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Takes full ownership of forecasting of demands and responding to capacity needs. Owns collaborations with software development teams to develop reliable and scalable infrastructures. Recommends methods for performing data collection to maintain and optimize operations and reliability. Oversees incident response and/or maintenance tasks. Provides strategic, future-oriented health and performance reporting. Contributes to strategies for automation and reviews the development and implementation of automation. Provides expert-level communication about services and anticipates, analyzes, and explains the impact of changes, considering strategic goals. Serves as a role model in providing support for technology and reviews documentation for accuracy. Leads the implementation of innovative tools and provides expertise in site reliability trends. Key Responsibilities\nReliability Strategy and Technical Leadership\nDefine and drive the site reliability engineering strategy for large-scale, distributed, and business-critical platforms. \nEstablish reliability standards, engineering practices, and operational readiness requirements across multiple teams. \nServe as a senior technical authority for system reliability, scalability, resilience, performance, and production operations. \nInfluence architecture and design decisions to ensure systems are supportable, observable, fault tolerant, and capable of meeting availability objectives. \nIdentify systemic reliability risks and lead cross-functional initiatives to address them. \nProvide technical direction and mentorship to site reliability engineers, software engineers, platform engineers, and operations teams. \nLead technical reviews and promote consistent engineering practices across the organization. \nService Reliability and Observability\nDefine and implement service-level indicators, service-level objectives, error budgets, and operational health metrics. \nDevelop comprehensive monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting, and observability strategies. \nImprove the quality and actionability of alerts while reducing unnecessary operational noise. \nEstablish dashboards and reporting mechanisms that clearly communicate service health, performance, capacity, and risk. \nUse production data and reliability trends to prioritize engineering investments and continuous-improvement initiatives. \nAutomation and Platform Engineering\nDesign and implement automation that reduces manual intervention, operational toil, and human error. \nBuild or enhance tools for deployment, configuration management, infrastructure provisioning, incident response, and service recovery. \nPromote infrastructure-as-code, policy-as-code, automated testing, and repeatable deployment practices. \nPartner with development teams to improve continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines. \nDevelop self-healing and automated remediation capabilities where appropriate. \nContribute production-quality software and reusable platform components using modern programming and scripting languages. \nIncident Management and Problem Resolution\nProvide technical leadership during complex, high-severity production incidents. \nCoordinate diagnosis, containment, recovery, and stakeholder communication during service disruptions. \nLead blameless post-incident reviews and ensure that corrective actions address root causes rather than symptoms. \nIdentify recurring failure patterns and develop long-term engineering solutions. \nImprove incident-management processes, escalation procedures, runbooks, and recovery playbooks. \nParticipate in an on-call rotation or provide senior escalation support for critical services, as required. \nCapacity, Performance, and Resilience\nLead capacity planning, performance analysis, load testing, and demand forecasting for critical platforms. \nIdentify performance bottlenecks and recommend architectural or operational improvements. \nDesign and validate high-availability, disaster-recovery, backup, and business-continuity capabilities. \nLead resilience testing, failure-mode analysis, game days, and controlled fault-injection exercises. \nEnsure recovery-time and recovery-point objectives are defined, tested, and achievable. \nSecurity and Operational Governance\nPartner with security and compliance teams to embed security into infrastructure, automation, and operational practices. \nSupport vulnerability remediation, access-control improvements, audit readiness, and secure configuration management. \nEnsure production environments meet organizational standards for change management, data protection, and operational governance. \nBalance reliability, security, delivery speed, cost, and business priorities when recommending technical solutions. \nRequired Qualifications\nExtensive professional experience in site reliability engineering, software engineering, cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, systems engineering, or a related technical discipline. \nDemonstrated experience designing, operating, and improving highly available production systems at significant scale. \nDeep knowledge of distributed systems, cloud architecture, networking, operating systems, storage, databases, and service dependencies. \nAdvanced experience with at least one major cloud platform, such as Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform. \nStrong experience with containerization and orchestration technologies, including Docker and Kubernetes. \nProven expertise with infrastructure-as-code and configuration-management technologies such as Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, or equivalent tools. \nExperience implementing observability solutions using metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and automated alerting. \nStrong programming or scripting skills in one or more languages such as Python, Go, Java, JavaScript, Bash, or similar. \nExperience with continuous integration, continuous delivery, automated testing, and modern release-management practices. \nDemonstrated leadership during critical production incidents and complex technical investigations. \nAbility to diagnose difficult system issues across applications, infrastructure, networks, databases, and cloud services. \nStrong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical risk and recommendations to engineering leaders and business stakeholders. \nProven ability to lead cross-functional technical initiatives without relying solely on formal authority. \nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience supporting enterprise-scale cloud services, software-as-a-service platforms, or other high-availability customer-facing systems. \nExperience defining and operating service-level objectives, error budgets, and reliability scorecards. \nKnowledge of chaos engineering, resilience testing, and automated recovery techniques. \nExperience with multi-region, hybrid-cloud, or multi-cloud architectures. \nFamiliarity with security frameworks, compliance requirements, and regulated operating environments. \nExperience improving cloud cost efficiency, capacity utilization, or infrastructure performance. \nContributions to internal engineering standards, technical communities, open-source projects, or industry publications. \nBachelor’s or advanced degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. \nDisclaimer:Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.\nRange and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only\nUS: Hiring Range in USD from: $96,300 to $264,100 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.\nOracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.\nCandidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.\nOracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:\n1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion\n2. Short term disability and long term disability\n3. Life insurance and AD&D\n4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)\n5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts\n6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits\n7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match\n8. Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. 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