Senior SaaS Cloud Capacity Engineer

Job Description

What You'll Do

• Capacity Engineering – As a Strategic Capacity Engineer, you will immerse yourself in the end-to-end configuration, technical architecture, and overall behavioral characteristics of the SaaS production services you collaborate with. In partnership with the SaaS Product teams, you will have the responsibility to ensure that mission critical services are optimized for OCI cloud capacity at scale as prioritized by the SaaS organization. You will meet regularly with the service(s), translating OCI Cloud technology designs to the product need for capacity and technology, and projecting forward to ensure that the service has a healthy reliability on capacity and is optimized year over year.
• Cost Engineering Support – A significant responsibility for this organization is to translate SaaS capacity architectures to business cost engineering initiatives, driving down infrastructure cost margins while improving reliability for our customers. This role will engage regularly with peer Cost Engineers on cost efficiency initiatives and forecasting efforts, tuning their understanding of the SaaS architectures into cost baselines and models for executive management.
• Capacity Run the Business Support – You will understand and be able to communicate the scale, capacity, performance attributes, and requirements of the services you work with to turn over detailed and deeply analyzed roadmaps to our Cloud Capacity Run the Business organization. These will define service capacity demand characteristics including tuning, optimization, scaling, as well as monthly/annual demand and technical roadmaps inflections over time.
• Automation – You will have a clear understanding of automation and orchestration principles, and will be eager to help automate, wherever and whenever the possibility arises, while simultaneously eliminating technical debt. Automation will be performed in partnership with peer data warehouse and AI/ML Ops teams where work will often involve translating technical architecture of complex and highly scalable products into development and proposing cloud feature enhancements.
• Technical Expertise - You will have a deep understanding of cloud capacity topologies, and their dependencies. You will bring this expertise to bear in driving cloud capacity reliability improvements in the services you engage with. Your background may encompass a prior strategic role as a DBA (Oracle DB preferred), middle-tier engineer, network engineer or any number of engineering in-depth roles that will help you in this position to grasp multiple complex architectures and translate these to hardware/cloud capacity supply.
• Broad Interests – SaaS Cloud Capacity Engineers are driven by professional curiosity, and a desire to develop deep horizontal understanding of their services and their dependencies. Exploring interfaces, cloud API’s, capacity “shape” performance characteristics, and load profiling to find anomalies and outline future expected requirements are “standard fare”.
• Cross-team collaboration – This role will engage with and present to a wide variety of audiences, ranging from individual contributors and teams to executive leadership. A comfort with this and an executive presence is required, as this is a senior role and a trusted advisor to numerous SaaS organizations.
  
  
  

Your Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field, Masters or above preferred
• 10 years hands on senior experience with one or more of the following: Oracle DB, mid-tier / hypervisor management, containerization and orchestration, network (service gateways, wide area network transmission, Layer 2/3 networking), monitoring (Octo, Grafana)
• Strong knowledge of Oracle OCI cloud services
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to interpret complex data and present it in a clear and actionable manner.
• Ability to communicate complex engineering information to non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong attention to detail and problem-solving abilities.
• Significant experience with MS Excel, used for one off modeling and translation
• Strong meeting rigor: relationships are critical to this role and meeting with stakeholders to build relationships, glean and review data models, and gain insights is a regular requirement.
• Strong relationship building experience
• Experience working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with cross-functional teams..
  
  
  

Responsibilities

This role supports all SaaS Production and Development Cloud capacity engineering, forecasting and optimization for a shared collection of SaaS products and services globally. The position's core responsibility is to translate capacity architectures and business-critical strategies and drive optimized OCI cloud capacity profiles globally. You will do this by working with peer Cloud Cost Engineering roles, a Run the Business Capacity operations team, as well as all SaaS commercial product pillars to understand their architecture, base end-to-end capacity configuration and design needs, technical dependencies, and overall behavioral characteristics to better predict the business needs. You will then translate these into actionable monthly/quarterly objectives as well as size financial implications, working with peer organizations in Cost Engineering, Run the Business and multiple operational verticals to ensure seamless planning and integration during execution.

Qualifications

Disclaimer:

Certain US customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization and occupational health mandates.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $104,200 - $251,600 per year. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

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:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
• Short term disability and long term disability
• Life insurance and AD&D
• Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
• Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
• 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
• 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.
• 11 paid holidays
• 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.
• Paid parental leave
• Adoption assistance
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Financial planning and group legal
• Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance
  
  
  

The 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 - IC5

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