Systems Engineer 2

Oracle; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Oracle Bengaluru seeks an experienced IT systems administrator to join the OCI Compute team. You will install, monitor, and optimize production servers, manage OS upgrades, and drive high availability across large-scale deployments.

Role requires collaboration with product and development teams, automation using Chef/Terraform/GIT/Jenkins, and on-call support to ensure SLA-driven incident response and rapid problem resolution.

Qualifications

• 3+ years overall experience in IT industry.
• Minimum 3 years as System Admin/Support.
• Strong systems architecture skills.
• Proficient in Linux administration and networking.
• Experience with large-scale deployments.

Responsibilities

• Install, monitor, maintain, support, and optimize all production server hardware and software.
• Provide escalated technical support for complex issues and coordinate resolutions.
• Maintain high service availability and incident management per SLAs.
• Build and maintain deployment tools and procedures.
• On-call support in rotation.

Skills

Linux admin

System admin

Python scripting

Shell scripting

Networking

Cloud computing

Monitoring tools

Automation

CI/CD

Tools

Chef

Terraform

GIT

Jenkins

Artifactory

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Job Description

At Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), we build the future of the cloud for Enterprises as a diverse team of fellow creators and inventors. We act with the speed and attitude of a start-up, with the scale and customer-focus of the leading enterprise software company in the world. Compute is one of the core organisations within OCI. We are responsible for providing Compute power i.e. Virtual Machines and Bare Metals. Cloud pretty much cannot exists without our org. The Compute org comprises of a family of critical foundational infrastructure services that drive OCI's hardware lifecycle activities.

Work with product team on the shared full stack ownership of a collection of services and/or technology areas. Understand the end-to-end configuration, technical dependencies, and overall behavioural characteristics of production services. Responsible for the mitigating critical customer incidents, or deployments or testing required to improve security, performance, availability, and scalability of service. Authority for end-to-end performance and operability. Partner with development teams in meeting SLA to unblock customers. Articulate technical characteristics of services and technology areas and guide Development Teams to engineer and add premier capabilities to the Oracle Cloud service portfolio. Understand and communicate the scale, capacity, security, performance attributes, and requirements of the service and technology stack. Demonstrate clear understanding of automation and orchestration principles. Act as ultimate escalation point for complex or critical issues that have not yet been documented as Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs). Utilise a deep understanding of service topology and their dependencies required to troubleshoot issues and define mitigations. Understand and explain the effect of product architecture decisions on distributed systems. Professional curiosity and a desire to a develop deep understanding of services and technologies.

Responsible for the operation of production environments, including systems and databases, supporting critical business operations. Will perform administration and analysis for multiple production environments and recommend new and novel solutions to improve availability, performance, and supportability. This is an opportunity to bring a combination of deep technical knowledge with administration/analysis knowledge of Oracles Cloud Infrastructure to 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.

Required Skills

• 3+ years overall experience in IT industry
• Minimum 3 years of experience as a System Admin/Support
• Strong systems architecture skills
• Strong Linux administration (Understanding of different Hardware family)
• Virtualisation Technologies
• Scripting Language (Python/Bash/Shell etc, basic understanding of Java / Go will be good to have)
• Understanding of Networking, Cloud Computing, Load Balancers
• Hands on experience at Monitoring/Instrumentation tools (Prometheus/Grafana, new relic, elastic or equivalent).
• Experience with maintaining high scale deployments, managing high throughput and IO intensive services.
• Strong knowledge of system configuration tools such as Chef, Terraform, GIT, Jenkins/Hudson, Artifactory
• Continuous Integration development/deployment, e.g. Docker, Kubernetes

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.

Responsibilities include but not limited to:

• Incident Management
• Support and troubleshooting of Staging/Production environments
• Response and Resolve incidents as per SLAs
• Organise, Anticipate, Plan and work as On-Call in shifts for multiple services (Open to work in shifts & shows flexibility)
• Maintain Service High Availability
• Build and maintain deployment tools/procedures
• Zero downtime deployments and a high availability mindset
• Define and build innovative solution methodologies and assets around infrastructure, cloud migration and deployment operations at scale.
• Work with service teams to resolve complex issues that require troubleshooting and knowledge of code.
• Keep documentation up to date and resolving similar tickets with lower turnaround time and within SLA
• Ensure production security posture
• Ensure monitoring is robust and effective
• Change Management
• Perform Root Cause Analysis

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