DescriptionPartners with customers, sales, engineering and product teams to design, demonstrate and deploy Oracle Cloud architectures that address customer business problems. Drives Oracle Cloud customer consumption by accelerating the adoption of Oracle cloud services including discovery, design and deployment.
Responsible for participating in customer engagements to collaboratively design and implement solutions. May work directly with customers to gather requirements, develop architectures and translates business needs into solutions. Implements solutions and ensures successful deployments through code development and scripting. Displays product/application understanding through more customized presentation demonstrations to customers and at conferences and events. Supports customer from Proof of Concept (POC) through production deployment of services via resource configuration, planning, and customer education/training. Creates and distributes technical assets (white papers, solution code, blog posts, and video demonstrations). Serves as a technical point of contact for customers and sales on technical cloud solutions and customer success. Further builds business and technical acumen.
Minimum qualifications include: 5 years experience with computer applications and tools required. Ability to travel 25% international and domestic.
Preferred but not required qualifications include: Bachelor of Science-level university degree in Computer Science, Math, Engineering from accredited university; and/or relevant 5 years technical experience. Expertise in system and application design; Written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills; Needs analysis, positioning, and business justification; Solving technical problems with customers in technical environments.
ResponsibilitiesOracle Cloud Engineer – MySQL/PostgreSQL focus
The Mission
You will work as part of Oracle's Cloud Engineering team to work with our customers on migration plans and strategies to move workloads to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). You will work with internal Oracle Cloud offering teams, including cloud architects, implementation engineers, Product Management, Development, and sales to craft highly scalable, flexible and resilient enterprise blockchain based solutions and plans that address customer business problems and accelerate the adoption of OCI services. In collaboration with sales, you will drive revenue and consumption growth across a broad set of customers, help our customers accelerate adoption of OCI – e.g Blockchain, Compute, Storage, Network, Containers, Analytics, Integration, Monitoring, Security – and successfully migrate customer applications from on premise or create new OCI deployments.
Responsibilities
- Ability to translate high-level requirements into actionable solution architecture.
- Ability to work with minimal supervision in order to be effective.
- Take an active hands-on approach to all aspects of the solution lifecycle including requirements specification, technical design, prototype development and testing.
- Communicate your progress, and shape how your solution can be implemented in production environments.
- Minimize accumulation of technical debt within any component designed, built; utilize emerging cloud standards when appropriate, and implement optimizations that can increase automation for future development.
Key skills
- Experience in install Administer, develop, test, or demonstrate MySQL or PostgreSQL databases
- Experience in database functions across one or more teams or clients, including designing, implementing and maintaining new databases, backup/recovery and configuration management
- Understanding of MySQL underlying storage engines, such as InnoDB and MyISAMDatabase
- Programming experience, particularly in NodeJs, Python and/or Java
- Experience with continuous integration and deployment processes, working on both greenfield and existing architectures (including strong Git, GitHub experience).
- Good written and verbal communication skills – needed for communicating with a wide range of people, both internally and occasionally externally in a professional manner.
- Experience with deploying database solutions in a cloud environment using managed service cloud databases
Additional Desirable skills/attributes
- Knowledge of streaming and queueing such as SQS, RabbitMQ, Kafka.
- A good understanding of microservice architecture/MongoDB/AWS/RPC.
- Knowledge of any of Docker, Kubernetes,
- Experience of working in a dynamic environment often with shifting priorities.
- Exposure to Test driven development, behavior driven development, test automation, secure by design approaches.
- Exposure to large scale, high volume, multi-threaded and highly distributed systems.
- Involvement in open-source development and may even contribute to one or more repos.
Personal strengths
- A self-starter, efficient and innovative.
- An original thinker.
- An enthusiastic and able problem-solver.
- Enthusiastic team player with the ability to lead where appropriate.
- A keen learner with a strong desire to upskill in a variety of software development techniques.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Advanced degree required - University
- Current Cloud Architect certification (Oracle, AWS, Azure, Google, etc.) preferred
