DevOps Software Engineer

About the position

Seeking a Senior Software Developer to meet the support needs of the Oracle Linux, Virtualization, and Systems organization. This candidate will join the Systems Lab Operations (LabOps) team in development software solutions for configuring and managing the IT environment used to enable product development efforts for Oracle Linux, Virtualization, Cloud, Solaris, and Engineered Systems. The applicant will utilize their software development skills along with their knowledge of system administration roles to re-architect and automate routine systems administration tasks and help develop infrastructure as code style solutions to ensure consistency and scalability of support processes and solutions.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, troubleshoot and debug software programs for databases, applications, tools, networks etc.
• Take an active role in the definition and evolution of standard practices and procedures.
• Define and develop software for tasks associated with the developing, designing and debugging of software applications or operating systems.
• Provide direction and mentoring to others as a leading contributor individually and as a team member.

Requirements

• Expertise as a Software Engineer with knowledge and experience in developing solutions for cloud, security, system administration, IaaS, etc.
• Strong understanding of traditional monolithic and cloud-native application frameworks.
• Understanding of security principles related to networking and cloud security.
• Ability to derive and implement solutions applicable to both on-prem and cloud resources.
• Experience planning and delivering cloud migration projects from traditional on-premise deployment models.
• Experience integrating cloud-native alerting and monitoring solutions.
• Ability to translate workload requirements into public cloud or hybrid cloud technical architecture, incorporating Compute, Networking and Storage requirements.
• Proven understanding of common web service design patterns such as REST.
• Curiosity and willingness to learn new skills, work with new tools, and discover and deliver new and innovative approaches to solving complex technical challenges.
• Cloud experience and/or certification (Oracle, AWS, Azure, Google, etc.)

Nice-to-haves

• Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) experience.
• Networking (Understanding DNS, Firewalls, TCP/IP….)
• Oracle DB, Oracle MySQL or other database technologies.
• Kickstart and Jumpstart configuration and administration.
• Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) projects such as helm, fluentd, Prometheus, grafana, flannel, calico, istio.

Benefits

• 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.
• Flexible Vacation and paid time off.
• 11 paid holidays.
• Paid sick leave.
• Paid parental leave.
• Adoption assistance.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• Financial planning and group legal.
• Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance.