Principal Site Reliability Engineer

Oracle

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Work type
On-site
Location
Nashville, TN
Salary
$84,900–$209,500 / yr
Posted
3 days ago
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TL;DR · Principal Site Reliability Engineer

The Principal Site Reliability Engineer joins the Core Platform Operations team to manage, maintain, and enhance physical and virtual Linux servers across production and nonproduction environments. This individual contributor role involves performing deep technical troubleshooting, performance tuning, capacity planning, and security patching to ensure the reliability of healthcare applications. You will build reusable automation, improve monitoring metrics, and manage complex incidents while mentoring colleagues and guiding engineering decisions. The role requires proficiency with Linux internals, TCP/IP, DNS, and HTTP/S, alongside scripting skills in Bash, Python, and Ansible. You will solve operational problems by analyzing CPU, memory, and network behavior to support middleware dependencies like WebSphere and Distributed File Systems, ultimately ensuring stable infrastructure for critical healthcare services through methodical root cause analysis and proactive system hardening.

What does a Site Reliability Engineer earn?

Median $187000 from 123 postings across 33 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Engineer and maintain physical and virtual Linux servers across production and nonproduction environments.
  • Analyze system performance to identify bottlenecks and tune CPU, memory, storage, and network behavior.
  • Resolve complex incidents by diagnosing issues across operating systems, applications, networking, and storage.
  • Perform root cause analysis and translate findings into corrective actions, runbooks, and engineering improvements.
  • Automate repeatable tasks using Bash, Python, or Ansible for configuration, maintenance, and recovery.
  • Apply security patches, remediate vulnerabilities, and maintain compliance with security standards.
  • Plan and execute production changes while assessing risks and preparing rollback procedures.
  • Participate in on-call rotations and provide escalation support for assigned services.

What we're looking for

  • Applicants must be able to read, write, and speak English.
  • 6 to 10+ years of experience is required.
  • Extensive hands-on experience is required in administering and troubleshooting Linux systems in production, including physical and virtual server environments.
  • Strong knowledge of Linux internals, system services, processes, permissions, filesystems, logs, and resource utilization is required.
  • Practical scripting and automation experience with Bash, Python, Ansible, or comparable tools is required.
  • Working knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/S, ports, certificates, and connectivity troubleshooting is required.
  • Experience with security patching, vulnerability remediation, secure configuration, access controls, and production change management is required.
  • Experience supporting Oracle Health, Millennium, Cerner applications, or other healthcare or regulated production environments (preferred).

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