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This engineer will design, coordinate, and execute technical solutions that have huge impact to our customer experience and scalability. Understanding various cloud technologies and technical trade-offs, the ideal candidate will be an exceptionally strong communicator, both written and verbally, have a well-rounded technical background, and come with a history of leading large-scale projects end-to-end.\nQualifications\nYour experience should be both deep and wide-ranging, with strengths in internetworking, cloud infrastructure, Linux system internals, workflow scalability, and organizational effectiveness.\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent work experience.\n8+ years distributed cloud engineering experience in a software development environment\nDevelopment experience in Java/C++/C# as well as scripting languages. 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You will partner with other development teams responsible for architecting, designing, and implementing solutions within a distributed computing environment that lead to the best customer experience. This is a high-impact role with high expectations. You will be expected to lead initiatives across engineering, operations, and leadership with minimal supervision.\nPartner with customer engineering leadership and OCI engineering leadership to ensure the success of your customers.\nTake ownership of problems and work to identify solutions.\nAbility to think through the solution and identify/document potential issues impacting your customers.\nWork with engineering teams to design infrastructure components such as cloud resources, distributed computing systems, and data storage solutions to support your customer's workflows.\nTroubleshoot infrastructure performance, scalability, and reliability issues and implement solutions to mitigate risks and minimize downtime.\nDocument infrastructure designs, configurations, and procedures to facilitate knowledge sharing and ensure maintainability.\n Disclaimer:Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.\nRange and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only\nUS: Hiring Range in USD from: $114,600 to $234,600 per annum. 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