Oracle APEX Operations Technical Leader

Overview

Lead the operational health, reliability, security, performance and lifecycle of a portfolio of enterprise Oracle APEX applications as the technical authority for the portfolio.

What you'll do

• Own the operational health, reliability, security, performance, and lifecycle of a portfolio of enterprise Oracle APEX applications.
• Lead AppOps, DevOps, and DevSecOps practices and coordinate internal teams and suppliers across development, support, infrastructure, database, cloud, and cybersecurity.
• Lead incident management and major-incident response, including prioritization, service restoration, stakeholder communication, escalation, and post-incident review.
• Own problem management, root-cause analysis, corrective and preventive actions, knowledge management, and initiatives that reduce recurring incidents.
• Govern change and release management through impact and risk assessment, implementation planning, testing evidence, approvals, deployment coordination, rollback readiness, and post-implementation validation.
• Define and monitor service levels and operational KPIs, including availability, performance, incident volume, resolution time, change success, backlog, vulnerability remediation, and operational risk.
• Drive CI/CD, source control, automated testing, deployment automation, environment management, and repeatable release practices for Oracle APEX solutions.
• Embed security throughout the application lifecycle through secure coding, access controls, vulnerability management, dependency governance, security testing, and remediation tracking.
• Act as the technical authority for Oracle APEX, Oracle Database, SQL, PL/SQL, Oracle REST Data Services, integrations, and related cloud technologies.
• Lead complex troubleshooting, performance tuning, capacity planning, technology upgrades, and obsolescence remediation with minimum business disruption.
• Partner with technical leaders, product owners, enterprise architects, business stakeholders, service-management teams, and governance functions to prioritize operational improvements and technical investments.
• Mentor engineers, set clear technical and operational expectations, and foster accountability, collaboration, continuous learning, and automation.
• Represent the application portfolio in change advisory boards, architecture reviews, service reviews, risk forums, audits, and cross-functional technology initiatives.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• At least five years of significant experience supporting and technically leading enterprise applications, including working with Oracle APEX and Oracle Database technologies.
• Proven ownership of production application operations in a complex enterprise environment, including incident, problem, change, release, and service-level management.
• Ability to lead major incidents, coordinate cross-functional technical teams, communicate clearly with stakeholders, and drive root-cause analysis and corrective actions.
• Advanced proficiency in Oracle APEX, SQL, and PL/SQL, including application architecture, database object design, troubleshooting, performance tuning, and scalable solution design.
• Strong knowledge of Oracle APEX security, including authentication, authorization, role-based access control, session protection, secure coding, data protection, and API security.
• Experience with source control, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, deployment automation, environment promotion, release governance, and rollback planning.
• Practical DevSecOps experience, including vulnerability assessment, secure development controls, patching, dependency management, security remediation, and risk-based prioritization.
• Experience establishing monitoring, logging, alerting, runbooks, service KPIs, operational dashboards, support models, and disaster-recovery procedures.
• Experience integrating Oracle APEX applications with enterprise systems through REST APIs, SOAP services, Oracle REST Data Services, Oracle Integration Cloud, Oracle API gateway or similar technologies.
• Working knowledge of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure or comparable cloud platforms and their application, database, identity, networking, monitoring, and security services.
• Experience defining technical standards, conducting architecture and code reviews, mentoring engineers, and improving engineering and operational practices across an application portfolio.
• Sound judgment in technology decisions through due diligence, risk assessment, business-impact evaluation, and lifecycle planning.
• Strong analytical, leadership, collaboration, supplier-management, and stakeholder-communication skills, with fluency in English.

Nice to have

• ITIL Foundation or equivalent service-management experience.

Details

• Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India (Neon Building West Tower).
• Flexible working hours, flexing the times when you work in the day.