Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Oracle

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Work type: On-site
Location: —
Salary: $81,100–$187,000 / yr
Posted: 70 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday

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Below market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $181k

This role $134k

$64k most similar roles pay here $242k

This role pays less than 88% of similar roles. Most pay $146,250–$215,000 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $134k versus about $181k for comparable roles.

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TL;DR · Senior Site Reliability Engineer

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The Senior Site Reliability Engineer joins the OCI Incident Response team to serve as a first line of defense in maintaining high availability for Oracle’s cloud services. This role involves detecting, triaging, and mitigating service-impacting events while managing large-scale incidents to minimize customer impact. You will solve complex infrastructure problems, automate common tasks to ensure continuous availability, and coordinate with subject matter experts during critical outages. The position requires expertise in cloud computing design patterns, infrastructure automation tools like Chef, Ansible, Jenkins, and Terraform, as well as experience with Docker, RESTful APIs, and log analysis. Candidates must be proficient in at least one modern object-oriented programming language and follow agile methodologies. You will also define technical architectures for distributed systems and partner with development teams to improve the overall reliability of the cloud portfolio.

What does a Site Reliability Engineer earn?

Median $187850 from 127 postings across 37 companies.

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Skills

OCI AWS Azure GCP Terraform Chef Ansible Jenkins Docker CI/CD RESTful APIs Infrastructure-as-a-Service Log Analysis Source Control Management Agile

What you'll do

Detect, triage, and mitigate OCI service-impacting events to minimize customer downtime.
Coordinate subject matter experts and service leaders during major incidents to restore services quickly.
Automate common tasks and incident management processes to ensure continuous availability with minimal human intervention.
Monitor infrastructure dashboards and take immediate action to address identified anomalies.
Document incident data to improve processes, identify deviations, and build a knowledge base.
Design and deliver the mission-critical stack focusing on security, resiliency, scalability, and performance.
Define technical architecture for large-scale distributed systems and partner with developers on product roadmaps.
Serve as the ultimate escalation point for complex issues that lack established standard operating procedures.

What we're looking for

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or relevant work experience.
3+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or System Engineering.
Experience with public cloud operations such as AWS, Azure, GCP, or OCI.
Extensive experience with Major Incident Management in a cloud-based environment.
Demonstrated understanding of automation and orchestration principles.
Experience with at least one modern object-oriented programming language.
Experience with software engineering standards including Agile, code reviews, source control, and CI/CD.
Familiarity with infrastructure tools like Chef, Ansible, Jenkins, or Terraform; expertise in IaaS, Docker, RESTful APIs, and log analysis.

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