Description
On the back of strong public cloud product revenues, Oracle is expanding its UK presence by significantly growing its public cloud product development team in the center of Bristol.Oracle is seeking to hire an experienced Senior Principal Software Engineer (Oracle, IT, Python) to develop next-generation cloud platforms, infrastructure and services. Recruiting the best engineers is central to our strategy and we are committed to attracting the very best talent with highly competitive salaries and superb working conditions.
We are seeking Senior Principal Software Engineers (Oracle, IT, Python) with experience of developing cloud technology and services. Experience of Amazon Web Services, Rackspace, HP Helion, Google App Engine, OpenStack or similar environments is desirable.
Successful candidates will have:
Excellent programming skills using modern languages, including one or more of: Java, Scala, Python, Clojure.
Recent experience with modern build and continuous integration tools, including one or more of: Gradle, Maven, Artifactory/Nexus, Ant, Hudson/Jenkins, GIT.
Experience working with *nix operating systems and environments.
Knowledge of virtualization, hypervisors and containerization technologies (such as VMWare, Oracle VM, KVM, Xen, Docker, LXC) is desirable.
Senior Principal Software Engineer (Oracle, IT, Python) is a senior, technical leadership role in an individual contributor capacity. Successful candidates will have proven experience and expertise including:
Outstanding and current programming and design ability.
Ability to lead projects in the context of complex, distributed, multi-tier architectures.
Experience identifying and managing technical risk and ensuring reliable, incremental delivery of software.
Ability to defining clear solutions and strategies to address cross cutting concerns (security, lifecycle, scalability and high availability)
Great communication skills and the ability to build technical consensus and lead difficult, high risk, cross-team initiatives.
Ability to provide hands-on technical leadership across the full software development lifecycle.
Successful candidates will typically have a BSc/Msc or higher degree and at least 8 years post-graduate experience as a software engineer/developer. Candidates should also be able to demonstrate a strong personal drive to continuously learn and research new technologies and methodologies in order to innovate and improve products, services and development processes.
Oracle has the largest portfolio of cloud products and services on the market today. Oracle's Cloud Development team develops the core infrastructure and services that comprise and enable Oracle's iAAS, PAAS and SAAS products and services. Successful candidates will work on the development and delivery of a wide range of cutting edge products and services including areas such as continuous delivery and deployment, lifecycle management, cloud security, compute, storage and data management.
As a member of the cloud product development division you will participate in a highly agile development environment and process, dealing with complex and challenging projects, working with outstanding product development teams (in Bristol and worldwide). This is a great opportunity to learn new skills and to work within a really talented, global engineering community.
Detailed Description and Job Requirements
Design, develop, troubleshoot and debug software programs for databases, applications, tools, networks etc.
As a member of the software engineering division, you will take an active role in the definition and evolution of standard practices and procedures. Define specifications for significant new projects and specify, design and develop software according to those specifications. You will perform professional software development tasks associated with the developing, designing and debugging of software applications or operating systems.
Provide leadership and expertise in the development of new products/services/processes, frequently operating at the leading edge of technology. Recommends and justifies major changes to existing products/services/processes. BS or MS degree or equivalent experience relevant to functional area. 8 more years of software engineering or related experience.
Job: Product Development
Location: GB-GB, UK-Bristol
Job Type: Regular Employee Hire
Organization: Oracle