Principal Applications Engineer

The Oracle Health / Life Sciences product suite leads the market for pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device research applications in the rapidly expanding life sciences industry. The product we build will be central to the success of Oracle Health to support our customers assess market viability of new treatments, bring these treatments to market, and ensure the overall long-term wellness and safety of patients world-wide. Our products are used by some of the biggest companies in the world, impacting millions of patients in our goal to achieve better health outcomes for everyone.

Our team is a group of highly motivated and dedicated people from some of the best universities and the clinical trials industry. We value intangibles like initiative, creativity and innovation. Performance engineers work with cutting edge technologies and interact seamlessly with our internal product engineering, industry-expert product management, quality assurance, documentation, and customer support teams.

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Oracle is looking for Principal Applications Engineer to be part of Oracle Health/Life Sciences product development group in Bangalore with strong knowledge on performance engineering, Oracle Database Architecture, Kubernetes, SQL and PLSQL Tuning Skills and Data Modelling. In this role you will be instrumental in ensuring our application perform at their peak, delivering a seamless and enjoyable experience for the end users. Deep dive into the tech stacks, identify bottleneck and implement creative solutions to optimize performance across the board. You will be responsible for ensuring that you and your team's deliverables with high quality and driving positive change in the team. Your work will be used by some of the biggest companies in the world, impacting millions of patients in our goal to achieve better health outcomes for everyone. You will also be a leader on your team, coaching and growing your junior peers in best practices and operational excellence.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop and execute comprehensive performance tests across the entire application stack from front-end to back-end database, utilize industry standard tools like LoadRunner, JMeter and Selenium to simulate real-world scenarios and identify performance limitations.
• Analyze performance data using tools like Prometheus, New Relic, DynaTrace to pinpoint bottlenecks and uncover the root cause of performance issues.
• Collaborate closely with developments teams to optimize the code, architectural changes, database and infrastructure for maximum efficiency and explore cutting-edge performance optimization techniques.
• Establish a robust performance monitoring framework to proactively identify and resolve issues before impact to ours users, Analyze real-time data, identify trends and anticipate potential problems.
• Develop scripts and implement tools to automate performance testing, monitoring and reporting process. Integrate performance testing into CI/CD pipeline to ensure continuous performance validation.
• Share your expertise and best practices with the team. Collaborates with developers, operations and product managers to ensure performance is a top priority throughout the software development life cycle.
• Effectively communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Lead the team in delivering performance engineering activities.
• Excellent ability to translate business requirements and NFR's into performance test strategy, test scenarios and load profile
• Analyze large amounts of performance data and summarize them into meaningful graphs and reports
• Continuously monitor products to understand their usage, potential issues, new trends and adjust the tests based on the monitoring feedback.

Qualifications andExperience:

• BS/MS in Engineering/Computer Science or equivalent. Graduate degree (M.Tech./M.S./B.Tech./M.Sc./M.C.A.) with aggregate of 60% or above
• Total of over 8+ years of experience and strong performance engineering background
• Hands-on experience in at least one programming language (Java, C, Python etc.)
• Hands-on experience with LoadRunner, Jmeter, Prometheus, DynaTrace, Jenkin , Jprofiler, Grafana/kibana or any log explorer/observability tools
• Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Micro services architecture on cloud with modern cloud technologies.
• Understand what business parameters could influence performance (data sizes, complexity, concurrent users, and instrumentation of users) and come up with user scenarios, data modeling, features and their combinations to be tested.
• Responsible to perform different type of tests such as Availability, Reliability, Smoke, Longevity, Stress testing etc and capacity planning based on the performance of the application.
• Hands-on experience on identifying the right Framework and implementing the same for scripting, monitoring and analysis.
• Hands-on experience in working with browser profiling tools (eg., Fiddler, Firebug, Pagespeed, Developer Tool)
• Hands-on experience in Web Services, XML technologies (REST, SOAP, WSDL, XML)
• In-depth understanding of RDBMS concepts, expertise in writing advanced SQL queries, query tuning for better performance
• Hand-on experience to analyze the AWR/ASH reports, Thread dump, Heap dump, logs and traces
• Experience working in DevOps / Agile SDLC model
• Excellent time management, communication skills and a great team player
• Experience in UNIX shell scripting or Sound knowledge in UNIX/operating systems

Career Level - IC4