Senior site reliability developer

Job Description

Role Summary

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), you will play a key role in ensuring the reliability, performance, and scalability of modern cloud-based AI applications for OCI Operations. This position involves close collaboration with development, operations, and security teams to automate processes, develop SRE standards, monitor system health, and maintain optimal uptime for critical AI applications. You will leverage your technical expertise to design, automate, and maintain AI services supporting mission-critical AI and ML initiatives.

Responsibilities

What You'll Do

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable, secure cloud infrastructure for AI Applications on OCI

• Collaborate with Engineering teams to build robust automation to build, deploy, and scale resilient systems

• Implement site reliability engineering best practices tailored for Applications: SLO/SLI definition, error budgeting, automated monitoring, data integrity validation, and incident response for services

• Identify opportunities and take ownership of automation and/or continuous improvement opportunities to run highly scalable reliable systems

• Design and optimize highly available services that are resilient to failures or impacts

• Automate infrastructure provisioning and CI/CD deployments with tools like Terraform, Ansible, or other IAC frameworks

• Instrument and monitor components for performance, availability, resource consumption, and latency using observability tools (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus)

• Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues, conducting root cause analyses and post-incident reviews

• Solve complex problems related to infrastructure cloud services and automate common tasks to ensure continuous availability with minimal human intervention.

• Utilize a deep understanding of cloud computing design patterns and their dependencies to mitigate complex major incidents.

• Advocate for and implement security, governance, and compliance best practices

• Mentor team members and promote knowledge sharing around SRE practices and Standards

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

• 6+ years' experience in cloud engineering, SRE, or DevOps roles with at least 4 years supporting mission critical systems and/or applications

• Experience building high-performance, resilient, scalable, and well-engineered systems

• Practical experience designing and operating large-scale cloud-based distributed applications

• Strong hands-on skills with infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform), automation (Python/Scala), and containerization (Kubernetes, Docker).

• Familiarity with AI capabilities including LLM, RAG, and AI Agents

• Working knowledge of distributed storage, data formats (Parquet, Avro), and modern analytics platforms.

• Solid understanding of networking, cloud security, and compliance

• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills

• Disaster recovery, redundancy, and operational uptime planning experience

• Experience with agile software development

• Preferred certifications: SRE, Cloud Architect/Engineer (OCI, AWS, Azure, GCP), DevOps

Desired Traits

• Resourcefulness in the face of unique constraints

• Always iterating on ways to be more productive and effective

• You capture and prioritize automation of toil tasks

• General problem solving skills, critical thinking, and attention to detail

• Eagerness to learn and to teach

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: $74,900 to $158,200 per annum. 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.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:

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

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.

Career Level - IC3

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