Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer - Strategic Customer Engineering

Oracle; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 99,600 - 223,400; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match

Paid time off and holidays

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Short-term and long-term disability

Job summary

Oracle in Nashville, Tennessee is seeking a highly skilled Engineer for the Strategic Customer Engineering team. This role focuses on designing and executing scalable cloud infrastructure solutions, requiring excellent communication skills and a strong technical background in distributed systems.

Ideal candidates will possess over 5 years of cloud engineering experience and proficiency in Java, Linux, and various containerization technologies. Oracle offers a comprehensive benefits package, including competitive salary ranging from $99,600 to $223,400 per year.

Qualifications

• 5+ years distributed cloud engineering experience in a software development environment.
• Development experience in Java/C++/C# as well as scripting languages.
• Strong Linux skills with hands-on experience in Oracle Linux/RHEL/CentOS.

Responsibilities

• Design cloud infrastructure solutions ensuring scalability.
• Partner with customer engineering leadership for success.
• Troubleshoot performance and reliability issues.

Skills

distributed cloud engineering

Java/C++/C#

scripting languages (e.g., Ansible, Terraform)

containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)

Linux

networking concepts

problem-solving

documentation skills

communication skills

Job description

Job Overview

An engineer on the Strategic Customer Engineering team plays a critical role in aligning technical details across various service teams, collaborating with cross‑functional stakeholders, and driving end‑to‑end execution of complex projects. This engineer will design, coordinate, and execute technical solutions that have huge impact to our customer experience and scalability. Understanding various cloud technologies and technical trade‑offs, the ideal candidate will be an exceptionally strong communicator, both written and verbally, have a well‑rounded technical background, and come with a history of leading large‑scale projects end‑to‑end.

Key Qualifications

Your experience should be both deep and wide‑ranging, with strengths in internetworking, cloud infrastructure, Linux system internals, workflow scalability, and organizational effectiveness.

• 5+ years distributed cloud engineering experience in a software development environment
• Development experience in Java/C++/C# as well as scripting languages. Experience in scripting and automation using tools like Ansible, Terraform, and/or Kubernetes.
• Experience with containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) and orchestration tools for managing distributed systems.
• Strong Linux skills with hands‑on experience in Oracle Linux/RHEL/CentOS, Ubuntu, and Debian distributions, including system administration, package management, shell scripting, and performance optimization.
• Experience working with other cloud platform teams and accommodating requirements from those teams (compute, networking, storage, identity).
• Solid understanding of networking concepts, security principles, and best practices.
• Excellent problem‑solving skills, with the ability to troubleshoot complex issues and drive resolution in a fast‑paced environment.
• Written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex information in a clear, concise manner to all audiences.
• Strong documentation skills with experience documenting infrastructure designs, configurations, procedures, and troubleshooting steps to facilitate knowledge sharing, ensure maintainability, and enhance team collaboration.

Responsibilities

You will be responsible for ensuring that our cloud infrastructure solutions are designed and built with the highest level of scalability in mind. You will partner with other development teams responsible for architecting, designing, and implementing solutions within a distributed computing environment that lead to the best customer experience. This is a high‑impact role with high expectations. You will be expected to lead initiatives across engineering, operations, and leadership with minimal supervision.

• Partner with customer engineering leadership and OCI engineering leadership to ensure the success of your customers.
• Take ownership of problems and work to identify solutions.
• Ability to think through the solution and identify/document potential issues impacting your customers.
• Work with engineering teams to design infrastructure components such as cloud resources, distributed computing systems, and data storage solutions to support your customer's workflows.
• Troubleshoot infrastructure performance, scalability, and reliability issues and implement solutions to mitigate risks and minimize downtime.
• Document infrastructure designs, configurations, and procedures to facilitate knowledge sharing and ensure maintainability.

Disclaimer & Compliance

Both certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client‑facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.

Salary and Benefits

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $99,600 - $223,400 per year. May be eligible for bonus and equity.

Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.

Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion.
• Short‑term disability and long‑term disability.
• Life insurance and AD&D.
• Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child).
• Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts.
• Pre‑tax commuter and parking benefits.
• 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match.
• Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non‑overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
• 11 paid holidays.
• Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
• Paid parental leave.
• Adoption assistance.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• Financial planning and group legal.
• Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance.

Career Level

Career Level - IC4

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