Lead Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer

Oracle

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Work type
On-site
Location
Nashville, TN
Salary
$146,300–$306,400 / yr
Posted
25 days ago
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TL;DR · Lead Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer

The Lead Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer joins the team to mentor engineers and lead the architecture of scalable, resilient physical security platforms on OCI. This role involves designing fault-tolerant systems for access control, video management, credentialing, and alarm monitoring. You will define performance, availability, and data-retention requirements while removing bottlenecks across real-time event and telemetry pipelines. Key responsibilities include architecting secure identity, encryption, and audit controls, and driving infrastructure-as-code and automated deployment strategies for cloud and edge environments. You will utilize containers, orchestration platforms, APIs, event-driven architectures, databases, and messaging technologies. The work focuses on solving complex technical problems for global sites, ensuring high availability and offline continuity for business-critical security infrastructure, including integrations with cameras, badge readers, and sensors.

What you'll do

  • Lead the architecture and technical direction of large-scale physical security platforms on OCI.
  • Design highly available, fault-tolerant, and in-service-upgradable systems for global sites and large device fleets.
  • Define performance, scalability, availability, durability, and data-retention requirements with cross-functional stakeholders.
  • Establish SLOs, KPIs, telemetry, and resilience mechanisms like failover, throttling, and offline continuity.
  • Architect secure identity, authorization, encryption, and device-communication controls across cloud and edge environments.
  • Lead complex production investigations, incident response, and root-cause analyses to improve long-term reliability.
  • Drive infrastructure-as-code, automated deployment, patching, and disaster-recovery strategies.
  • Mentor engineers and influence cross-organizational technical decisions to raise engineering standards.

What we're looking for

  • 10+ years of experience.
  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Extensive experience designing and operating large-scale, distributed, cloud-native software platforms.
  • Strong knowledge of system architecture, networking, data consistency, high availability, disaster recovery, and performance engineering.
  • Experience building services using containers, orchestration platforms, APIs, event-driven architectures, databases, and messaging or streaming technologies.
  • Demonstrated expertise in cloud security, identity and access management, encryption, auditability, vulnerability remediation, and secure software delivery.
  • Experience with infrastructure as code, CI/CD, configuration management, observability, and site reliability engineering practices.
  • Experience with OCI services and architecture, particularly compute, networking, storage, Kubernetes, identity, monitoring, and security services (preferred).

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