Senior Director, ERP Development Operations

Are you ready to take on the next biggest challenge in your career? Do you thrive in an entrepreneurial environment that delivers some of the most complex services involving cloud technologies and distributed systems? Do you enjoy creating a broad vision and also are you also a laser-focused, results-oriented go-getter who relentlessly pursues some of the toughest enterprise challenges? If the answer is yes, then we want to talk to you.

Oracle, the world leader in Enterprise Cloud, is hiring the best and brightest technologists in the industry as we continue to add customer-centric, world-class, leading edge, secure, hyper-scale based solutions throughout all levels of the cloud stack. Oracles cloud eco-system is the only complete business cloud platform on the planet, with market leading and business transforming solutions spanning SaaS, DaaS, PaaS and IaaS. Oracles Cloud applications, such as Enterprise Resource Management, Customer Relationship Management, Human Capital Management, and Supply Chain Management are used by thousands of customers across the globe and are the broadest, most innovative in the industry, providing businesses with adaptive intelligence, standardized business processes and competitive advantage at low cost.

As part of market leading ERP Cloud, the Oracle Development Operations team drives operational excellence to deliver trusted value to our customers.

The ERP Development Operations team is looking for an expert in release engineering and development operations who is passionate, innovative, and has strong leadership skills to lead a development operations team. Seeking a senior director ready for a new challenge in a fast-paced environment who have a proven track record for seeking out and implementing imaginative and strategic, yet practical, solutions with a customer first mindset.

The Release Engineering team strives to increase the velocity of innovation to our cloud services and ensure overall developer productivity. To be successful in this role:

• You have experience in development, testing and systems automation.
• You have experience in Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery principles in the domain of cloud-based web applications.
• You are a firm believer in pipeline-as-code.
• You are passionate about end to end automation of all aspects of the delivery pipeline.

Key Tasks and Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and help drive cross-team software engineering efforts to build systems and services that improve operational efficiency, increase velocity of product delivery, and drive reliability, scale and performance.
• Shape the processes, platform, and tools used to drive software and configuration changes from the developer desktop to production.
• Participate in the creation and improvement of processes, patterns and practices for incident response, postmortem/root cause analysis, end-to-end repair item definition, fixes in production. This includes both customer and internal communication throughout the entire process.
• Identify and implement improvements to the software delivery pipeline with a focus on Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery and 100% automation of the build, validation and delivery of our cloud services.
• Perform profiling and troubleshooting of current solutions, identify the root cause of problems, and corrective and preventative actions required.

Qualifications and Experience

• BS/MS (MS preferred) in Computer Science or related field and minimum of 10 years of software development experience, with demonstrated knowledge of professional software engineering best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control, configuration management practices, build and release processes, continuous deployment, and test suite development and maintenance.
  • Detailed understanding of source code management concepts and direct experience with a modern source code control system (e.g. git).
  • Strong understanding of "modern" DevOps solutions on the cloud including Continuous Integration and Delivery pipelines and CI/CD best practices.
  • Experience with CI release engineering tools e.g. Jenkins/Hudson, Maven/Gradle, and monitoring e.g. Prometheus, and Grafana.
  • Troubleshooting skills across network, application, caching, queuing, load-balancing, storage and distributed services layers.
  • Experience designing and implementing solutions for platform and application layer telemetry, monitoring, scalability, performance and reliability.
• 7 years of previous people management experience
• Leadership, autonomy and business acumen in fast-paced environments proven ability to :
  • Make sound decisions.
  • Deliver on commitments.
  • Handle multiple competing priorities.
  • Motivate and lead cross-functional teams.
  • Drive transformational changes in a highly technical, dynamic environment.
  • Ability to take high level direction and execute projects to deliver value. Self-driven and comfortable driving forward even when some aspects of a project are not fully known.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate technical content to both technical and non-technical peers, customers, and at times, executive leadership.
• 2 years practical experience deploying and running large scale online systems built on Cloud platforms such as Oracle Cloud, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and/or OpenStack
• Proficient in CI release engineering tools (e.g., Jenkins, Maven/Gradle) and monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana).
• Experience with large-scale, Linux-based enterprise software including database and middle tier layers.
• Minimum of 7 years of experience with Java, C#/C and SQL dialects, as well as JavaScript/TypeScript, and React; T-SQLand PowerShell experience is a plus.
• Strong scripting skills e.g. Groovy, Go, Python, Linux shell scripting, etc.

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: from $142,900 to $338,600 per annum. 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 Oracles 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:
1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
2. Short term disability and long term disability
3. Life insurance and AD&D
4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
8. 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.
9. 11 paid holidays
10. 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.
11. Paid parental leave
12. Adoption assistance
13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan
14. Financial planning and group legal
15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

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