What are the responsibilities and job description for the Oracle Database Administrator (Autonomous DB) position at Oracle?
The Autonomous Database Team is responsible for building the Cloud service framework powering various Oracle Autonomous. Database cloud services, including Autonomous Data Warehouse (ADW) and Autonomous Transaction Processing (ATP). The framework automates deployment, scaling and management of databases in the cloud. It is built on top of Oracle's Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Layer.
The Autonomous Database cloud service framework features APIs to handle all lifecycle management operations of databases. It also performs operations autonomously based on internal and external events. The team has the unique opportunity to make significant contributions to the full stack of Oracle technology, from database kernel to cloud service platform and to customer-facing portals.
You will be responsible for deploying fixes for the Autonomous Database service with a deep focus on architecture, production operations, performance management, deployment and release engineering. You will work with multiple cross-functional teams helping deliver new and outstanding experiences to our stakeholders while ensuring reliability and performance. The successful candidate will be expected to interface with both senior management and the various delivery teams across OCI and database security and compliance architecture team to define and maintain our compliance posture in an environment of increasing regulatory expectations and growth.
We are a dynamic and enthusiastic team with great emphasis on go-getters and proactive individuals.
Overview from oracle.com with links to other collateral:
https://www.oracle.com/autonomous-database/
Preferred Qualifications:
- At least a Bachelor’s degree, in Computer Science, MIS or another technical field, or equivalent work experience.
- Solid experience with Linux.
- Experience troubleshooting complex software and/or networking issues.
- Knowledge on Cloud computing architecture, primarily Identity, Compute and Networking
- Expert level experience, understanding, implementation and troubleshooting of Oracle Database technology including RAC, Dataguard, ASM, RMAN preferred.
- Development skills utilizing Python, shell, SQL, Terraform
- Prior DevOps or continuous delivery and deployment experience preferred
- Strong communication and analytical skills
- Proven ability to quickly learn new technical domains and then train others.
Career Level - IC3
Responsibilities:
In this role you will need to:
- Operate and performs maintenance to cloud database services running within the region.
- Assess, prioritize, and communicate risks and urgency to leadership and engineering teams
- Take ownership of the implementation and production operations of a wide array of core system platform solutions
- React to production deficiencies by continuously implementing automation, self-healing, and real-time monitoring to production systems
- Ensure thorough documentation of incidents through company-standard reporting methods.
- Stay informed of cloud infrastructure stacks
