What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Site Reliability Engineer position at Oracle Corporation?
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Nashville, TN, United States
United States
Job Identification
311028
Job Category
Product Development
Posting Date
11/06/2025, 12:00 AM
Role
Individual Contributor
Job Type
Regular Employee
Does this position require a security clearance?
No
Years
3 to 5+ years
Applicants are required to read, write, and speak the following languages
English
Job Description
Role Summary
As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), you will play a key role in ensuring the reliability, performance, and scalability of modern cloud-based AI applications for OCI Operations. This position involves close collaboration with development, operations, and security teams to automate processes, develop SRE standards, monitor system health, and maintain optimal uptime for critical AI applications. You will leverage your technical expertise to design, automate, and maintain AI services supporting mission-critical AI and ML initiatives.
Responsibilities
What You'll Do
Design, implement, and maintain scalable, secure cloud infrastructure for AI Applications on OCI
Collaborate with Engineering teams to build robust automation to build, deploy, and scale resilient systems
Implement site reliability engineering best practices tailored for Applications: SLO/SLI definition, error budgeting, automated monitoring, data integrity validation, and incident response for services
Identify opportunities and take ownership of automation and/or continuous improvement opportunities to run highly scalable reliable systems
Design and optimize highly available services that are resilient to failures or impacts
Automate infrastructure provisioning and CI/CD deployments with tools like Terraform, Ansible, or other IAC frameworks
Instrument and monitor components for performance, availability, resource consumption, and latency using observability tools (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus)
Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues, conducting root cause analyses and post-incident reviews
Solve complex problems related to infrastructure cloud services and automate common tasks to ensure continuous availability with minimal human intervention.
Utilize a deep understanding of cloud computing design patterns and their dependencies to mitigate complex major incidents.
Advocate for and implement security, governance, and compliance best practices
Mentor team members and promote knowledge sharing around SRE practices and Standards
Qualifications
Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
6+ years’ experience in cloud engineering, SRE, or DevOps roles with at least 4 years supporting mission critical systems and/or applications
Experience building high-performance, resilient, scalable, and well-engineered systems
Practical experience designing and operating large-scale cloud-based distributed applications
Strong hands-on skills with infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform), automation (Python/Scala), and containerization (Kubernetes, Docker).
Familiarity with AI capabilities including LLM, RAG, and AI Agents
Working knowledge of distributed storage, data formats (Parquet, Avro), and modern analytics platforms.
Solid understanding of networking, cloud security, and compliance
Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills
Disaster recovery, redundancy, and operational uptime planning experience
Experience with agile software development
Preferred certifications: SRE, Cloud Architect/Engineer (OCI, AWS, Azure, GCP), DevOps
Desired Traits
Resourcefulness in the face of unique constraints
Always iterating on ways to be more productive and effective
You capture and prioritize automation of toil tasks
General problem solving skills, critical thinking, and attention to detail
Eagerness to learn and to teach
Qualifications
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: $74,900 to $158,200 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 package which includes the following:
1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
2. Short term disability and long term disability
3. Life insurance and AD&D
4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
8. Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
9. 11 paid holidays
10. Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
11. Paid parental leave
12. Adoption assistance
13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan
14. Financial planning and group legal
15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance
The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.
Career Level - IC3
Salary : $74,900 - $158,200