Job Description
Oracle Linux System Engineer(OEL) in Jersey city, NJ/Plano,TX/Charlotte,NC/Chandler,AZ Hybrid onsite full time
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Job Summary
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Lead the administration monitoring and performance tuning of Oracle Linux environments with a focus on platform architecture automation and reliability engineering
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Job Description
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- Lead the administration, monitoring, and performance tuning of Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) environments in a large-scale enterprise ecosystem.
- Oversee the design, build, and lifecycle management of Linux servers, including storage, virtualization, and associated infrastructure.
- Manage high availability (HA) configurations, clustering, and load-balanced environments to ensure minimal downtime.
- Drive capacity planning, performance optimization, and system scalability initiatives.
- Define and implement Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles, including SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.
- Lead infrastructure automation initiatives using tools such as Ansible and Azure DevOps.
- Build and maintain self-healing systems to reduce manual intervention and improve system resilience.
- Develop automation for system installation, configuration, and deployment pipelines.
- Install, configure, and maintain Oracle Enterprise Linux operating systems and related software stacks.
- Manage Logical Volume Manager (LVM) configurations, including volume groups and filesystem expansion.
- Administer distributed file systems, NFS servers/clients, and automount configurations.
- Maintain network services such as DNS, NTP, LDAP/Kerberos, SMTP, and OpenSSH.
- Troubleshoot and support network protocols, including TCP/IP, HTTP, HTTPS, and RPC.
- Implement and enhance monitoring and observability frameworks for proactive issue detection.
- Lead incident response, root cause analysis (RCA), and postmortem reviews.
- Drive continuous improvement by identifying systemic issues and implementing preventive solutions.
- Ensure systems are secure, hardened, and compliant with enterprise security standards.
- Manage patching, vulnerability remediation, and OS upgrades.
- Partner with security teams to implement best practices for access control, auditing, and encryption.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to SRE and infrastructure teams.
- Collaborate with application, DevOps, and platform teams to improve system reliability and deployment processes.
- Define and enforce operational standards, runbooks, and best practices.
- Drive cross-functional initiatives to enhance platform stability and efficiency.
- Maintain comprehensive documentation for architecture, processes, and operational procedures.
- Ensure adherence to change management and incident governance frameworks.
- Standardize operational workflows across environments.
- Utilize strong Bash/Shell scripting skills for automation and troubleshooting.
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Roles and Responsibilities
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- Lead platform architecture and implementation efforts for Oracle Linux environments.
- Administer and optimize Oracle Linux systems with a focus on reliability and performance.
- Implement automation and configuration management using Azure DevOps and Ansible.
- Develop and maintain scripts using Bash/Shell to automate routine tasks and deployments.
- Manage high availability setups, clustering, and load balancing to ensure system uptime.
- Monitor system health and respond promptly to incidents, performing root cause analysis.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance system reliability and deployment pipelines.
- Ensure compliance with security standards and participate in vulnerability management.
- Mentor and guide junior engineers on best practices and operational procedures.
- Document system architecture, processes, and incident reports to maintain knowledge base.
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Skills
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Mandatory Skills : Azure DevOps, Bash/Shell scripting, Oracle Linux Administration, Platform Architecture & Implementation