Principal Systems Administrator

Oracle Federal Operations Production Service System Administrator Building off our Cloud momentum, Oracle has formed a new organization - Oracle Health & Analytics. This team will focus on product development, operations and product strategy for Oracle Health, while building out a complete platform supporting modernized, automated healthcare. This is a net new line of business, constructed with an entrepreneurial spirit that promotes an energetic and creative environment. We are unencumbered and will need your contribution to make it a world class engineering center with the focus on excellence. Oracle's Federal Operations Production Service System Administrators provide system implementation, support, monitoring, and maintenance of Oracle's solutions and services in the Federal environments. You will work closely with Oracle's Federal internal business and development teams to drive the technical/functional global implementation of Oracle's applications. You will be responsible for alert and event response operations, service account management, certificate management, change control and implementation operations, vulnerability management, service requests, OS patching, and packaged software installation. You will support critical priorities such as patient safety, cyber security, as well as contributing to availability, reliability, and system performance. We are looking for someone who flourishes working in large-scale, distributed systems and is always looking to identify and implement standard processes and improvements. Work with Oracle's world class technology to develop, implement, and support Oracle's global infrastructure Responsibilities Perform daily system operations tasks to verify system integrity and availability. Perform ongoing performance tuning, hardware/OS upgrades, and resource optimization. Implement monitoring for applications and servers, and respond to alarms in a timely manner, preventing client impact and performance degradation. Deploy physical and virtual servers. Complete assigned incident management tasks. Deploy, set up, and maintain testing environments. Provide Tier III and other support per service request, complete cyber validation and checklists to maintain cyber posture. Map standard application functionality to global/local business specifications. Complete product rollout and coordination with internal teams. Supplement user acceptance testing and transfer of information. Provide technical support for implemented applications; diagnosing and reporting bugs, applying patches and upgrades as needed. Interact with project managers and other technical teams. Requirements Seeking 8+ years of experience working with Windows, Unix/Linux Servers and system administration Must have background in Cyber Security, Networking and Server Configurations Willing to work additional or irregular hours as needed and allowed by local laws to include on-call responsibilities Ability to understand, debug scripts such as Unix shell scripts, Windows PowerShell, Perl and Python from a system administration support perspective Experience in performing root cause analysis for incidents and problems in a production environment. Should be able to analyze system logs, performance metrics, and service behavior to identify underlying issues and recommend long-term solutions Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Information Systems, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Software Engineering preferred Must have the ability to obtain and maintain a federal security clearance necessary for this role which requires being a US citizen (prefer those holding a current clearance) US: Hiring Range in USD from: $87,000 to $178,100 per annum. May be eligible for bonus and equity. 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.