Cloud Operations Senior Systems Engineer (.NET & Linux) Job in Ireland

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With more than 390,000 customers—including 100 of the Fortune 100—and with deployments across a wide variety of industries in more than 145 countries around the globe, Oracle offers an optimized and fully integrated stack of business hardware and software systems.

Oracle engineers hardware and software to work together in the cloud and in your data center–from servers and storage, to database and middleware, through applications. Oracle systems:

• Provide better performance, reliability, security, and flexibility

• Lower the cost and complexity of IT implementation and management

• Deliver greater productivity, agility, and better business intelligence
For customers needing modular solutions, Oracle's open architecture and multiple operating-system options also give customers unmatched benefits from best-of-breed products in every layer of the stack, allowing them to build the best infrastructure for their enterprise.

Cloud Operations Senior Systems Engineer (.NET & Linux) Job Description

Seeking a Cloud Operations Systems Engineer for Oracle Taleo Learn production operations.  High scale Learning Management System (LMS) focused on enterprise and small to medium business.  We are looking for a strong technical individual to join us in the design and implementation of world-class processes and automation and help us build a highly scalable solution.

Responsibilities:

• Drive SaaS operations including performance management, implementation of SLAs
• Work with Windows, SQL Server, IIS and a custom datacenter operations
• Provide technical solutions to automate processes or functions to improve business operations
• Develop corresponding operations and support procedures for application operations
• Participate in the design and realization of tools for a Dev Ops inspired backend management and monitoring system
• Work closely with Performance and Customer Services teams on customer-impacting incidents
• Work with product development team on establishing/reproducing root cause behavior
• Work with customer support teams on root cause Analysis Incident Response documentation
• Review of incident data and make recommendations for preventative measures
• Work with Development teams to identify trends in application defects
• Accumulate and publish incident and problem metrics on a periodic basis
• Make presentations within Technical Operations and to cross-functional teams
• Continually monitor and tune application infrastructure to assure optimal performance, availability and utilization of resources
• Respond to monitoring alerts to quickly identify trouble source and implement resolution to avoid or reduce duration of an outage
• Provide support and troubleshooting to resolve issues impacting application operations
• Engineer and deploy releases, enhancements, and upgrades or new applications throughout non-production and production environments
• Maintain thorough knowledge of application design and engineering principles and applications within team's portfolio

Cloud Operations Senior Systems Engineer (.NET & Linux) Job Requirements

• 5+ years of strong experience as web/application administration engineer with expertise in supporting Microsoft
• 3+ years experience with MS SQL (2005 and 2008)
• 2+ years experience with deploying web applications to a Windows environment
• 2+ years experience with Windows based scripting (you will be asked to write scripts on a whiteboard)
• A strong team player, self-motivated, self-starter and with a great get it done work attitude
• Effective written and oral communication skills (must be able to articulate technical designs, strategies, and problems to management)
• Strong technical background in industry-standard infrastructure and application stacks
• As a 24X7X365 organization, shift work, holidays, weekends and on-call responsibilities may be required
• Experience with SaaS Operations, Cloud Operations
• Ability to work in a high-pressure, fast-paced, high growth environment
• Good working experience with database platforms including MS SQL, My SQL, Oracle
• Knowledge of the interworking of ASP.Net and IIS
• Experience working with Windows based performance monitoring tools
• Ability to plan and execute projects with minimal oversight
• Knowledge of load balancing and high availability planning
• Strong experience in IT-related systems implementation, operations, and support
• Keen understanding of various disciplines and technologies such as Web, directory services, directory synchronization, web application security, databases, networking, infrastructure, and application development is the key to this position
• Expertise in supporting web applications based on Microsoft platform
  Strong experience and Web Server Knowledge IIS7, IIS6, Apache, Java
• Experience and ability to reverse engineer systems for troubleshooting.
• Thorough understanding of monitoring systems, monitoring methodologies and on-call processes/procedures
• Strong understanding of application architecture design and implementation
• Experience in using different testing tools, scripting, configuration management such as Chef / Puppet and automation skills
• Background in software engineering, service and support a plus
• Experience with Linux (Oracle Linux, CentOS, RHEL) a plus

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