Job Description 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 Responsibilities 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 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 - IC4 About Us As a world leader in cloud solutions, Oracle uses tomorrow’s technology to tackle today’s challenges. We’ve partnered with industry-leaders in almost every sector—and continue to thrive after 40+ years of change by operating with integrity. We know that true innovation starts when everyone is empowered to contribute. That’s why we’re committed to growing an inclusive workforce that promotes opportunities for all. Oracle careers open the door to global opportunities where work-life balance flourishes. We offer competitive benefits based on parity and consistency and support our people with flexible medical, life insurance, and retirement options. 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About the Company: Oracle For over three decades, Oracle has been the center of innovation for business software birthplace of the first commercially available relational database, the first suite of internet-based applications, and the next-generation enterprise-computing platform, Oracle Fusion. Today, Oracle provides the world's most complete, open, and integrated business software and hardware systems, with more than 370,000 customers including - 100 of the Fortune 100 - representing a variety of sizes and industries in more than 145 countries around the globe. And Oracle's 110,000 global employees - including 30,000 developers working full-time on Oracle products -are critical to that success. Oracle Supports Workforce Diversity Company Size: 10,000 employees or more Industry: Computer/IT Services Founded: 1977
Job Type
Fulltime role
Skills required
CI/CD, Python, Java, Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins, Git
Location
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Salary
No salary information was found.
Date Posted
June 11, 2025
Oracle is seeking a Principal Site Reliability Engineer to enhance the reliability and performance of its OCI services. This role involves incident management and collaboration with development teams to ensure high service availability.