Lead Principal Site Reliability Engineer
About the job
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- At least 8 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or Systems Engineering.
- Experience supporting production environments with strict availability requirements.
- Hands-on experience with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure or another major cloud provider such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and container orchestration platforms.
- Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code; Terraform is preferred.
- Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Azure DevOps.
- Strong scripting skills in Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
- Experience with Linux system administration.
- Strong understanding of networking concepts including DRG, DNS, load balancing, routing, APIs, and endpoints.
- Experience with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, Splunk, Datadog, New Relic, or OCI Native Observability services.
- Experience supporting financial services or other highly regulated industries.
- Knowledge of disaster recovery, backup strategies, and business continuity.
- Maintain high availability, reliability, and performance of enterprise applications and cloud infrastructure.
- Design and implement automation to reduce manual operational effort and improve deployment consistency.
- Develop Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and automation scripts using Python, Bash, or similar languages.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines to support automated deployments and release management.
- Monitor applications and infrastructure using observability platforms, including metrics, logs, traces, and alerting.
- Define and maintain Service Level Indicators, Service Level Objectives, and error budgets.
- Participate in on-call rotations and respond to production incidents with urgency and professionalism.
- Conduct root cause analysis and implement corrective and preventive actions to eliminate recurring issues.
- Perform capacity planning, performance tuning, and scalability assessments.
- Support Kubernetes clusters, containerized workloads, and cloud-native applications.
- Collaborate with development teams to improve application resiliency, fault tolerance, and operational readiness.
- Partner with security teams to ensure systems comply with enterprise security and regulatory requirements.
- Create operational runbooks, documentation, and standard operating procedures.
- Continuously improve platform reliability through automation, monitoring, and operational best practices.
- Own forecasting infrastructure demands and strategically respond to capacity needs, ensuring systems have sufficient resources for current and future workloads and anticipating resource gaps.
- Seek opportunities for prototyping and encourage implementation of prototyping initiatives, such as testing new applications or infrastructures and assisting in onboarding.
- Identify and project resource gaps using cost calculators and identify alternative solutions to lower costs when necessary.
- Guide others in monitoring services, maintain current knowledge of service performance, and document service condition.
- Oversee root cause analyses for incidents or maintenance on assigned services, including software installs, version upgrades, security updates, backup, and recovery, ensuring efficient execution and preventing recurrence.
- Provide strategic, future-oriented health and performance reporting and anticipate actions needed based on data trends.
- Provide expert-level release notes, communication, or guidance on the scale, capacity, security, and performance attributes and requirements of services and technology to customers, cross-functional teams, leadership, and external stakeholders.
- Provide leadership during on-call shifts.
- Lead resolution of multifaceted technical issues spanning multiple services, functions, and customers, collaborating across teams and using advanced investigation and debugging techniques to achieve service objectives.
- Provide input on strategic initiatives to improve performance bottlenecks and deployments, maximizing resource utilization, cost efficiency, speed, and scalability across the line of business.
- Provide expertise in site reliability trends and guide creation and sharing of insights and best practices to shape how services are built, tested, deployed, and run.
- Achieve and maintain service availability and reliability targets.
- Reduce mean time to detect and mean time to recover.
- Increase deployment frequency while minimizing change failure rates.
- Reduce operational toil through automation and self-service capabilities.
- Improve platform observability and proactive issue detection.
- Meet defined service objectives and error budget targets.
- Deliver resilient, secure, and scalable cloud platforms that support the client's critical business services.
- Terraform is preferred.
- Desired skills include Site Reliability Engineering, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Python, Bash, Linux administration, CI/CD pipelines, Git, monitoring and observability, incident management, root cause analysis, automation, capacity planning, performance tuning, networking, cloud security, high availability, disaster recovery, DevOps, and Agile methodologies.
About the company
Oracle builds databases, business applications, and cloud infrastructure for companies and public-sector organizations. Oracle Database stores and processes business data, while Oracle Cloud Infrastructure provides computing, storage, and networking for applications and AI workloads. Fusion Cloud Applications support finance, human resources, supply chains, and customer service, helping businesses manage everyday operations and reporting. Customers pay for cloud subscriptions and usage, software licenses, support, hardware, and consulting, with deployment options in Oracle's cloud or their own data centers. Oracle was founded in 1977 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.
Company Size
10,001+
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
Austin, Texas
Founded
1977
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Cloud infrastructure sales grew: Oracle reported $7.4 billion quarterly revenue, up 121% yearly, in September 2026.
- Employees build transferable skills: Oracle offers free product certifications and access to Coursera, O'Reilly, and LinkedIn Learning.
- Existing licenses create repeat business: Oracle sells annual technical support covering software updates, fixes, and assistance.
What critics are saying
- Expansion consumes cash: Oracle reported negative $5 billion free cash flow for its August 2026 quarter despite profitable operations.
- Job security faces active restructuring: Oracle's September 2026 filing added $700 million to a plan centered on employee severance.
- Future datacenters lock in costs: Oracle's September 2026 filing lists $288 billion of future lease commitments, typically lasting 15-19 years.
What makes Oracle unique
- Its database runs inside rival clouds: Oracle delivers native database services in AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud datacenters.
- Global expansion keeps one rate card: Oracle charges the same OCI service prices across regions, including government clouds.
- Hardware participates in database work: Oracle's Exadata storage servers process data-intensive queries alongside specialized database servers and networking.
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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
Growth & Insights and Company News
6 month growth
2%1 year growth
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