Senior Infra Engineer: Oracle Exadata & Cloud Automation

The Hartford; Hartford (CT); Hybrid; USD 137,000 - 206,000; Full time

Job summary

The Hartford is seeking a Senior Staff Infrastructure Engineer to modernize Oracle Exadata platforms and lead automation across cloud and on‑prem infrastructure. You will own engineering standards, drive IaC with Terraform, OpenTofu, Ansible, and AWS CloudFormation, and mentor engineers while delivering production‑grade solutions.

In a hybrid setup, you will work from Hartford, CT three days a week (Tue–Thu), collaborating with cross‑functional teams to enhance security, reliability, and

Qualifications

• Authorized to work in the US without sponsorship.
• 8+ years of infrastructure engineering, database platform engineering, cloud engineering, or related enterprise technology experience.
• Deep expertise with Oracle Database and Exadata, including Oracle RAC, Data Guard, RMAN, ASM, PL/SQL, performance tuning, backup and recovery, resiliency, and capacity management.
• Hands-on experience designing or operating infrastructure in AWS.
• Strong infrastructure-as-code and automation experience using Terraform, OpenTofu, Ansible, AWS CloudFormation, Python, shell scripting, APIs, and REST-based integrations.
• Experience with Git-based development, testing, reusable modules, and continuous integration and delivery practices.
• Demonstrated ability to establish engineering standards and guardrails, troubleshoot complex enterprise environments, and lead technical initiatives across teams.
• Strong communication and mentoring skills, with the ability to explain technical decisions to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
• Experience using modern development environments such as Visual Studio Code.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate secure, highly available Oracle database platforms across Exadata and Oracle RDS.
• Engineer resiliency using Oracle RAC, Data Guard, SharePlex, backup and recovery capabilities, and Exadata platform features.
• Lead capacity planning, performance and cost optimization, migrations, upgrades, consolidations, and cloud transitions.
• Ensure platforms meet enterprise expectations for security, availability, recoverability, performance, and service levels.
• Design reusable infrastructure automation using Terraform, OpenTofu, Ansible, AWS CloudFormation, Python, and APIs.
• Apply software engineering practices to infrastructure, including modular design, version control, testing, validation, peer review, and CI/CD.
• Establish practical standards, guardrails, playbooks, and documentation for consistent provisioning and changes.
• Reduce operational complexity and manual work through automation and standardization.
• Lead troubleshooting and root-cause analysis for complex production issues while improving observability and reliability.
• Partner across teams to deliver enterprise-critical outcomes.
• Mentor engineers and strengthen infrastructure-as-code, automation, and cloud capabilities.

Skills

Oracle Exadata

Oracle RAC

Data Guard

RMAN

ASM

PL/SQL

Terraform

OpenTofu

Ansible

AWS CloudFormation

Python

Git

CI/CD

IAc

AI Tools

Cloud

Tools

Terraform

OpenTofu

Ansible

AWS CloudFormation

Python

Shell scripting

REST APIs

Git

Docker

Kubernetes

Liquibase

Job description

The Hartford is seeking a Senior Staff Infrastructure Engineer to modernize Oracle Exadata platforms and lead automation across cloud and on‑prem infrastructure. You will own engineering standards, drive IaC with Terraform, OpenTofu, Ansible, and AWS CloudFormation, and mentor engineers while delivering production‑grade solutions.

In a hybrid setup, you will work from Hartford, CT three days a week (Tue–Thu), collaborating with cross‑functional teams to enhance security, reliability, and