Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Site Reliability Developer

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) - OCI National Security Regions

Reston, VA/ Seattle, WA/ Austin, TX

https://www.oracle.com/cloud/ 

 

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our IT team, focusing on supporting Linux infrastructure services and advancing our CI/CD pipelines through Ansible automation. This role is pivotal in ensuring the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of our systems as we transition to more automated infrastructure management practices.

A great Senior Site Reliability Engineer will make all the difference for delivering quality solutions to our customers. Are you passionate about designing, developing, testing and delivering Infrastructure services?  Do you thrive in a fast-paced environment, and want to be an integral part of a truly great team?

Qualifications:

Disclaimer:

Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.

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

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $79,100 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

Responsibilities:

We are seeking a skilled Site Reliability Engineer to design, build, operate, and automate services for traditional IT infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have expertise in Oracle Linux, Ansible, and software development, ensuring the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of our systems.

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for:

• System Design and Operation:
  • Design and manage distributed Unix-based systems, particularly Oracle Linux.
  • Implement auto-scaling and self-healing infrastructure to ensure uptime and durability.
  • Tune system internals, including kernel parameters, networking, and filesystems, for high performance.
  • Maintain timely OS patching and compliance posture across environments.
  • Integrate systems with enterprise identity services such as Active Directory, LDAP, and Kerberos.
• Storage Management:
  • Design, implement, and manage distributed storage solutions using technologies like GlusterFS.
  • Ensure data reliability and availability through replication strategies and geo-replication.
  • Monitor and optimize storage performance, addressing bottlenecks and ensuring scalability.
  • Collaborate with development teams to understand storage requirements and provide appropriate solutions.
• Automation and Infrastructure as Code:
  • Develop and maintain infrastructure automation using Ansible and Terraform.
  • Automate deployment pipelines, service configurations, and patch management.
  • Develop scripts and services in Python and Bash to enhance infrastructure delivery workflows.
  • Extend APIs and platform automation to drive efficiency and repeatability.
• Observability and Incident Response:
  • Develop observability stacks using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and other open-source telemetry tools.
  • Create dashboards and SLO/SLI-based alerts for real-time monitoring of production systems.
  • Participate in a global 24/7 on-call rotation, leading responses for high-severity incidents.
  • Conduct post-incident analysis (RCA) and drive remediations that improve long-term reliability.
• Collaboration and Standards:
  • Partner with development teams to embed reliability in deployment pipelines.
  • Help define system architecture standards and maintain robust platform documentation.
  • Mentor engineers in Unix performance, observability, and debugging practices.
  • Champion a culture of automation, resilience, and continuous improvement.
• Mandatory Qualifications:
• Security Clearance:
  • US Government TS/SCI with Polygraph.
  • U.S. Citizenship required for Federal Government customer.
• Education and Experience:
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related engineering field.
  • 5 years of experience in software development/IT operations.
• Technical Skills:
  • 5 years in SRE, Infrastructure, or Systems Engineering roles managing production services.
  • Deep expertise with Unix/Linux systems, particularly Oracle Linux.
  • Experience in kernel tuning, performance profiling, and debugging complex system issues.
  • Proficiency in Python and Bash scripting.
  • Strong grasp of Infrastructure as Code tools like Ansible and Terraform.
  • Experience running hybrid infrastructure (on-premises) with VMware, containers, and Kubernetes.
  • Hands-on experience with monitoring, telemetry, and observability stacks.
  • Expertise in distributed storage systems, particularly GlusterFS.
  • Familiarity with storage protocols like NFS, SMB, iSCSI, or NVMe-oF.
• Soft Skills:
  • Excellent problem-solving skills; ability to multi-task and prioritize.
  • Ability to work independently; works well under pressure.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills with the ability to engage and influence.
  • Self-motivated, able, and willing to help where help is needed.
  • Able to build and establish relationships, be culturally sensitive, have goal alignment, and learning agility.
  • High-reaching to work with geographically distributed teams.
• Preferred Qualifications:
• Experience with virtualization and container technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience with continuous integration platforms such as Jenkins.
• Experience with monitoring and alerting technologies (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana).
• Experience with PostgreSQL; understanding of replication, failover, backups.
• Familiarity with other distributed storage systems like Ceph or MinIO.
• Additional Information:
• The position is located in Seattle, WA / Austin, TX/ Reston, VA
• Oracle is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.
• Detailed Description and Job Requirements - External 
• Design, develop, troubleshoot and debug software programs for databases, applications, tools, networks etc.

Salary : $79,100 - $158,200