Lead Principal Site Reliability Engineer

Oracle

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Work type: On-site
Location: Vienna, VA
Salary: $96,300–$264,100 / yr
Posted: 53 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live 2 days ago
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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TL;DR · Lead Principal Site Reliability Engineer

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Lead Principal Site Reliability Engineer serves as a technical leader and individual contributor focused on ensuring high availability and operational excellence for mission-critical applications within a cloud platform. The role involves designing and architecting infrastructure, managing capacity planning, overseeing incident response, and implementing automated solutions to reduce manual toil. You will build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, develop Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, and create automation scripts utilizing Python, Bash, or PowerShell. Key technical requirements include experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Linux administration, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. The position requires expertise in observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and Splunk to monitor metrics, logs, and traces. You will solve complex problems regarding scalability and performance while ensuring systems meet strict reliability standards within highly regulated environments, ultimately improving the resilience of critical business services through proactive engineering and robust infrastructure management.

Skills

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Kubernetes Terraform Python Bash Docker CI/CD Linux Administration Prometheus Grafana OpenSearch Splunk Datadog New Relic Infrastructure as Code Site Reliability Engineering Incident Management Root Cause Analysis Capacity Planning

What you'll do

Maintain high availability, reliability, and performance for enterprise applications and cloud infrastructure.
Design and implement automation to reduce manual operational effort and ensure deployment consistency.
Develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and scripts in Python or Bash.
Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines to support automated deployments and release management.
Monitor systems using observability platforms including metrics, logs, traces, and alerting.
Define and manage 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.

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.
Experience supporting production environments with strict availability requirements.
Hands-on experience with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) or other major cloud providers like 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.
Strong scripting skills in Python, Bash, or PowerShell and experience with Linux system administration.

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