Lead Principal Site Reliability Engineer

Oracle

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Work type: On-site
Location: Nashville, TN
Salary: $96,300–$264,100 / yr
Posted: 5 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
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 to ensure reliability and functionality. This role involves owning demand forecasting, capacity needs, and cross-functional collaborations with software development teams to build scalable, fault-tolerant systems. Key responsibilities include defining service-level objectives, implementing observability strategies, and leading incident response for large-scale, business-critical platforms. The position requires expertise in distributed systems, cloud architecture, networking, and containerization using Docker and Kubernetes. Candidates must utilize infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform or Ansible and possess programming skills in Python, Go, Java, JavaScript, or Bash. The work focuses on solving systemic reliability risks, improving production operations, and implementing automated remediation for high-availability, customer-facing software-as-a-service platforms.

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, and observability strategies to improve alert actionability.
Provide technical leadership and coordination during complex, high-severity production incidents.
Lead capacity planning, performance analysis, 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.
Provide technical direction and mentorship to site reliability, software, and platform engineering teams.

What we're looking for

6 to 10+ years of experience.
Extensive professional experience in site reliability engineering, software engineering, cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or systems engineering.
Demonstrated 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 one or more languages such as Python, Go, Java, JavaScript, or Bash.
Experience implementing observability solutions using metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and automated alerting.
Experience with continuous integration, continuous delivery, automated testing, and modern release-management practices.
Demonstrated leadership during critical production incidents and complex technical investigations.
Strong written and verbal communication skills to explain technical risk and recommendations to stakeholders.
Bachelor’s or advanced degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or a related field (preferred).
Experience supporting enterprise-scale cloud services or high-availability customer-facing systems (preferred).
Experience defining and operating service-level objectives, error budgets, and reliability scorecards (preferred).
Knowledge of chaos engineering, resilience testing, and automated recovery techniques (preferred).
Experience with multi-region, hybrid-cloud, or multi-cloud architectures (preferred).
Familiarity with security frameworks, compliance requirements, and regulated operating environments (preferred).
Experience improving cloud cost efficiency, capacity utilization, or infrastructure performance (preferred).
Contributions to internal engineering standards, technical communities, open-source projects, or industry publications (preferred).