Senior Linux System Engineer- Exadata

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Position Summary

"Exadata (https://www.oracle.com/engineered-systems/exadata/) is the best cloud database platform and Oracle Exadata Cloud Service combining ADB and Exadata delivers the most powerful database platform to Oracle cloud customers. Exascale is a newly added member to Oracle engineered system family to provide agile, efficient, scalable and high-performance storage solution in Oracle Cloud Service, as well as lower the service cost.

This senior position is created to hire an experienced engineer in engineered system stress testing team to guard the quality of the engineered system Oracle Database software releases. The job includes test developing for engineered system features, reviewing Engineered system defects in cloud platforms and improve respective test coverage, enhancing test automation and report creation, and streamlining engineering system software release process.

Key Objective

1. Understand full stack of cloud service, including platform, OS, virtualization, cluster and Oracle database
2. Study functional and design documents of Oracle cloud features
3. Define quality criteria of Oracle cloud services
4. Analyze cloud traffic and statistical reports to extract usage patterns
5. Design cloud service test cases and compose test documents
6. Orchestrate and deploy automated test cases
7. Communicate improvements requirement with development teams
8. Verify that service security, availability, scalability and performance are maintained with configuration and code changes

Qualifications

1. Bachelor or Master Degree in Computer or Engineering or Science majors (Mathematics / Physics / Statistics and more).
2. Over 5 years of experience in Linux or related technical skill.
3. Must be expert at least 2 of the following domain knowledge:
4. Linux performance / kernel tuning
5. Networking
6. Storage
7. Shell scripting
8. Following are nice to have but not required
9. Experiences in large scale production system
10. Oracle DB
11. Exadata experience is a big plus
12. Operating System Internal

Interpersonal

1. Good problem-solving skills, always curious and willing to learn are the most important.

2. Self-motivated, responsible, quick learner, team player, and attention to detail.

3. Ability to multitask, have a positive attitude, and deliver under pressure.

4. Good verbal and written communication skills in English.