Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer

Oracle

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Work type: On-site
Location: Nashville, TN
Salary: $114,600–$234,600 / yr
Posted: 20 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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TL;DR · Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer

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Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer- Nashville,TN joins the Network Automation Team to lead the development and architectural evolution of scalable, elastic distributed systems. This role focuses on building fault-tolerant components that support high-throughput, hyper-scale workloads while ensuring reliability through redundancy, replication, and automated failover. The engineer will manage data-plane platforms for large-scale retrieval and processing, implement load-shedding and rate-limiting to handle network unreliability, and establish telemetry pipelines with proactive dashboards and alerts. Key responsibilities include designing complex validation scenarios like fault injection, managing security controls for multi-tenant environments, and developing infrastructure-as-code to automate patching and rollbacks. The role requires expertise in distributed state-management tools and the ability to resolve production issues while mentoring peers. The work centers on solving challenges related to cloud service reliability, scalability, and data integrity within a complex network environment.

Skills

Distributed Systems infrastructure-as-code (IaC Data Plane Rate Limiting Fault Injection Telemetry Alerting Security Controls Encryption Access Control Automation

What you'll do

Architect and develop scalable, elastic distributed system components for high-throughput, hyper-scale workloads.
Design fault-tolerant systems using redundancy, replication, failover, and rate-limiting to ensure reliability during network instability.
Establish KPIs and build proactive monitoring dashboards, telemetry pipelines, and alerting mechanisms.
Execute complex validation testing including fault injection and brownout scenarios to ensure system correctness.
Proactively diagnose and resolve production issues while mentoring peers on troubleshooting practices.
Implement security controls, encryption, and access management for multi-tenant environments.
Develop infrastructure-as-code (IaC) and automation tools to manage cloud infrastructure and deployment cycles.

What we're looking for

Applicants must be able to read, write, and speak English.
Candidates must have 6 to 10+ years of experience in the field.
Experience is required in designing and architecting scalable, elastic distributed systems for high-throughput workloads.
Proficiency in developing infrastructure-as-code (IaC) and automation tools is required.
Experience is required in implementing security controls, encryption, and access controls for multi-tenant environments.
Candidates must be able to design fault-tolerant systems using redundancy, replication, and failover mechanisms.
Experience is required in establishing telemetry, KPIs, and proactive monitoring dashboards.
Ability to mentor peers and provide technical leadership during incident response is required.

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