Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Senior Sre

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is seeking a talented and motivated senior site reliability engineer (SRE) to join our dynamic team that builds platform capabilities. Our team is responsible for ingesting large volumes of data at scale and run detections at scale on both data at rest and in motion (as in a stream).

Responsibilities:

• Work with site reliability engineering (SRE) team on the shared full stack ownership of a collection of services and/or technology areas.
• Understand the end-to-end configuration, technical dependencies, and overall behavioral characteristics of production services.
• Responsible for the design and delivery of the mission critical stack, with focus on security, resiliency, scale, and performance.
• Authority for end-to-end performance and operability.
• Partner with development teams in defining and implementing improvements in service architecture.
• Articulate technical characteristics of services and technology areas and guide development teams to engineer and add premier capabilities to the Oracle Cloud service portfolio.
• Understand and communicate the scale, capacity, security, performance attributes, and requirements of the service and technology stack.
• Demonstrate clear understanding of automation and orchestration principles.
• Act as ultimate escalation point for complex or critical issues that have not yet been documented as standard operating procedures (SOPs).
• Utilize a deep understanding of service topology and their dependencies required to troubleshoot issues and define mitigations.
• Understand and explain the affect of product architecture decisions on distributed systems.
• Professional curiosity and a desire to develop a deep understanding of services and technologies.

Minimum qualifications:

• Minimum 4 years of hands-on platform engineering, devops or SRE experience.
• Technical role with a history of embracing automated processes, cloud native application design principles and a CI/CD DevOps model.
• Experience with production operations and best practices for deploying quality code in production and troubleshooting issues when they arise.
• Experience with public cloud (OCI, AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Knowledge of infrastructure as code (IaaC), configuration as code (CaC), GitOps and tools such as Terraform, Argo CD, Flux, etc.
• Experience and working knowledge in languages like Java / Python.
• Experience deploying, configuring, managing and debugging cloud infrastructure and platform software such as OpenStack, Kubernetes, etc.
• Experience with public cloud managed Kubernetes (such as OCI/OKE, AWS/EKS, GCP/GKE, Azure/AKS).
• Experience with cloud-native administration and monitoring/alerting technologies such as Docker, Helm, Prometheus, Grafana, EFK/ELK, Jaeger, or similar technologies.
• Experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines, platforms and components such as Jenkins, Argo CD.
• Knowledge of version control using Git.
• Experience in Linux/Unix environment.
• Experience with application frameworks such as Spring, Helidon, Micronaut, etc. is a plus.
• Strong trouble shooting capabilities targeting complicated problems in remote systems.
• Excellent team skills, can-do attitude, focus on quality.
• BS or MS in computer science, computer engineering, or equivalent.

Disclaimer: Certain US customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization and occupational health mandates.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only US: hiring range in USD from: $79,200 to $178,100 per annum. May be eligible for bonus and equity.