Senior Core Infrastructure Engineer, Fast Connect

Description

Join the Team Powering the Worlds Biggest Enterprises on Oracle Cloud!

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) FastConnect is a mission-critical cloud-native service that enables enterprises to establish ultra-high-speed (up to 400Gbps) low-latency and dedicated connectivity to Oracle Cloudwhether from their on-premises networks or through FastConnect industry partners. The worlds largest and most demanding enterprises rely on FastConnect to seamlessly accelerate their workloads leverage OCI applications and databases and create hybrid cloud architectures that span multiple clouds and global regions.

At the heart of this innovation the FastConnect Control Plane organization delivers cloud-scale geo-distributed web services that transform customer intent into powerful large-scale networking configurations. Our intelligent orchestration platform automates and expands FastConnects global capacity footprint enabling multi-cloud applications cross-region connectivity and seamless hybrid cloud experiences.

If you are passionate about building high-impact resilient and intelligent networking systems that empower OCIs biggest customers this is your opportunity to make a global difference. Join us and be part of the team redefining enterprise connectivity at scale!

As a Senior Software Engineer you should have the ability to understand complex problems and strike a good balance between business goals and technical implementations.

This is a collaborative fast-paced environment requiring strong communication and teamwork as well as the ability to adapt to shifting priorities. On a given day this role offers opportunities to lead development of new features update/upgrade existing features troubleshoot production interact with customers design and implement runtime monitoring testing auditing or metrics gathering. You should be comfortable at building complex distributed systems that interact with end users at one end and network infrastructure at the other. You should be passionate and highly skilled in programming and be able to write clean code consistently. The ability to optimize the code for improving performance and scalability when it is deployed in a cloud environment as a part of a distributed application is a critical requirement.

The ideal candidate will be a highly skilled software engineer who is self-driven detail oriented and possess strong written and verbal communication skills. They should be highly proficient at operating in a SaaS Cloud or Hybrid cloud environment.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities
System Design & Architecture - System Scalability:
Implements and contributes to the development for components of distributed systems that support horizontal and vertical scaling including leveraging distributed state management tools.
Optimizes code and/or systems for large-scale data processing in large-scale systems.
Implements scalability requirements for assigned components and reviews implementation of team members.
Leverages components of data plane platforms to handle large-scale data retrieval storage and processing.
Implements performance and load testing.
System Design & Architecture - System Reliability Design:
Collaborates with team to build fault-tolerant components capable of withstanding in-service updates by implementing redundancy replication and automatic failover mechanisms.
Applies recovery oriented computing principles to design components that effectively handle service disruptions.
Implements retry mechanisms circuit breakers and timeouts to help handle network unreliability.
System Design & Architecture - System Reliability Performance:
Implements tests and alarm configurations to proactively detect and address issues/failures.
Supports efforts to recover from failures by drafting and executing runbooks and operational procedures.
Builds and customizes dashboards telemetry systems and alerting mechanisms to monitor component health.
System Design & Architecture - Correctness / Availability:
Designs and implements functional requirements and testing for assigned features within an existing system.
Implements tests scenarios (e.g. fault-injection brown-out) to evaluate system correctness.
Implements standard data replication and synchronization techniques to maintain data integrity and availability.
Operational Troubleshooting & Incident Management:
Diagnoses debugs and resolves issues in system components to support ongoing operation.
Implements basic strategies to prevent interruptions ensuring no maintenance windows are required for customers and users when resolving issues.
Designs and implements automation scripts and tooling used to troubleshoot operational issues.
Participates in operational support rotations assisting in incident responses and root cause investigations.
Compliance & Security:
Applies advanced security measures to protect data and applications in multi-tenant environments including encryption and access controls.
Implements remediation plans to continuously improve security.
Collaborates with the team to ensure cloud infrastructure complies with relevant industry standards and regulations and that documentation is up-to-date
Automation & Change Management:
Maintains automation scripts and tools (e.g. Infrastructure as Code (IaC)) for managing cloud infrastructure.
Adheres to change management plans for patching updating and rolling back applications.

Core Responsibilities
Planning & Execution:
Track timelines with minimal supervision ensuring work is completed in a timely manner and is in alignment with project requirements.
Prioritize and adjust work as resources or timelines change with some guidance
Collaboration & Partnership:
Collaborates across teams to align on expectations and achieve shared objectives. Builds and maintains a comprehensive understanding of business stakeholder and/or customer needs to build and support effective partnerships. Actively listens to diverse perspectives and asks questions to ensure understanding of others.
Problem Solving:
Independently identifies and addresses standard and non-standard issues in accordance with standard practices escalating more complex issues as appropriate. Analyzes data and/or information from multiple sources to troubleshoot standard and non-standard errors. Contributes to knowledge sharing and best practices
Continuous Learning:
Embraces continuous learning by actively seeking to build knowledge and new skills and/or tools and staying current with industry trends and best practices. Seeks out and leverages feedback and training to improve skills. Contributes to a culture of continuous learning and knowledge sharing with team members..
Continuous Improvement:
Develops ideas and recommends updates to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of processes protocols and workflows within a team. Seeks input from team members on alternative approaches and methods for improving work.

Qualifications
Disclaimer:

Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements such as immunization/occupational health mandates and/or drug testing requirements.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $79200 to $209500 per annum. May be eligible for bonus and equity.


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 Oracles 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.

Career Level - IC3