Senior Core Infrastructure Engineer, OCI Planning & Capacity

Oracle; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Oracle Corporation is seeking a Senior Core Infrastructure Engineer for the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Planning and Capacity Management team in Nashville, TN. This onsite role focuses on building scalable, resilient backend services and automating infrastructure planning workflows.

You will design, develop, and maintain APIs and automation solutions, contribute to reliability, and drive capacity planning initiatives across engineering, operations, supply chain, and finance.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing and maintaining backend services and APIs.
• Strong focus on scalability, resiliency, and operability of distributed systems.
• Proven ability to implement automation and IaC for operational reliability.

Responsibilities

• Designs, implements, and optimizes components in distributed systems with an emphasis on scalability and operability.
• Delivers features and tests; builds fault-tolerant paths and automatic failover.
• Implements monitoring, runbooks, alarms, and incident response processes.
• Develops automation/IaC and enforces security controls across systems.
• Collaborates with teams to ensure change management, compliance, and documentation standards.

Skills

Distributed systems

Scalability

Resiliency

Operability

Load testing

Performance testing

Automation

IaC

Security controls

Incident response

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Monitoring dashboards

Job description

Location:Nashville, TN — onsite 5 days/week. Relocation assistance is available; this is not a remote position.

Job Summary

Designs, implements, and optimizes components in distributed systems with an emphasis on scalability, resiliency, and operability. Delivers features and load/performance tests; leverages data plane platforms and distributed state tools for high-volume retrieval, storage, and processing; and reviews peers’ implementations for scalability compliance. Builds fault-tolerant paths (redundancy, replication, automatic failover), applies recovery‑oriented principles, and implements retries, circuit breakers, and timeouts. Proactively detects and mitigates issues via tests, alarms, dashboards, and telemetry; authors runbooks and participates in incident response and RCAs. Implements standard replication and synchronization, develops automation/IaC for troubleshooting and maintenance, and applies advanced security controls (encryption, access, remediation) while ensuring change, compliance, and documentation standards are met.

About the Team & Organization

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is seeking a motivated Senior Core Infrastructure Engineer to join the OCI Infrastructure Planning and Capacity Management organization.

The OCI Infrastructure Planning and Capacity Management team builds software solutions that improve how OCI manages infrastructure capacity, sources resources, and plans for future demand. Our work spans planning and forecasting services, infrastructure sourcing workflows, process automation, data integration, and operational reporting. We focus on improving decision quality, increasing operational visibility, and reducing manual effort across engineering, operations, supply chain, and finance.

In this role, you will design, develop, and maintain backend services, APIs, and workflow automation solutions that support critical infrastructure planning and capacity management processes. You will independently deliver software components, collaborate on technical designs, and contribute to the reliability, scalability, and maintainability of production systems.

You will work on both new capabilities and enhancements to existing systems, applying strong software engineering fundamentals and modern development practices to solve complex technical and operational challenges.