The Principal Site Reliability Engineer joins the team to combine strategic architecture with practical systems engineering. This role involves managing deployment, automation, patching, troubleshooting, incident response, and compliance support across Windows, Linux, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, hybrid cloud, and legacy environments. The individual will serve as a senior technical authority, establishing reliability standards and guiding complex technical decisions to reduce operational risk and manual effort. Day-to-day responsibilities include accessing deployed hosts, troubleshooting failed services, reviewing logs, correcting configurations, and validating production changes. The position requires partnering with engineering, operations, cybersecurity, networking, application, and client-facing teams. The work focuses on solving technical problems related to infrastructure stability and operational efficiency by balancing high-level architectural oversight with hands-on execution across diverse operating systems and cloud platforms.
What does a Site Reliability Engineer earn?
Median $180200 from 121 postings across 36 companies.
Site Reliability Engineering
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
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