Hands-on Technical Manager-Oracle Database/SRE/Exadata

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Job Description - -------------- **About the Role** Join **Autonomous Recovery Service (RCV)**---a mission-critical cloud service that protects customer data and ensures reliable backup and recovery at cloud scale. This is a **hands-on technical leadership role**, not a traditional people-management position. You will lead a high-performing engineering team while remaining deeply involved in production operations, technical escalations, incident response, service reliability, architecture reviews, automation, and continuous improvement. You'll work with cutting-edge technologies including **Oracle Database, RMAN, Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance (ZDLRA), Exadata, OCI, Linux, Python, Terraform, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)** to build and operate highly available cloud services. **What You'll Do** • Lead the engineering team responsible for Oracle Autonomous Recovery Service (RCV). • Stay hands-on by participating in production support, incident response, technical escalations, troubleshooting, and architecture reviews. • Drive service reliability, scalability, security, observability, and operational excellence. • Own the end-to-end lifecycle of production services, including provisioning, deployments, upgrades, patching, backup, recovery, and maintenance. • Lead root cause analysis (RCA), postmortems, and long-term corrective actions. • Improve monitoring, alerting, automation, self-service tooling, and operational efficiency. • Guide capacity planning, performance tuning, and infrastructure scalability. • Partner closely with Software Engineering, Database Engineering, Infrastructure, Security, and Product teams. • Mentor engineers, conduct technical reviews, develop talent, and foster a strong engineering culture. • Drive adoption of automation, Infrastructure as Code, and AI-assisted engineering practices to reduce operational toil. **Required Technical Skills** • Oracle Database Administration • Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN) • Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance (ZDLRA) • Oracle Exadata • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) • Linux Administration • Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) • Backup, Restore \& Disaster Recovery • Production Operations • Incident Management • Root Cause Analysis • Capacity Planning • Monitoring \& Observability • Python • Bash / Shell Scripting • SQL • Terraform (Infrastructure as Code) • CI/CD • Distributed Systems • Automation \& Orchestration **Preferred Qualifications** • Experience leading technical teams while remaining hands-on. • Strong production support and cloud operations experience. • Expertise operating mission-critical distributed systems. • Experience improving reliability, scalability, and operational excellence. • Passion for mentoring engineers and building high-performing teams. **Why Join Oracle** You'll help build and operate one of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's most critical services, protecting customer data at global scale while working alongside world-class engineers on cutting-edge cloud technologies.