Service Reliability Engineer or System Reliability Developer. If we are looking for people to code automation we should make sure the job title reflects the outcome we desire.

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