Senior Core Infrastructure Engineer

Oracle

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Work type: On-site
Location: Nashville, TN
Salary: $79,200–$209,500 / yr
Posted: 73 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live today
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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The Senior Core Infrastructure Engineer joins the OCI Networking team to rearchitect the routing foundation for next-generation networking services. This role involves developing core infrastructure for the data plane, addressing complex challenges in routing, workload placement, and fleet management at cloud scale. You will design and implement scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems, utilizing redundancy, replication, and automatic failover mechanisms. Daily responsibilities include optimizing code for large-scale data processing, building telemetry systems, and performing fault-injection testing. You will also manage automation scripts using Infrastructure as Code, handle operational troubleshooting, and ensure multi-tenant security through encryption and access controls. The position requires expertise in distributed systems, networking fundamentals, OCI, prototype development, and test automation to maintain high availability and data integrity across the global cloud networking platform.

Skills

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Distributed Systems Networking Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Data Plane Test Automation Circuit Breakers Telemetry Load Testing fault-injection Scalability

What you'll do

Develop and optimize distributed systems components that support horizontal and vertical scaling using distributed state management tools.
Build fault-tolerant infrastructure by implementing redundancy, replication, automatic failover, and circuit breakers to handle network unreliability.
Create custom dashboards, telemetry systems, and alerting mechanisms to monitor component health and proactively detect failures.
Design and execute test scenarios, including fault-injection and brown-out tests, to ensure system correctness and data integrity.
Diagnose and resolve complex operational issues while developing automation scripts and tools for troubleshooting.
Implement advanced security measures such as encryption and access controls to protect multi-tenant cloud environments.
Maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and other automation tools to manage cloud infrastructure updates and deployments.

What we're looking for

Applicants must be able to read, write, and speak English.
Candidates must have 3 to 5+ years of experience.
Proficiency in distributed systems is required.
Strong knowledge of networking fundamentals is required.
Experience with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is required.
Skills in prototype development are required.
Expertise in test automation is required.

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