Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Job Description

We are seeking a skilled Site Reliability Engineer to design, build, operate, and automate services for traditional IT infrastructure.

• Design and architect reliable, scalable infrastructure for current and future workloads.
• Assist teammates in scaling infrastructure and handling capacity increases.
• Collaborate with software development to deliver reliable and scalable solutions based on detailed deployment requirements.
• Identify and support prototyping initiatives, including testing new applications or infrastructures.
• Collect data for triage, prepare incident reports, and maintain up‑to‑date knowledge of service performance.
• Support incident response, maintenance tasks, security updates, backups, and recovery under supervision.
• Provision and decommission infrastructure assets following established procedures.
• Seek automation opportunities, develop scripts, and test automation to improve operations.
• Communicate infrastructure capacity, security, and performance attributes within the team.
• Provide on‑call support, investigate, debug, and document technical incidents.
• Analyze incident trends, perform root cause analyses, and engage in post‑mortem activities to prevent recurrence.
• Experiment with new tools and technologies to improve performance and reliability.
• Support execution of performance enhancements and deployments.
• Build and maintain observability stacks, dashboards, and alerts for system monitoring.
• Design, implement, and manage distributed storage solutions and replication strategies.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure automation using Ansible, Terraform, Python, and Bash.
• Mentor junior engineers on Unix performance, observability, and debugging practices.
• Participate in a 24/7 on‑call rotation and lead responses for high‑severity incidents.
• Contribute to defining system architecture standards and maintaining robust platform documentation.
• Champion a culture of automation, resilience, and continuous improvement.

• Security Clearance: U.S. Government TS/SCI with Polygraph; U.S. Citizenship required for Federal Government customer.
• Education:
  
  Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Experience:
  
  5+ years in software development, IT operations, or senior SRE roles.
• Technical
  
  Skills:
  • Expertise with Unix/Linux systems, Oracle Linux preferred; kernel tuning and performance profiling.
  • Proficiency in Python and Bash scripting.
  • Strong knowledge of Infrastructure as Code tools such as Ansible and Terraform.
  • Experience building and managing hybrid infrastructure (on‑premises, VMware, containers, Kubernetes).
  • Hands‑on experience with monitoring, telemetry, and observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana).
  • Expertise with distributed storage systems, especially GlusterFS; familiarity with NFS, SMB, iSCSI, NVMe‑OF.
  • Understanding of database replication, failover, and backup (PostgreSQL).
  • Experience with continuous integration platforms (Jenkins) and container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Soft Skills:
  • Excellent problem‑solving and multitasking abilities.
  • Strong communication, collaboration, and influence skills.
  • Ability to work independently under pressure and with geographically distributed teams.
  • Self‑motivated and willing to help where needed.
• Preferred Qualifications:
  • Experience with Helm, ArgoCD, or similar deployment tools.
  • Knowledge of additional distributed storage systems (Ceph, MinIO).

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Short‑term and long‑term disability coverage.
• Life insurance and AD&D.
• Health-FSA and dependent care FSA.
• Pre‑tax commuter and parking benefits.
• 401(k) savings plan with company match.
• Paid time off: flexible vacation, sick leave, and paid parental leave.
• Paid holidays, adoption assistance, and employee stock purchase plan.
• Voluntary benefits: auto, homeowner, pet insurance.

Oracle is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.