Technical Operations Engineer

Job description

ABOUT ORACLE CLOUD Oracle Cloud is the first public cloud built from the ground up to be a better cloud for every application. By rethinking core engineering and systems design for cloud computing, we created innovations that solve problems that customers have with existing public clouds. We accelerate migrations of existing enterprise workloads, deliver better reliability and performance for all applications, and offer the complete services customers need to build innovative cloud applications.

There are six key reasons customers are choosing Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) for all their cloud workloads.

ABOUT THE TEAM

Oracle Cloud’s Government, Defence, and Intelligence team is a smart, motivated, and diverse group that is focused on bringing the world’s most important work to OCI. We build and operate our government, classified, and sovereign cloud regions to be reliable and high-performance, just like our public cloud. Our customers and their mission are the center of what we do. We strive to improve our knowledge of the challenges our customers face which we use to enhance our cloud capabilities and work together to deliver their mission.

JOB DESCRIPTION

We're looking for a Technical Operations Engineer responsible for the operation of production environments, including systems and databases, supporting critical business operations. You will perform administration and analysis for multiple production environments and learn new and novel solutions to improve availability, performance, and supportability. This is an opportunity to gain a combination of technical, administration, and analysis knowledge of Oracle's Cloud Infrastructure and provide escalation support to a wide range of complex production environment problems related to immense growth, scaling, leveraging the cloud, extremely high performance, and high availability requirements.

OCI IN Northern Ireland As cloud investment in Northern Ireland continues to grow, companies and governments are moving more mission critical workloads to cloud, and Oracle is ensuring full support to our customers with our offerings.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Install, monitor, maintain, support, and optimize all production server hardware and software. Provide escalated technical support for complex technical issues which may include leading problem management cases and providing management status. Coordinate escalated support cases and lead appropriate internal technical resources and/or third-party vendors to resolution and coordinate a storage infrastructure of Oracle system and database appliances.

Responsible for Oracle production environments; assist with server operating system and application upgrades, bug fixes, and patching; and work on standardization projects for both hardware and software under the Oracle technology stack while providing consistent system uptime as expected in a Cloud environment. Provide on-call support on a rotating basis.

REQUIREMENTS

This role is open to United Kingdom Nationals only, with the role residing in Northern Ireland. This role will involve the successful applicant working on government projects which may require security clearance being obtained and maintained as a condition of employment. Candidates applying for this role must be willing to provide necessary personal details for the application and maintenance of necessary security clearance.

Experience with Linux System Administration, Kubernetes, Cloud, Exadata, Networking, Database, Storage, Compute, Virtualization and Troubleshooting Experience participating in or running incident bridges. Customer focus, passion for delighting customers. Experience in cloud technical support, operations, incident management is preferred, but not required. Demonstrate ability to quickly learn new technical disciplines.

Qualifications

Career Level - IC2