Lead Principal Site Reliability Engineer

Oracle

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Work type: On-site
Location: Nashville, TN
Salary: $96,300–$264,100 / yr
Posted: 103 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live today
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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TL;DR · Lead Principal Site Reliability Engineer

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The Lead Principal Site Reliability Engineer serves as a technical authority and consultant, leading the design and architecture of infrastructure and services for large-scale, distributed, business-critical platforms. This role involves owning capacity forecasting, defining reliability standards, and collaborating with software development teams to build scalable, fault-tolerant systems. Key responsibilities include establishing observability strategies using metrics, logs, and traces, managing incident responses, and implementing automation to reduce operational toil. The candidate will utilize technologies including Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, Chef, and Puppet, while programming in Python, Go, Java, JavaScript, or Bash. The work focuses on ensuring high availability, disaster recovery, and performance across cloud environments like Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform to maintain production stability and operational governance.

Skills

Site Reliability Engineering Kubernetes Docker Terraform Ansible Python Go Java Bash Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Microsoft Azure Google Cloud Platform infrastructure-as-code Observability Chaos Engineering Distributed Systems Networking

What you'll do

Define and drive the site reliability engineering strategy for large-scale, business-critical platforms.
Design and implement automation to reduce manual intervention, operational toil, and human error.
Develop comprehensive monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting, and observability strategies.
Provide technical leadership during complex, high-severity production incidents and lead blameless post-incident reviews.
Lead capacity planning, performance analysis, load testing, and demand forecasting for critical platforms.
Design and validate high-availability, disaster-recovery, and business-continuity capabilities.
Partner with security teams to embed security into infrastructure, automation, and operational practices.
Establish reliability standards, engineering practices, and operational readiness requirements across multiple teams.

What we're looking for

6 to 10+ years of experience in site reliability engineering, software engineering, cloud infrastructure, or a related technical discipline.
Extensive experience designing, operating, and improving highly available production systems at significant scale.
Deep knowledge of distributed systems, cloud architecture, networking, operating systems, storage, databases, and service dependencies.
Advanced experience with at least one major cloud platform such as OCI, AWS, Azure, or GCP.
Strong experience with containerization and orchestration technologies including Docker and Kubernetes.
Proven expertise with infrastructure-as-code and configuration-management tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Chef, or Puppet.
Strong programming or scripting skills in languages such as Python, Go, Java, JavaScript, or Bash.
Bachelor’s or advanced degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or a related field (preferred).

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