Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Database Services

Oracle

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$81,100–$187,000 / yr
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TL;DR · Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Database Services

The Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Database Services joins the Oracle Health Database Services team to lead database reliability engineering across mission-critical healthcare platforms. This individual-contributor role focuses on improving availability, performance, and scalability while transforming traditional database operations into proactive, automated, engineering-led practices. You will manage production incident triage, root-cause analysis, and capacity planning while building API-driven automation, health checks, and self-service workflows. The role requires expertise in Oracle Database, OCI, Exadata, and GoldenGate. Key technologies include Git, CI/CD, Terraform, Ansible, Python, SQL/PLSQL, and Unix Shell Scripting. You will also apply AI-assisted engineering practices for incident response and knowledge discovery. This position solves complex reliability risks within regulated healthcare environments by establishing operational standards like SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.

What does a Site Reliability Engineer earn?

Median $187000 from 123 postings across 33 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Own and improve database availability, performance, capacity, security, backup, and recovery.
  • Lead complex production incident triage, mitigation, root-cause analysis, and preventive actions.
  • Define operational standards including runbooks, SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and service-health reporting.
  • Build automation for repetitive operational work, health checks, and self-service engineering workflows.
  • Lead strategic reliability initiatives including OCI migrations, Exadata modernization, and Autonomous Database adoption.
  • Apply AI-assisted engineering practices to improve incident response, knowledge discovery, and capacity analysis.
  • Lead technical design reviews and independently manage complex engineering initiatives from architecture to delivery.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field; equivalent practical experience will be considered.
  • 5+ years of experience as an Oracle DBA, Database Reliability Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, Production Engineer, or similar role.
  • Experience with Git, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and automation tools like Terraform, Ansible, or Jenkins.
  • Experience leading cross-functional projects involving dependencies, risks, milestones, and executive-ready status reporting.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills for technical designs, runbooks, and post-incident reviews.
  • Experience with OCI, Exadata, Oracle Autonomous Database, Data Guard, or GoldenGate (preferred).
  • Experience defining SLIs, SLOs, alerting standards, capacity models, and reliability scorecards (preferred).
  • Experience with AI-assisted operations, agent-based workflows, or data and metrics pipelines (preferred).

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