Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Oracle Oracle · Enterprise · United States

Senior Site Reliability Engineer role focused on building and operating scalable, reliable infrastructure for the Oracle Health Patient Portal. The role involves advancing automation, observability, and AI-assisted reliability practices within cloud operations, with a strong emphasis on distributed systems, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and incident response. While AI tools are used to enhance operations, the core function is infrastructure engineering and reliability.

What you'd actually do

  1. Design, build, and operate reliable, scalable, and secure infrastructure supporting large-scale distributed systems
  2. Improve system reliability through automation, monitoring, and performance optimization
  3. Contribute to the adoption of AI-assisted approaches for operations, including: Enhancing observability and alerting, Supporting automated incident detection and remediation, Exploring intelligent automation for infrastructure lifecycle management
  4. Partner with development teams to enhance service architecture, scalability, and operability
  5. Perform root cause analysis and implement long-term fixes to prevent recurrence

Skills

Required

  • Experience building and operating high-availability, fault-tolerant systems
  • Strong understanding of distributed systems, performance monitoring, and resiliency patterns
  • Experience with incident response, root-cause analysis, and production troubleshooting
  • Experience with one or more cloud environments OCI, AWS/Azure
  • Advanced competency in CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Kubernetes)
  • Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
  • Observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana)
  • Strong focus on automation-first operations
  • Proficiency in Data Warehousing platforms (e.g., Vertica, Snowflake)
  • Experience with ETL frameworks and large-scale data processing
  • Understanding of columnar storage systems
  • Proficiency in Python, Java, or Go
  • Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and shell scripting
  • Strong troubleshooting skills with ability to perform root-cause analysis
  • Experience resolving complex production issues in distributed systems
  • Apply DevOps/SRE practices to automate deployments and operations
  • Enhance observability using Prometheus/Grafana and AI-driven insights
  • Participate in on-call rotations
  • Implement preventative and automated remediation solutions
  • Work closely with engineers to execute technical roadmaps
  • Contribute to code reviews and infrastructure improvements
  • 4+ years of software engineering, cloud infrastructure, SRE, or DevOps experience
  • Proven ownership of production system reliability in cloud environments
  • Cloud infrastructure design and automation
  • Distributed systems and performance optimization
  • Data warehousing and ETL frameworks
  • Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes
  • Observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana)
  • Python, Java, or Go
  • Strong problem-solving mindset with a focus on automation and scalability
  • Experience improving system reliability through intelligent automation

Nice to have

  • Experience in healthcare or regulated environments (HIPAA, compliance frameworks)
  • Experience working in environments requiring security clearance
  • Experience building self-healing or autonomous infrastructure systems

What the JD emphasized

  • U.S. citizenship is required for this position, as the successful candidate will be required to obtain (and maintain) a U.S. government security clearance after hire.