Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer (SRE)

Oracle; Leeds; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Oracle in the United Kingdom is hiring an SRE to support OCI storage and data services, with a focus on reliability, operations, automation, and scaling production services. This role suits someone with a strong SRE or infrastructure engineering background who enjoys building operational tooling, improving service reliability, and supporting critical cloud services at scale.

Responsibilities include production support across UK time zones, building automation, improving monitoring, telemetry,

Qualifications

• Strong SRE or infrastructure background with focus on reliability and operability.
• Experience building observability, dashboards, and alerting.
• Ability to diagnose complex reliability issues and drive improvements.
• Experience with storage, databases, streaming, or data-oriented services is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Support OCI storage and data services in production.
• Provide operational coverage across UK and non-US time zones.
• Build automation to reduce manual operational work.
• Improve monitoring, dashboards, telemetry, and alerting.
• Support incident response, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis.
• Build tools and processes that improve reliability and operational efficiency.
• Partner closely with engineering teams to improve service readiness and resilience.

Skills

SRE / infra engineering

Observability & monitoring

Incident management

Reliability improvements

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

Automation tooling

Job description

We’re hiring an SRE to support new OCI storage and data services, with a focus on reliability, operations, automation, and scaling production services.

This role is ideal for someone with a strong SRE or infrastructure engineering background who enjoys building operational tooling, improving service reliability, and supporting critical cloud services at scale.

Key responsibilities:

• Support OCI storage and data-oriented services in production
• Provide operational coverage across UK and non-US time zones
• Build automation to reduce manual operational work
• Improve monitoring, dashboards, telemetry, and alerting
• Support incident response, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis
• Build tools and processes that improve reliability and operational efficiency
• Partner closely with engineering teams to improve service readiness and resilience

Ideal experience:

• Strong SRE, infrastructure, or production engineering background
• Hands-on experience with observability, dashboards, alerting, and incident management
• Ability to diagnose complex issues and drive long-term reliability improvements
• Background in storage, databases, streaming, distributed systems, or data-oriented services

Relevant technical backgrounds may include:

• Database internals, such as MySQL or Oracle
• Block storage, file systems, SAN, or distributed storage
• Streaming, replication, or key-value systems
• Large-scale platforms with similarities to Kafka, DynamoDB, or database-like systems

This is a great opportunity for someone who wants to work on high-impact cloud infrastructure, improve the reliability of critical services, and help mature systems as they scale.