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Architects advanced security controls, drives remediation and compliance, and delivers enterprise-level automation (IaC) and change strategies enabling safe, automated patching, updates, and rollbacks.\n System Design & Architecture - System Scalability:\nMentor the team in the architecture and design of highly scalable, interdependent distributed systems such as DNS and L7 Proxy, ensuring horizontal and vertical scalability and overall performance, including leveraging distributed state management tools. \nLead the identification of performance and scalability bottlenecks and recommend solutions to optimize code and/or systems for large-scale data processing and high-throughput requirements to improve performance for hyper-scale systems. \nLead collaboration with stakeholders to define system scalability requirements, ensuring the defined requirements meet customer expectations. \nLeverage deep expertise to design high-impact, interdependent systems to scale with elasticity (e.g., effectively scaling both up and down). \nDrive innovation in the use of data plane platforms. \nEvaluate whether systems are meeting nonfunctional scalability requirements, and proactively anticipate growing business needs within the business unit.\nSystem Reliability Performance:\nDefine key performance indicators (KPIs) and telemetry to identify risks, gaps, or cyclical dependencies in running, interdependent systems. \nDrive the creation and customization of highly complex dashboards, telemetry systems, and alerting mechanisms, proactively ensuring system health and reliability.\nSystem Reliability Design:\nDesign and oversee the implementation of fault-tolerant, interdependent systems capable of withstanding in-service updates by implementing sophisticated redundancy, replication, and automatic failover capabilities. \nLead the design and implementation of systems that effectively handle service disruptions (e.g., network partitions) by prioritizing consistency, availability, or partition tolerance. \nGuide the optimization of advanced mechanisms to handle network unreliability, including load-shedding, throttling, and rate-limiting. \nDesign interdependent systems that are durable and adhere to service level objectives (SLOs), driving standards for availability and durability of other computing services within the organization\nCorrectness / Availability:\nMaintain expertise in industry standards for verifying correctness and apply existing techniques to interdependent systems. Formally verify complex features (e.g., via TLA+) to ensure system design correctness for various interdependent systems. \nDevelop advanced strategies for data replication and synchronization, ensuring robust data integrity and availability\nOperational Troubleshooting & Incident Management:\nAdvise on efforts to diagnose, debug, and resolve complex issues in active, interdependent systems to support ongoing operation. \nDevelop and implement comprehensive strategies to prevent interruptions, ensuring no maintenance windows are required for customers and users when resolving issues. \nMaintain expertise in dependencies, dependents, and owned systems to drive effective troubleshooting and performance. \nSet standards for operational readiness and standard operating procedures within the department, and hold third-party partners accountable for meeting those standards. \nOversee operational support rotations, providing expert guidance in incident response and leading root cause investigations to prevent future occurrences.\nCompliance & Security:\nArchitect advanced security measures to protect data and applications in multi-tenant environments, and lead initiatives to enhance data and application protection. \nGuide the execution of comprehensive remediation plans to address identified security vulnerabilities. \nEnsure cloud infrastructure is in compliance with industry standards and regulations, and guide documentation efforts across projects.\nAutomation & Change Management:\nDevelop enterprise-level automation tools and strategies (e.g., Infrastructure as Code (IaC)) and oversee their implementation. \nDrive alignment of change management plans and organizational initiatives for patching, updating, and rolling back applications, and design interdependent systems to allow for automation of these processes.\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: $146,300 to $306,400 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.\nOracle 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.\nCandidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.\nOracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:\n1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion\n2. Short term disability and long term disability\n3. Life insurance and AD&D\n4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)\n5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts\n6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits\n7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match\n8. Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. 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