Senior Principal Software Engineer - Oracle Cloud Development

Recruiter
Oracle
Location
Bristol
Salary
excellent salary - negotiable
Posted
29 May 2015
Closes
29 May 2015
Sectors
Engineering
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
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 experienced software engineers 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 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 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.