Overview
In this role you will design, build, and operate scalable database platform services powering OCI workloads. You will transform operational knowledge into software, creating automation and self-healing capabilities to boost reliability and scale. You’ll collaborate with DBAs, SREs, and service teams to deliver high-availability data platforms across global regions. You contribute to architecture, drive reliability and observability, and push for automation-first approaches. This is a chance to shape Oracle Cloud’s foundational data services and support large-scale, mission-critical workloads.
Pay / Benefits
- competitive benefits
- flexible medical
- life insurance
- retirement options
- volunteer programs
- accessibility accommodations
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and operate large-scale database platform services for OCI workloads
- Build highly available, scalable, and resilient distributed systems across global cloud regions
- Develop automation for provisioning, lifecycle management, monitoring, patching, upgrades, backup, recovery, and fleet operations
- Partner with database architects, SREs, and OCI service teams to meet stringent availability, performance, and durability targets
- Drive improvements in reliability, scalability, observability, security, and operational efficiency for Tier-0 cloud services
- Troubleshoot complex production issues spanning database internals, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and fleet operations
- Design and implement software solutions to optimize database performance, capacity utilization, and operational excellence
- Participate in architecture reviews, technical design discussions, and engineering initiatives for cloud-scale database platforms
- Leverage DBA expertise to influence software design, automation strategies, and operational best practices
- Contribute to evolution of OCI foundational data services that support core cloud offerings
- Eliminate manual tasks by building self-service workflows for provisioning, patching, upgrades, backup validation, failover testing, and decommissioning
- Develop “automate-first” solutions to reduce toil and improve reliability
- Build intelligent remediation systems that detect and resolve common database and infrastructure issues
Key requirements
- DBA and database systems expertise
- automation for provisioning, lifecycle management, monitoring, patching, upgrades, backup, recovery, and fleet operations
- distributed systems design and operation at cloud scale
- troubleshooting complex production issues across databases, distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure
- ability to influence software design and automation strategies with DBA expertise
- self-service workflow development for operational tasks
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