Principal Site Reliability Developer (IC4)

We are looking for a Principal Site Reliability Engineer to join our OCI team. This role is part of a globally distributed team responsible for detecting, triaging, and mitigating OCI service-impacting events as quickly as possible. You will be part of one of these regional teams and will be responsible for minimising the downtime of OCI services. You will achieve this by delivering excellent major incident management and operating systems with high scalability, performance, and security that help prevent incidents from occurring.

Oracle’s Cloud is state-of-the-art and constantly evolving. When issues arise, your team will respond within minutes to ensure customer impact is minimised. This role will expose you to the inner workings of OCI’s systems and organization. You will interact with and influence leaders across Oracle and drive broad, cross-organization programs aimed at iteratively improving OCI-wide service availability. We are an agile team with significant impact. If you want to be part of a fast-moving team breaking new ground, we would love to speak with you!

Career Level - IC4

Responsible for the design and delivery of the mission critical stack, with focus on security, resiliency, scale, and performance. Authority for end-to-end performance and operability. Partner with development teams in defining and implementing improvements in service architecture. Articulate technical characteristics of services and technology areas and guide Development Teams to engineer and add premier capabilities to the Oracle Cloud service portfolio. Understand and communicate the scale, capacity, security, performance attributes, and requirements of the service and technology stack. Demonstrate clear understanding of automation and orchestration principles. Act as ultimate escalation point for complex or critical issues that have not yet been documented as Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs). Utilize a deep understanding of service topology and their dependencies required to troubleshoot issues and define mitigations. Understand and explain the affect of product architecture decisions on distributed systems. Professional curiosity and a desire to a develop deep understanding of services and technologies.

• Minimum 7 years of hands-on Platform Engineering, DevOps or SRE experience
• Technical role with a history of embracing automated processes, cloud native application design principles and a CI/CD DevOps model.
• Experience with production operations and best practices for deploying quality code in production and troubleshooting issues when they arise.
• Experience with public cloud (OCI, AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaaC), Configuration as Code (CaC), GitOps and tools such as Terraform, Argo CD, Flux, etc.
• Experience and working knowledge in languages like Python or Java.
• Experience deploying, configuring, managing and debugging cloud infrastructure and platform software such as OpenStack, Kubernetes, etc.
• Experience with public cloud managed Kubernetes  (such as OCI/OKE, AWS/EKS, GCP/GKE, Azure/AKS).
• Experience with cloud-native administration and monitoring/alerting technologies such as Docker, Helm, Prometheus, Grafana, EFK/ELK, Jaeger, or similar technologies.
• Experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines, platforms and components such as Jenkins, Argo CD.
• Knowledge of version control using Git.
• Experience with application frameworks such as Spring, Helidon, Micronaut, etc. is a plus.
• Experience developing or designing healthcare software is a plus.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum development process is a plus.
• Experience in Linux/Unix environment
• Strong trouble shooting capabilities targeting complicated problems in remote systems
• Excellent team skills, can-do attitude, focus on quality.
• BS or MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent
• Must be eligible to obtain & maintain a US government security clearance appropriate for this role, which requires you to be a US Citizen.

Disclaimer:

Certain US customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization and occupational health mandates.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $97,500 to $199,500 per annum. May be eligible for bonus and equity.

Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle’s differing products, industries and lines of business.
Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits pack