Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer

Ll Oefentherapie; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is seeking a Principal Site Reliability Engineer to enhance reliability and performance of storage/database services. You will own live-service issue responses, build automation, and release readiness for production deployments.

You will collaborate across teams to reduce incidents, implement scalable operational solutions, and drive capacity planning and security-focused reliability improvements.

Qualifications

• 8+ years’ experience in Site Reliability Engineering focusing on storage, networking and database troubleshooting for improving application reliability.
• Excellent troubleshooting skills for resolving critical production issues in cloud services.
• Scripting in Linux to automate routine or manual tasks.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and Git tools (GitHub, Bitbucket, Git).
• Container administration and development using Kubernetes, Docker or similar.
• Configuration management experience.
• Programming in Python, Golang, Terraform.
• Experience with Grafana monitoring.
• Experience in managing 24x7 high-availability production applications.
• Excellent verbal and written communication, and organizational skills.
• Familiar with Agile software development with Jira.

Responsibilities

• Improve stability, performance, and reliability of OCI storage and database services.
• Collaborate with multiple development teams to mitigate operational risks.
• Respond to live service issues and develop automation/tools for reliability.
• Own release certification by judging production readiness of code.
• Define and deliver mission-critical, secure, scalable services.

Skills

SRE experience

Cloud storage

Database troubleshooting

Linux scripting

CI/CD pipelines

Jenkins

Git

Kubernetes

Docker

Configuration management

Python

Go (Golang)

Terraform

Grafana

24x7 production support

Agile/Jira

Tools

Jenkins

Kubernetes

Docker

Grafana

Terraform

GitHub

Bitbucket

Job description

Core Infrastructure Engineering within Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is seeking a motivated Principal Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) who thrives in a fast-paced, rapidly evolving technology environment. The ideal candidate should have experience supporting cloud-scale, highly distributed storage or database services on major cloud platforms such as OCI, AWS, GCP, or Azure.

You will be focused on improving service reliability, performance and operability of services used by Oracle OCI Tier-0 services and Oracle customers. You will have your hand on the pulse of the services and will play a key role in responding to live service issues. As a hands-on engineer with strong coding skills. You will debug complex production issues, build automation and monitoring tools. You will have the opportunity to create automation and tooling that will allow us to continuously improve our services. You will own the release certification process by determining whether code is ready for production deployment.

In this role, you will be responsible for improving the stability, performance, and reliability of database and storage services which are backbone of OCI. You will collaborate with multiple development teams to identify and resolve cross-functional operational risks by combining engineering expertise, troubleshooting skills, and operational best practices. The role requires a high degree of independence, excellent communication and organizational skills, and a strong commitment to improving customer experience by enhancing service reliability, reducing support tickets, and delivering scalable operational solutions. You will also define and deliver mission-critical services with a strong focus on security, resiliency, scalability, capacity planning, performance management, deployment, and release engineering.

Qualifications

• 8+ years’ experience in Site Reliability Engineering and in storage, networking and database troubleshooting for improving application reliability, scalability, availability
• Excellent troubleshooting skills for resolving critical production issues in cloud services
• Expertise in developing scripts (linux scripting), utilities and tools to automate routine or manual intensive tasks
• Solid experience with CI/CD pipelines, Jenkins and Version Control tools (GitHub, Bit Bucket, GIT)
• Container administration and development experience utilizing Kubernetes, Docker or similar
• Solid experience with Configuration Management tools
• Programming languages development experience using Python, Golang, Terraform
• Experience with monitoring tools such as Grafana
• Experience in managing 24×7 high-availability production applications
• Excellent organizational, verbal, and written communication skills
• Good understanding of Agile software development principles including using common tools such as JIRA