Principal Site Reliability Engineer (Join OCI-Ns2)

This position requires . Citizenship and an active TS / SCI w / Poly Security Clearance.

Are you someone with a passion for taking on big challenges? Are you interested in large-scale, highly distributed systems?

If so, then Oracle’s Cloud Infrastructure team is for you. We’re looking for Site Reliability Engineers (SRE’s) to help build highly distributed systems, platform services and tools for a highly distributed multi-tenant cloud environment at massive scale.

The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) team can provide you the opportunity to build and operate a suite of massive scale, integrated cloud services in a broadly distributed, multi-tenant cloud environment.

OCI is committed to providing the best in cloud products that meet the needs of our customers who are solving some of the world’s biggest challenges.

This is a key role within the OCI Compute SRE team with a strong emphasis in building solutions that support the delivery of incident and problem management.

We are looking for strong SRE’s to take on the challenge of engineering infrastructure solutions for scale and performance while providing strong guarantees of availability to our customers.

Your team will have diverse expertise in systems, networking, and software development to provide the stability, performance, and reliability our customers need.

You will build tools to address hard operational problems while enabling our service developers to remain agile and deliver feature changes.

You will deliver the solutions that directly impact our customer’s success.

A SRE will spend a significant amount of their time doing "ops" related work such as production issues and service on-call.

When not working on operations the SRE is working on software engineering tasks such as design and development of systems that increase our reliability, scalability and reduce operational overhead through automation.

The ideal SRE candidate is proficient programmer who has large breadth of knowledge and experience including areas such as networking, internet protocols and Linux systems.

Our SREs are close partners with service owners in all aspects of service operations and ownership. We have a strong culture of innovation and collaboration inspired by the DevOps philosophy.

Career Level -

This role will support Oracle's government customers.

Minimum Qualifications

• Possess and maintain active TS / SCI w / Poly Security Clearance.
• Degree in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding or equivalent practical experience.
• Proficient with writing services / task automation in Python, Bash, Ruby, Perl, JavaScript, or Java
• Proficient with interpersonal skills (writing, organization, learning exchange)
• Familiarity with core protocols (DNS, DHCP, HTTP, TCP)
• Deep knowledge of Linux internals and host-based networking
• Expert Linux / Unix performance and stability troubleshooting skills
• Familiarity with configuration management solutions such as Chef, Puppet, etc.
• Experience with devising, managing, and extending monitoring solutions for large scale environments.
• Experience in database management (Oracle DB, MYSQL, Postgres)
• Experience in shared file systems (Gluster, ZFS,
• Systematic problem-solving approach, strong communication skills, a sense of ownership and drive
• Deep understand of service metrics and alarms through the development of dashboards, service KPIs, alarming systems
• Experience working in an operational environment with mission critical tier one services with associated pager duty
• 5+ years managing large scale, highly distributed, services infrastructures
• 2+ years managing host virtualization technologies (KVM, Containers, Docker,

Preferred Qualifications

• Proficient in coding complex, distributed systems using Python, Ruby, Java, or C / C++
• Deep knowledge of Networking (TCP, UDP, DNS, DHCP, IPSec)
• Deep focus on building secure Internet facing systems and services in hostile environments
• 3+ years of experience in production software development with Agile methodologies
• 3+ years managing host, network, or storage virtualization technologies
• Expert troubleshooting skills
• Expert fleet automation and management solutions

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 : from $97,400 to $199,500 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 :

1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion

2. Short term disability and long term disability

3. Life insurance and AD&D

4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee / Spouse / Child)

5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts

6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits

7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match

8. 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.

9. 11 paid holidays

10. 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.

11. Paid parental leave

12. Adoption assistance

13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan

14. Financial planning and group legal

15. 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.