Lead Principal Site Reliability Engineer

Oracle

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Work type: On-site
Location: Vienna, VA
Salary: $96,300–$264,100 / yr
Posted: 98 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 joins the team to support a strategic customer's cloud platform and mission-critical applications. This role focuses on ensuring high availability, operational excellence, and continuous improvement of production environments. You will design and architect resilient, secure, and highly automated systems while leading incident response, capacity planning, and proactive operational improvements. Key responsibilities include developing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, creating CI/CD pipelines, and managing Kubernetes clusters and containerized workloads. You will utilize Python, Bash, and Linux administration skills to automate deployments and monitor performance using observability tools like Prometheus and Grafana. The work involves solving complex technical issues within highly regulated industries, ensuring systems meet strict Service Level Objectives while maintaining security compliance and infrastructure scalability.

Skills

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Kubernetes Docker Terraform Python Bash Linux CI/CD Prometheus Grafana ELK OpenSearch Splunk Datadog New Relic AWS Azure GCP Git Networking Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

What you'll do

Maintain high availability, reliability, and performance of enterprise applications and cloud infrastructure.
Design and implement automation using Terraform and scripting languages like Python or Bash.
Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines to support automated deployments and release management.
Monitor infrastructure using observability platforms to manage metrics, logs, traces, and alerting.
Define and maintain Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and error budgets.
Lead incident response, conduct root cause analyses, and implement corrective actions.
Perform capacity planning, performance tuning, and scalability assessments for cloud-native applications.
Provide strategic health and performance reporting to leadership and cross-functional teams.

What we're looking for

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
8+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or Systems Engineering.
10+ years of experience.
Experience supporting production environments with strict availability requirements.
Hands-on experience with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) or another major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and container orchestration platforms.
Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred).
Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Azure DevOps.

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