Principal Technical Cloud Operations Engineer

Oracle Corporation; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Oracle Corporation is seeking a Principal Engineer for its Singapore government projects. This role involves operating critical cloud environments, providing technical support, and guiding junior engineers. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience in cloud technologies and systems administration, along with a strong customer focus.

Qualifications

• 10+ years experience with Linux System Administration.
• Experience in cloud operations and SRE roles.
• Ability to train junior members in technical disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Install, monitor, maintain, and optimize all production server hardware and software.
• Provide escalated technical support for complex issues.
• Lead communications with key partners in solving technical problems.

Skills

Linux System Administration

Networking

Storage

Compute

Virtualization

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

Chef

Puppet

Job description

About the job

Description

At Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), we build the more intelligent future of cloud. OCI Sovereign Cloud is a team of smart, motivated, and diverse people that are 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.

As a Principal Engineer, you will be responsible for the operation of production environments, including systems and databases, supporting critical business operations for Singapore’s governmental sovereign cloud environment. You 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 Oracle's 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. As a Principal Engineer, you will also guide junior engineers to solve complex problems, take part in large-scale incident bridges and help to build new processes and procedures.

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.

• Lead communications with key partners in solving complex technical problems.

• Provide technical guidance and leadership to junior members to enable them to grow in their careers.

• This team will provide support and administration on a 24/7 basis and will require rotation across day and night shifts.

Requirements:

• This role is open to Singaporeans

• 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.

• 10+ years experience with Linux System Administration, Networking, Storage, Compute, and Virtualization

• An understanding of and experience working with technologies such as Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, Chef and Puppet.

• Experience participating in or running incident bridges of significant scale

• Customer focus, with a passion for delighting customers

• Experience in SRE, cloud technical support, cloud operations, NOC or similar

• Demonstrate ability to quickly learn new technical disciplines and then train others