The Oracle A-Team is a specialist group within Oracle Product Development working at the forefront of Oracle's world class cloud technologies. We are seeking a highly passionate Cloud Ops/SaaS Ops Solution Architect to work in our team with a balance of advanced technical skills with excellent communication skills.
Oracle’s A-Team is an elite team within Oracle Product Development is seeking a highly energetic SaaS Ops Solution Architect to join our team.
We are seeking an exceptional technical leader with extraordinary attention to detail. The ideal candidate will be excited about staying at the forefront of technology trends, applying a multi-disciplinary approach, actively participating in coding tasks, and possessing an in-depth understanding of new cloud technologies.
A successful applicant will have a thorough understanding of communication and be able to effectively communicate with upper management, customers, and the members of the team knowing that the audience will range from those who have a very limited understanding of technology to those who are on the world forefront of Cloud ecosystems.
She or he must have problem-solving skills with the ability to develop and analyze options/hypotheses objectively, applies industry-leading practices, and facilitates negotiations/discussions involving groups of diverse stakeholders.
The Oracle’s A-Team is part of Oracle’s Product Development Group helping Oracle's top customers and Oracle's Engineering teams with solution architecture. The position entails a high level of internal and external visibility with senior management. It involves contributing to and leading multidisciplinary projects focused on architecting, designing, and prototyping complex cloud solutions that involve Oracle Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a service (IaaS).
The primary focus of this role will be using modern engineering practices to architect and build distributed, reliable, maintainable SaaS solutions. Broad knowledge of security, networking, CICD, and cloud native technologies is required, any machine learning knowledge is desirable.
Career Level - IC4
Typical Duties and Responsibilities include:
- Design complex and innovative technical solutions leveraging Oracle Cloud offerings to address critical business requirements of our customers. Participate in highly technical discussions.
- Manages competing, quickly changing priorities effectively and handle input from many internal and external collaborators and stakeholders.
- Closely collaborate with high caliber peers and a variety of teams and groups in a highly dynamic environment – Developers, Product Managers, Senior Leaders, Pre-Sales, Consulting, Documentation, QA, among others.
- Identify recurring patterns and solutions and generalize these for broader re-use across the entire ecosystem – Oracle, Partners, and Customers.
- Identify common pain points in Oracle products and Solutions and propose alternatives to improve them.
- Code tools, prototypes, demos, and re-usable assets aimed at Product Development, Pre-sales teams, and post-sales teams.
- Establish relationships and feedback channels into product management and product engineering ultimately resulting in product improvements and innovations.
Desired Qualifications, Skills, and Experience:
- Experience in developing/operating/managing Enterprise SaaS offerings such as Oracle SaaS, Salesforce, Workday or even non-enterprise SaaS.
- Solid understanding of how to configure, deploy, manage, and maintain large cloud-hosted systems, including auto-scaling, container management, monitoring, automation, scripting, troubleshooting and disaster recovery.
- Strong hands-on experience working with at least one of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), AWS, GCP, Azure, or similar cloud providers.
- Highly motivated, self-starter with an eagerness to learn and a strong ambition to adapt to new technologies and methodologies.
- Exceptional analytical and critical reasoning skills capable of flexible and lateral thinking.
- You will have the ability to actively lead technical discussions with customers, partners, and other Oracle engineering teams.
- Fluency in one or more scripting languages such as Python.
- You should understand Open source and non-Oracle products and solutions.
- You will have a natural inclination to coach – through training, public forums, blogs, and conferences.
- Highly developed interpersonal, verbal communication and presentation skills; demonstrated comfort level for presentations to senior leadership level meetings.
Basic Qualifications:
- Computer Science or related field or a bachelor’s degree and comparable experience in software development, information technology, and data architecture.
- You will have a minimum of 10 or more years of experience in information technology with at least 4 years of experience in the Cloud
Work Environment:
We are a globally distributed team. This position offers a flexible work environment with options for both office-based and hybrid working arrangements. Our company values a healthy work-life balance, and we are committed to providing an inclusive and adaptable workplace.
