Principal Application Software Engineer

Oracle Corporation; India; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Oracle Corporation in India is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer — Cloud and Automation to design, provision, and operate scalable cloud infrastructure. The role emphasizes hands-on work with Terraform, Chef, Kubernetes, and Python, building automated, reliable environments from provisioning to production operations.

You'll contribute to CI/CD pipelines, incident response, monitoring, and security best practices, collaborating with development and security teams to improve reliability and

Qualifications

• Strong experience in infrastructure engineering, cloud operations, or a related role.
• Proficiency with Terraform, including reusable modules, state management, and infrastructure change workflows.
• Hands-on experience with Chef and configuration management.
• Experience deploying and operating workloads on cloud platforms (OCI, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).
• Availability for 24x7 on-call rotation including nights and weekends.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes, containers, and Docker.
• Proficiency in Python for automation and tooling.
• Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting skills.
• Networking fundamentals: DNS, routing, load balancing, TLS, firewalls.
• Experience with Git, code review, and CI/CD practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, provision, and maintain cloud infrastructure using Terraform.
• Develop and maintain Chef cookbooks for configuration management.
• Deploy, configure, and troubleshoot Kubernetes workloads and clusters.
• Write Python scripts and tools to automate provisioning, deployments, maintenance, and operational tasks.
• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure changes and application deployments.
• Respond to production alerts and incidents during on-call shifts, troubleshoot issues, restore service, and coordinate escalations as needed.
• Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, backup, and recovery capabilities.
• Troubleshoot infrastructure, networking, configuration, and deployment issues.
• Apply security best practices, including access controls, secrets management, and patching.
• Collaborate with development and security teams to improve reliability, performance, and deployment consistency.
• Maintain infrastructure documentation and operational runbooks.

Skills

Terraform

Chef

Kubernetes

Python

Linux administration

Networking

Git

CI/CD

Tools

Terraform

Chef

Kubernetes

Docker

Git

Helm

GitOps

Job description

• Does this position require a security clearance? No
• Years 3 to 5+ years
• Additional Info Visa / work permit sponsorship is not available for this position
• Applicants are required to read, write, and speak the following languages English

Responsibilities

Job Title: Infrastructure Engineer — Cloud and Automation

We’re looking for an Infrastructure Engineer to build, automate, and operate reliable cloud infrastructure. The ideal candidate has hands‑on experience with Terraform, Chef, Kubernetes, and Python, and can manage cloud deployments from initial provisioning through production operations. Software development experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design, provision, and maintain cloud infrastructure using Terraform.
• Develop and maintain Chef cookbooks for configuration management.
• Deploy, configure, and troubleshoot Kubernetes workloads and clusters.
• Write Python scripts and tools to automate provisioning, deployments, maintenance, and operational tasks.
• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure changes and application deployments.
• Respond to production alerts and incidents during assigned on-call shifts, troubleshoot issues, restore service, and coordinate escalations as needed.
• Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, backup, and recovery capabilities.
• Troubleshoot infrastructure, networking, configuration, and deployment issues.
• Apply security best practices, including access controls, secrets management, and patching.
• Collaborate with development and security teams to improve reliability, performance, and deployment consistency.
• Maintain infrastructure documentation and operational runbooks.

Required Qualifications

• Strong experience in infrastructure engineering, cloud operations, or a related role.
• Proficiency with Terraform, including reusable modules, state management, and infrastructure change workflows.
• Hands‑on experience with Chef and configuration management.
• Experience deploying and operating workloads on a major cloud platform, such as OCI, AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Availability to participate in a 24×7 on-call support rotation, including nights, weekends, and holidays.
• Practical knowledge of Kubernetes, containers, and Docker.
• Proficiency in Python for automation and operational tooling.
• Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting skills.
• Understanding of networking fundamentals, including DNS, routing, load balancing, TLS, and firewalls.
• Experience with Git, code review, and CI/CD practices.

Ability to diagnose problems independently and communicate clearly across teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Software development experience, including building APIs, services, or internal tools.
• Experience writing automated tests and maintaining production software.
• Familiarity with Helm, GitOps, and observability tools.
• Experience supporting highly available systems and disaster recovery.

Experience with cloud cost optimization and infrastructure security.

What Success Looks Like

You deliver repeatable deployments, reduce manual operational work, and improve infrastructure reliability. You treat infrastructure changes as code—reviewed, validated, documented, and maintained.

About Us

Only Oracle brings together the data, infrastructure, applications, and expertise to power everything from industry innovations to life‑saving care. And with AI embedded across our products and services, we help customers turn that promise into a better future for all. Discover your potential at a company leading the way in AI and cloud solutions that impact billions of lives.

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