Description Location: UK (Remote / Flexible working) Are you an expert, methodical developer who takes tremendous satisfaction only when the user experience is consistent, intuitive, and efficient for both newcomers and experts who manage production systems at scale? Do you believe in the DevOps model, and are you a source of calm while operating and troubleshooting production systems? Would you like to join our growing MySQL Database Service team as we expand delivery of MySQL offerings on Oracle's Cloud Infrastructure? MySQL is the world's most popular open source database. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is the industry's broadest and most integrated public cloud and helps organizations increase business agility, lower costs, and reduce IT complexity. MySQL Database Service (MDS) is built, operated and supported by the Oracle staff responsible for the MySQL products. MDS offers secure, stable, and performant MySQL services for those requiring an enterprise-class experience. The MySQL Database Service team is responsible for developing, deploying and operating the cloud service framework powering Oracle’s MySQL Database Service and HeatWave, MySQL’s in-memory, query accelerator. We are a worldwide team of problem-solvers who are driven to deliver MySQL at cloud scale to meet the real-world needs of our customers. As a DevOps Engineer on our team, you will partner with Control Plane, Data Plane, Console and SRE colleagues to provide a secure, integrated, seamless, User Experience to customers managing their MySQL Database Systems. We’re looking for a Site Reliability Engineer with experience in cloud services on a modern IaaS environment. In this role you will champion, develop and operate scripts, configurations and code to manage our MySQL service infrastructure and deployment pipeline. In order to scale, emphasis is on automation, validation, performance and reliability. You will work with multiple OCI and MySQL teams to deliver new functionality to our development and production systems. We are a worldwide team of problem solvers who are driven to deliver MySQL at cloud scale to meet the real-world needs of our customers. We are looking to add a foundational hire in the UK to grow our DevOps team and to anchor our UK government service offering. While you will be a primary point of contact for our services to the UK government, you will also be a key part of the worldwide team responsible for the infrastructure and processes that deliver the MySQL Database Service to all OCI Realms and Regions. Qualified candidates must have a British passport to meet Security Clearance requirements. Responsibilities Build observability, automation and tooling for a set of modern, cloud native, fault tolerant and scalable cloud database management services Contribute to operational activities such as writing runbooks, troubleshooting, operations automation, and instrumentation for metrics and events Develop infrastructure tooling and code to automate deployment and continuous verification of healthy service levels Solve reliability issues across the entire service architecture and its deployments Mentor junior team members Work productively in a fast-paced, team-oriented agile development environment Contribute to a healthy, supportive and inclusive team culture Work with geographically distributed teams and contribute to the success of your team and other related teams Qualifications BE/BS/MS degree in Computer science or Computer Engineering or 4 years related experience 3 years experience including DevOps, Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), on-call rotations, working on highly scalable, distributed systems Highly proficient in at least one programming and/or scripting language (Python, Ruby, Java etc.), shell scripting, ssh, git, etc. Proficient in Linux/Unix systems administration Skilled at debugging and troubleshooting complex software and/or networking issues, performing root cause analysis Proficient in cloud development tools/infrastructure, and experienced in infrastructure automation through Terraform, Chef, Ansible, Puppet or similar Hands-on experience on at least one of the following cloud platforms: AWS, Azure, Google or OCI Procedurally oriented and willing a contributor to documentation and runbooks Proven ability to quickly learn new technical domains and then train others A productive, proactive team-player and good communicator who thrives when collaborating with others Preferred Qualifications MySQL DBA experience a huge plus Experienced deploying code within change management procedures Responsibilities Responsibilities Build observability, automation and tooling for a set of modern, cloud native, fault tolerant and scalable cloud database management services Contribute to operational activities such as writing runbooks, troubleshooting, operations automation, and instrumentation for metrics and events Develop infrastructure tooling and code to automate deployment and continuous verification of healthy service levels Solve reliability issues across the entire service architecture and its deployments Mentor junior team members Work productively in a fast-paced, team-oriented agile development environment Contribute to a healthy, supportive and inclusive team culture Work with geographically distributed teams and contribute to the success of your team and other related teams