Principal Site Reliability Developer

Oracle; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company seeks a Principal Site Reliability Developer to take ownership of critical services and ensure performance and security. This role requires 5+ years of experience in engineering or DevOps with a deep understanding of cloud technologies. The candidate will collaborate with development teams to improve service architecture and must possess strong communication and problem-solving skills.

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in Systems Engineering, DevOps or SRE roles.
• Comfort with complex, rapidly evolving software development environments.
• Solid understanding of PKI, mTLS, SSL, SSH.

Responsibilities

• Work with SRE team on full stack ownership of services.
• Design and deliver mission critical stack focusing on security and performance.
• Act as escalation point for complex issues not documented.

Skills

Kubernetes

Terraform

Helm

Docker

Go

Python

Bash/Shell

Tools

JIRA

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Posted:

02.06.2025

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17.07.2025

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Job Description:

• Work with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team on the shared full stack ownership of a collection of services and/or technology areas.
• Understand the end-to-end configuration, technical dependencies, and overall behavioral characteristics of production services.
• 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.
• 5+ years experience in Systems Engineering, DevOps or SRE roles running large scale infrastructure, cloud or web services
• Proficiency with the following: Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, Docker
• Proficiency in language like Go, Python, Bash/Shell
• Familiarity with several of the following technologies: Infrastructure-as-a-Service (AWS/Azure/Google Cloud), CI/CD systems (BitBucket/TeamCity/GitLab), Proxies (Envoy, Ngnix)
• Understanding of Linux operating systems: Oracle Linux (Red Hat, CentOS)
• Systematic problem-solving approach, strong communication skills, a sense of ownership and drive
• Solid understanding of PKI, mTLS, SSL, SSH
• Experience with Agile Development (Scrum or Kanban)
• Experience with production operations and good practices for putting quality code in production and troubleshoot issues when they arise
• Strong team player with outstanding communication, organization, and interpersonal skills
• Comfort with complex, rapidly evolving software development environments
• Experience running large scale customer-facing web services
• Experience using ticket tracking systems such as JIRA