at Oracle in Springfield, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Job Description
Our team delivers cross-team visibility and execution on the most challenging reliability issues impacting Oracle’s SaaS customers. We engage deeply with service owners and stakeholders to deeply understand and improve critical issues that impair service experience.
As a Senior Technical Product Manager, SRE (Site Reliability Engineering), you are one of the technical leaders within an SRE organization who partners with the development teams across various SaaS product lines. This role is a perfect intersection of passions for customer advocacy, long term engineering solutions and data driven problem solving.
About the Job A unique opportunity to join a rapidly growing world-class team to improve the cutting-edge Oracle Cloud technologies and infrastructure that make up the Oracle Cloud solutions. As part of this SRE team, you will be continually challenged and have an opportunity to contribute to the Oracle Cloud success every day, working closely with our development partners.
You will be part of a team that operates over 20,000 customer databases at up to 12 node deployments to support our Fusion SaaS offering. The scale and volume we run at is a unique opportunity.
As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will solve exciting technical challenges by analyzing, troubleshooting, and designing vital Oracle Cloud services, platforms, and infrastructure while always thinking about reliability, scalability, resilience, security, and performance. You will focus on engineering improvements to the systems that will eliminate whole classes of issues.
What You’ll Do – Service Accountability You will be playing product owner/product manager hats for the reliability of a collection of services and technology areas Advocacy- As a product owner you will be representing the needs of the customer and the business to our development partners.- Ownership Scope – As an SRE, you will understand the end-to-end configuration, technical dependencies, and overall behavioral characteristics of the production services you collaborate with. In partnership with your Development colleagues, you will have the responsibility to ensure that services are designed and delivered to be mission critical with a focus on security, resiliency, scale, and performance.- Operations Engineering – You will understand and be able to communicate the scale, capacity, security, performance attributes, and requirements of the services you own. We are subject matter experts, able to understand and communicate every characteristic of our service stack, such as:o degradation and behavior under load of the services and their dependencieso end-to-end tuning needs, optimizing resource utilization, as load patterns fluctuateo Instrumentation and metrics that clearly describe the service behaviorso scaling requirements and patternso resiliency and recoverability, ensuring that backup/restore and disaster recovery capabilities are implemented, tested and maintained- Automation – You will have a clear understanding of automation and orchestration principles, and will be eager to drive automation, wherever and whenever the possibility arises, while simultaneously eliminating technical debt. Automation must be part of your DNA.- Technical Experts – You will have a deep understanding of service topology and their dependencies required to troubleshoot issues and define mitigations. You will bring this expertise to bear in driving reliability improvements in the services you engage with.- Broad Interests – SREs are a rare mix of sysadmins and Development Engineers, and as such, can understand and explain the effect of product architecture decisions on the ability to run as distributed systems. They are driven by professional curiosity, and a desire to develop deep understanding of their services and their dependencies.- Cross-team collaboration – You will engage with and present to a wide variety of audiences, ranging from individual contributors and teams to executive leadership
Career Level – IC5
Responsibilities
What You Need to Have
+ Develop and manage the team roadmap; product management of ESS metrics improvements and calibration of these metrics; track and report on program milestones
+ Recommend and implement process improvements and serve as an escalation point for issues and questions
+ Coordinate with all stakeholders to build alignment, incorporate feedback, and drive results
+ Identify and define performance and health metrics using data-driven decisions
+ Define project requirements, scope, and priority based on input from team members and stakeholders
BS or MS in Computer Science, or equivalent
Knowledge of:
- Product ownership
- OKR driven product management
- Resiliency design and operation
- Optimizing loads of large volumes of data into a database
- Cloud computing patterns
- Methodical approach to troubleshooting complex problems
- Most importantly, the aptitude to be a good listener, team player and the willingness to learn and implement new Cloud technologies as needed
Disclaimer:
Certain US customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization and occupational health mandates.
Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only
US: Hiring Range: from $114,500 to $251,600 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.
Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle’s differing products, industries and lines of business.
Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.
Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:
1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
2. Short term disability and long term disability
3. Life insurance and AD&D
4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
8. Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
9. 11 paid holidays
10. Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
11. Paid parental leave
12. Adoption assistance
13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan
14. Financial planning and group legal
15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance
The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.
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