Principal Site Reliability Engineer

Oracle; Columbia (SC); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Oracle Health is seeking a Principal Site Reliability Engineer to strengthen reliability, performance, security, and scalability of the Citrix platform powering Oracle Health Millennium and related healthcare applications.

You will own complex reliability initiatives from design through production, mentor engineers, and collaborate across infrastructure, networking, identity, security, database, and application teams to prevent service failures and automate operations.

Qualifications

• Extensive site reliability or systems engineering experience with ownership of critical enterprise services.
• Hands-on experience with Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops environments and related components (StoreFront, VDAs, provisioning, image lifecycle).
• Strong Windows Server troubleshooting and Active Directory, DNS, and certificate knowledge.
• Proficient in PowerShell development for automation, testing, and operations.
• Ability to lead complex initiatives, mentor engineers, and drive automation and reliability improvements.

Responsibilities

• Own service reliability across authentication, discovery, session launch, and performance metrics.
• Design, operate, and improve Citrix environments and dependencies.
• Automate platform operations with scripts and repeatable workflows.
• Improve observability with monitoring dashboards, logs, and alerts.
• Lead incident response, RCA, and corrective actions to reduce recurrence.
• Plan for growth, high availability, DR, and capacity headroom.
• Deliver safe platform changes including Citrix/Windows upgrades and cloud migrations.
• Collaborate with security and infrastructure teams on hardening and configuration baselines.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship across teams.

Skills

Citrix expertise

Windows Server

PowerShell

Automation

Observability

Incident response

Technical leadership

Tools

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

StoreFront

VDAs

Provisioning Services

Job description

Job Description

About the Opportunity

Help ensure healthcare professionals can reliably access the applications they depend on to deliver patient care.

Oracle Health is seeking a Principal Site Reliability Engineer to strengthen the reliability, performance, security, and scalability of our Citrix platform. The platform delivers access to Oracle Health Millennium and supporting applications used in clinical and business workflows.

In this hands‑on role, you will own complex reliability initiatives from design through production operation. You will combine deep Citrix and Windows expertise with software engineering practices to automate operations, improve the user experience, and prevent recurring service failures. You will also guide technical decisions, mentor engineers, and partner across infrastructure, networking, identity, security, database, and application teams.

What You’ll Do

• Own service reliability. Drive improvements across the application-access journey, including authentication, application discovery, session launch, and in-session performance. Define service-level indicators and objectives that reflect customer experience.

• Engineer resilient Citrix services. Design, operate, and improve Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops environments, including Delivery Controllers, StoreFront, Virtual Delivery Agents, Provisioning Services, and their supporting dependencies.

• Automate platform operations. Build maintainable PowerShell scripts and automation for provisioning, configuration, image management, patching, validation, and recovery. Reduce repetitive work through tested, repeatable workflows.

• Improve observability. Develop actionable monitoring, dashboards, synthetic checks, and alerts for application-launch success, logon performance, session-host registration, provisioning health, and capacity.

• Lead complex troubleshooting. Coordinate technical response to significant incidents, isolate failures across service dependencies, and drive root‑cause analysis and corrective actions that reduce recurrence.

• Plan for growth and recovery. Assess concurrent‑session demand, resource utilization, and capacity headroom. Validate high availability, failover, and disaster recovery through documented exercises.

• Deliver safe platform changes. Lead Citrix and Windows upgrades, image updates, and cloud migration work, including initiatives involving Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Establish readiness criteria, deployment validation, and rollback procedures.

• Strengthen security and configuration practices. Partner with security and infrastructure teams on vulnerability remediation, certificate lifecycle management, access controls, configuration baselines, and drift detection.

• Provide technical leadership. Own substantial projects independently, explain architectural trade‑offs, review designs and automation, mentor engineers, and improve engineering practices across teams.

• Participate in the team’s production on‑call rotation and planned maintenance activities, including work outside standard business hours when required.

Designs and architects infrastructure and service to ensure reliability and functionality. Forecasts demands and responds to capacity needs. Collaborates with software development teams to develop reliable and scalable infrastructures. Exercises judgment when performing data collection to maintain and optimize operations and reliability. Leverages advanced knowledge to perform incident response and/or maintenance tasks. Provides comprehensive health and performance reporting. Identifies and recommends opportunities for automation. Communicates comprehensive information about services and proactively anticipates and articulates the potential impact of changes. Provides comprehensive support for technology and documents incidents. Conducts advanced experiments with new tools and develops and maintains advanced knowledge of site reliability trends.

Responsibilities

Team Required Qualifications

• Extensive experience in site reliability engineering, systems engineering, infrastructure engineering, or production operations, with demonstrated ownership of critical enterprise services.

• Deep hands‑on experience engineering and supporting production Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops environments, including session brokering, StoreFront, VDAs, provisioning, and image lifecycle management.

• Advanced Windows Server troubleshooting skills and a strong understanding of Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS, certificates, and authentication dependencies.

• Strong PowerShell development skills, including building, testing, troubleshooting, and maintaining operational automation.

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