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Analyze, design develop, troubleshoot and debug software programs for commercial or end user applications. Writes code, completes programming and performs testing and debugging of applications.

As a member of the software engineering division, you will analyze and integrate external customer specifications. Specify, design and implement modest changes to existing software architecture. Build new products and development tools. Build and execute unit tests and unit test plans. Review integration and regression test plans created by QA. Communicate with QA and porting engineering to discuss major changes to functionality.

Work is non-routine and very complex, involving the application of advanced technical/business skills in area of specialization. Leading contributor individually and as a team member, providing direction and mentoring to others. BS or MS degree or equivalent experience relevant to functional area. 7 years of software engineering or related experience.

Oracle is an Affirmative Action-Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veterans status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

This is a remote/office based position which may be performed anywhere in the United States except for within the state of Colorado.

ORACLE CORPORATION / Opower

Utilities Global Business Unit (UGBU) - Opower

Opower - Senior Cloud Database Administrator (DBA) / Architect

Arlington, VA location preferred - Open to remote work

At Oracle’s Utilities Global Business Unit (UGBU), our vision is to ensure that every global citizen has access to clean and affordable energy and water. The Opower software-as-a-service solution helps people be more energy efficient by delivering personalized energy insights to their energy use. We believe that by engaging customers about their energy use we can improve their relationship with their utility, help them save money on their energy bill, and reduce energy consumption around the world.

Opower Sr. DBA / Cloud DBA / Architect

Work with Opower Platform Application and Database team on the shared full stack cloud operations team. The Sr DBA / Cloud DBA / Architect will focus on maintaining and improving the Opower Databases – migrating from standalone systems to Oracle Cloud DBaaS over time.. The cloud architect will understand the end-to-end configuration, technical dependencies, and overall behavioral characteristics of production cloud database services.

Responsible for the design and delivery of the mission critical stack, with focus on security, resiliency, scale, and performance. Authority for end-to-end performance and operability. Partner with product development, and R&D in defining and implementing improvements in service architecture. Articulate technical characteristics of services and technology areas and guide development teams to engineer and add premier capabilities to the Opower 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 customer issues. Utilize 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. Identifies solutions to knowledge of server hardware and software configuration, networking, standard internet services, scripting languages, cloud computing patterns, technology security and compliance.

Solve complex problems related to infrastructure cloud services and build automation to prevent problem recurrence.

Design, write, and deploy software to improve the availability, scalability, and efficiency of Oracle products and services. Design and develop designs, architectures, standards, and methods for large-scale distributed systems.

Work Closely with Customer and/or Partners to bring Production workload on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Facilitate service capacity planning and demand forecasting, software performance analysis, and system tuning.

Desired Skills/Experience

• 10 years of relevant experience in Oracle Database Administration and Data Management Platform

• 5 years of relevant experience with MySQL, supporting, operating, and maintaining it in a productionenvironment.

• Database Architect with extensive experience in Oracle RDBMS

• Oracle Database Migration using multiple tools & technologies

• Oracle GI (CW and ASM) and RAC

• Oracle Exadata

• Experience in Database Maximum Availability Architecture and it’s best practices

• Experience in Performance tuning of Oracle Database and SQL tuning

• Experience in Data Integration tools like Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) & GoldenGate

• Expertise and Experience in solution architecture of complex Data Management systems, including re-platform of such systems

• Experience in managing large Database Consolidation projects, including planning, architecture and execution

• Experience in Building and managing Linux OS systems with good understanding how the Linux kernel works (IO, Network, etc.)

• Experience of managing Cloud Databases in any public cloud platform (Oracle, AWS, Azure, etc.)

• Systematic problem-solving approach combined with a strong sense of ownership and drive.

• Working experience in IaaS stack of any major Public Cloud provider – Oracle, AWS, Azure, etc.

Additional skills preferred

• Scripting/coding skills (Shell, Perl and Python). Knowing Java, REST Architecture and JSON is aplus

• Chef experience a plus

• Secrets Management experience (Vault) a plus

• Preferred Educational Qualifications

• BS or MS in Computer Science, or equivalent or related technical field.

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Send CV/Resume to: zach.driscoll@oracle.com

Job: *Product Development

Organization: *Oracle

Title: Senior Cloud Database Administrator (DBA)

Location: VA,Virginia-Arlington

Requisition ID: 21000F5T

Other Locations: United States