Senior Systems Engineer

Job TitlePerforms regular administration and conducts standard performance trend analyses and manages server capacity. Performs system configurations and backups independently. Implements monthly, quarterly, or hotfix patches to address security vulnerabilities or bugs across the technical stack. Deploys enhancements to improve the performance, reliability, and security of systems and environments. Resolves complex, critical customer system issues and implements and documents technical solutions. Implements disaster recovery solutions.Key ResponsibilitiesSystem Installation & Configuration – Software Administration:- Monitors and maintains operating systems to ensure effective installation and performance.- Administers middleware products in environments.- Supports the deployment, maintenance, and operation of internal applications as needed.- Performs regular administration and conducts standard performance trend analyses and manages server capacity to ensure service performance meets standards.- Leverages working knowledge of application monitoring tools to ensure efficiency.System Installation & Configuration – Installation and Configuration:- Installs and configures servers, cloud infrastructure, and all software and environments.- Performs system configurations and backups independently to ensure optimization of server infrastructure.- Supports hardware maintenance, auditing, installation, and provisioning as necessary.- Collaborates with internal technical experts and third-party vendors to resolve integration challenges.System Installation & Configuration – Identity & Access Management:- Administers access privileges in the identity and access management system to ensure accurate access to IT resources.- Monitors user activity in the identity and access management system and reports on system activity.- Learns to provision access management systems.Service Lifecycle Management – Batch Processing:- Monitors the batch process to ensure the updates are applied and triages any issues that arise.- Implements batch management using different work schedulers to configure jobs and job streams, define dependencies, and report job performance.- Ensures scheduling and budgets of batch monitoring services comply with Service Level Agreements (SLA).Service Lifecycle Management – Security Maintenance:- Follows existing procedures to provide assurance that compute and storage devices are secure.- Maintains privileged accounts/secrets integrity of systems and compute and file system security for the compute and storage environment.- Monitors and evaluates high-level service and infrastructure dashboards and takes action to address identified anomalies.- Implements monthly, quarterly, or hotfix patches to address security vulnerabilities or bugs across the technical stack.Service Lifecycle Management – System & Security Improvements:- Deploys enhancements to improve the performance, reliability, and security of systems and environments.Incident Management & Support – Incident Management:- Supports the end-to-end incident management lifecycle to ensure systems are stable, secure, and performing accurately.- Collates incident-based data for team metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs) by assisting with system and network incidents to identify patterns, root causes, and solutions.- Participates in incident review meetings to provide feedback for operational performance and solution implementation.- Partners with third party vendors and cross-functional teams (e.g., Development, Cloud Engineering, Product Engineering, other IT teams) to drive collaboration for implementation and/or resolution for high-severity incidents, risks, or migrations.- Investigates standard system issues and triages high-severity incidents by implementing Corrective and Preventative Action plans (CAPA) as instructed.Incident Management & Support – Escalation Cases:- Coordinates escalated support cases by collaborating with internal technical teams and third party vendors to drive issue resolution for a wide range of production environment problems (e.g., immense growth, scaling, leveraging the cloud, extremely high performance, high availability requirements).Incident Management & Support – Technical Support:- Proactively monitors the production environment by checking system error logs, monitoring ticket queues, and consulting with other teams involved in maintaining the environments.- Adheres to team schedule to contribute to ongoing technical support and service objectives.- Resolves complex, critical customer system issues and implements and documents technical solutions.Incident Management & Support – Backups and Disaster Recovery:- Leverages working knowledge of systems to perform backup, restore, and disaster recovery processes.- Participates in disaster recovery drills to ensure preparedness and compliance.- Implements disaster recovery solutions to ensure preparedness and regulatory compliance.Communication & Documentation – Technical Communication:- Communicates technical information to both technical and nontechnical personnel.- Serves as a technical liaison and provides domain-specific expertise to cross-organization projects, programs, and activities.Communication & Documentation – Documentation & Reporting:- Maintains documentation on ticket updates, code contributions, infrastructure, configurations, processes, and procedures (e.g., Disaster Recovery plans, Standard Operating Procedures, Corrective and Preventative Action Plans).- Generates weekly and monthly reports on system performance and incident progress to support operational and management outcomes, and builds an awareness of the business impacts.- Researches, proofs, and authors technical documentation in the area of standards and best practices for internal use.Additional Responsibilities (as needed)Cloud Infrastructure Support:- Collaborates with DevOps and Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) teams to provide support for large-scale infrastructure.- Implements continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines independently.- Performs patching and version upgrades independently to support cloud infrastructure.Automation:- Supports Workload Automation tools through design support, administration, and optimization efforts.- Troubleshoots issues with automation tools, agents, and other connectivity to 3rd party applications.- Maintains and supports cloud technologies.QualificationsDisclaimer:Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements. Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only.Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion2. Short term disability and long term disability3. Life insurance and AD&D4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match8. Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.9. 11 paid holidays10. Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.11. Paid parental leave12. Adoption assistance13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan14. Financial planning and group legal15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insuranceThe role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.Career Level - IC3