Ok so seems like there is a ton of complaining on this forum about all things wrong with Oracle. No judgement, I'm in that mindset most days too. Today I thought it might be nice to shift gears and think about how to get out of Oracle. What skills would be the best to go self teach to make the dream of offboarding a reality? I suppose it would depend a lot on existing experience/skillet. Let's just assume that this would be from the perspective of a typical person who's been in Support for 5 years...meaning they basically don't have any real viable skills currently beyond what little they've taught themselves on whatever d-mb Oracle product they've been supporting.
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Go to Udemy. They have on line classes for nearly anything, many for as low as $20.
Modern support techs need to have a solid systems understanding along with basic networking (obvious).
Anything SQL, esp. cloud db platforms
Anything about the specific cloud platform or service in use with the product, (azure, AWS, Redis, messaging, whatever)
Web services, http, browsers
Splunk and logging; DevTools, Fiddler
SSO, 2FA and related security/access methods
Most decent tech companies will have training for their products tailored to your job. Take it all and ask for more!
Get AWS certified. Then take CISSP classes. ensure you're familiar with tools like putty, vm ware, docker, etc.