• Administration of Oracle Private Cloud Appliance (PCA), an on premises Private Cloud platform.
• Provide advanced Linux system administration/support for mission-critical systems. (OEL-Oracle Linux/RedHat).
• Administration and support of Oracle Engineered Systems including Exadata, Private Cloud appliance (PCA) and ZFS storage system administration.
• DevOps support with Ansible automation including Dockers/Containers.
• Build, provision, onboard, administration, and support of Linux Virtual (VMs) on Virtualization/cloud platform such as private cloud appliance (PCA) or VMWare • Design storage strategies, LVM management, patching, backup, and recovery strategies with tools such as TSM/Commvault
• Supporting Networking needs of system administration.
• Adaptation of best practices/CIS standards and Performance tuning of servers and automation
• User administration, Security/Access Control/Hardening/Resource monitoring and scaling of RHEL / OEL Linux infrastructure
• Annual attestation of audit and compliance requirements and support Disaster Recovery DR) exercises
• On-call rotation, Production support, troubleshooting, upgrades/migrations and attending ServiceNow tickets
• Support software/firmware software concurrency and quarterly and ad-hoc patching cycles
• Act as a liaison serving as primary point of contact between database administrators/Project Teams and Oracle Appliance/Engineered system administration team • Install and support highly scalable, available, reliable, and secure Infrastructure platform for database/business applications
• Anticipate customer needs and proactively develop solutions to meet them by applying analytical skills and engineering solutions.
• Uphold enterprise policy guidelines and recommend new / improved guidelines • Serve as a key resource on complex and / or critical issues and develop innovative approaches/Serve as Subject Matter Expert, and mentor
• Working with Monitoring tool sets such as Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM)/Zabbix/Splunk/HP/Grafana etc.
Required Qualifications:
• Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience
• 3+ years of experience in Oracle Private Cloud Appliance.
• 7+ years of strong and advanced Linux (RedHat or Oracle) system administration experience.
• 3+ years of strong DevOps experience with Ansible/GitHub automation and Docker experience.
• 7+ years of experience with Virtualization/Cloud platform and experience in building and managing Linux OS systems with strong understanding of how the Linux kernel works.
• 3+ years of experience with Oracle Engineered System administration such as Exadata, PCA.
• Strong Automation and Scripting skills (such as Shell, Perl and Python)
• Working in team setting and strong in customer relationship and documentation/report generation.