{"id":1026478,"url":"https://alion.io/job/oracle-principal-site-reliability-engineer-5","title":"Principal Site Reliability Engineer","company":{"id":53,"name":"Oracle","domain":"oracle.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/oracle","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Oracle","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":92,"open_postings":189,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.519,"repost_share":0.005,"time_to_fill_p50_days":4,"computed_at":"2026-09-26T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"DevOps","role_family":"DevOps","seniority":"lead","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":84900,"max":209500,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":209500},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":true,"technologies":[],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-17T18:59:49Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-17","last_verified_at":"2026-09-27T00:52:29Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":9,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":9},"description":"Designs and architects infrastructure and service to ensure reliability and functionality. Forecasts demands and responds to capacity needs. Collaborates with software development teams to develop reliable and scalable infrastructures. Exercises judgment when performing data collection to maintain and optimize operations and reliability. Leverages advanced knowledge to perform incident response and/or maintenance tasks. Provides comprehensive health and performance reporting. Identifies and recommends opportunities for automation. Communicates comprehensive information about services and proactively anticipates and articulates the potential impact of changes. Provides comprehensive support for technology and documents incidents. Conducts advanced experiments with new tools and develops and maintains advanced knowledge of site reliability trends.\n\nKey Responsibilities\nCapacity Ingestion and\nManagement:\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:normal'>-Designs\nand architects infrastructure and/or service according to terms for reliability\nand functionality.\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:normal'>-Forecasts\ndemands for infrastructure and responds to capacity needs, ensuring systems have\nsufficient resources to handle current and future workloads and identifying\nresource gaps.\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:normal'>-Collaborates\nwith the software development team to develop infrastructures, ensuring\nfeatures are reliable and scalable according to deployment requirements.\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:normal'>-Proactively\nidentifies opportunities for prototyping and drives prototyping initiatives\n(e.g., testing new applications or infrastructures, assisting in onboarding) to\nexplore novel approaches.\nIncident and Service\nLifecycle Management:\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:normal'>-Exercises\njudgment when performing data collection, triage, technical analysis, and\nredirection to maintain and optimize operations and infrastructure reliability.\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:normal'>-Takes\nproactive steps to monitor services, maintain up-to-date knowledge of their\nperformance, and document their condition.\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:normal'>-Leverages\nadvanced knowledge to perform incident response, root cause analyses, and/or\nmaintenance on assigned services (e.g., software installs, version upgrades,\nsecurity updates, backup and recovery).\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:normal'>-Provides\ncomprehensive health and performance reporting and takes appropriate actions\nbased on trends in data.\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:normal'>-May\nperform provisioning to support infrastructure, applications, and services.\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:normal'>-May\nexperiment with new approaches for and performs decommissioning (e.g., shutting\ndown servers, removing data from databases) to remove objects that are no\nlonger needed.\nAutomation:\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:normal'>-Identifies\nand recommends opportunities for automation and assesses potential benefits to\nenhance operational efficiency.\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:normal'>-Develops\nand implements design, automation tools, or scripts to provide solutions,\ngather metrics, monitor, analyze, mitigate, or remediate issues/defects within\ninfrastructures.\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:normal'>-Conducts\ntesting on moderately complex automations to ensure they perform tasks\ncorrectly and produce expected results.\nTechnical Communication and\nGuidance:\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:normal'>-Writes\nrelease notes and/or communicates comprehensive information about the scale,\ncapacity, security, performance attributes, and requirements of services and\ntechnology with customers and immediate and related teams.\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:normal'>-Proactively\nanticipates and articulates the potential impact of infrastructure, feature,\nand tool changes, considering their impact across team operations.\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:normal'>-Serves\nas a resource to team members on what information to communicate and how to\ncommunicate.\nTroubleshooting and\nResolution:\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:normal'>-Provides\ncomprehensive operational support for technology, serving as a key escalation\npoint for incidents and moderately complex issues arising within Oracle\nservices.\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:normal'>-Drives\nand actively participates in on-call shifts to address issues.\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:normal'>-Executes\nthe resolution of technical issues spanning multiple services, applying\nadvanced investigation and debugging techniques to achieve SLOs (service level\nobjectives).\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:normal'>-Documents\nincidents according to reporting methods and performs root cause analyses,\ncapturing essential information for analysis and future reference.\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:normal'>-Performs\npost-mortem procedures to prevent incident reoccurrence.\nInnovation and Improvement:\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:normal'>-Conducts\nadvanced experiments and evaluations of cutting-edge tools and technologies to\noptimize infrastructure performance and reliability, taking proactive steps to\nadhere to security standards.\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:normal'>-Identifies\nand seeks opportunities to execute improvements for performance bottlenecks and\ndeployments, ensuring efficient resource usage, speed, and scalability.\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:normal'>-Develops\nand maintains advanced knowledge of site reliability trends, sharing valuable\ninsights and information with senior team members, management, and beyond to\npromote innovative building, testing, deploying, and running services.\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:normal'>-Performs\nmoderately complex analyses and provides clear data on production to drive\nbusiness development decisions (e.g., design changes).\nCore Responsibilities\nPlanning & Execution:\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:normal'>-Manages\nand coordinates moderately complex tasks, monitoring timelines and deliverables\nto ensure timely completion and adherence to requirements for a moderately\nsized project or initiative. Efficiently delegates, monitors, and prioritizes\nwork across multiple projects, providing technical oversight and adjusting plans\nto address shifts in resources or timelines.\nCollaboration &\nPartnership:\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:normal'>-Collaborates\nacross the organization to align on expectations and achieve shared objectives.\nLeverages understanding of business leaders, stakeholders, and/or customers to\nensure proposed solutions meet their needs. Supports inclusivity by actively\nseeking and listening to diverse perspectives, ensuring others feel heard and\nrespected.\nProblem Solving:\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:normal'>-Identifies\nand addresses moderately complex issues by analyzing a wide range of data\nand/or information to identify solutions in accordance with standard practices.\nProactively escalates unresolved or critical issues with a thorough assessment\nand suggests potential solutions. Reviews, contributes to, and documents\nproblem solving strategies.\nContinuous Learning:\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:normal'>-Pursues\nlearning opportunities to expand knowledge and skills and/or tools in new areas\nand stays abreast of the latest industry trends and best practices. Proactively\nseeks and leverages ongoing feedback and training to improve skills. Coaches\nand mentors junior team members, fostering continuous learning and knowledge\nsharing within and across teams.\nContinuous Improvement:\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:normal'>-Develops\nideas, recommends updates, and/or collaborates on the implementation of process\nimprovements to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of processes,\nprotocols, and workflows across teams, and evaluates the impact on key\nstakeholders. Solicits feedback from others on ideas for alternative approaches\nand methods for continued improvement.\nPerformance and Development:\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:normal'>-Contributes\nto the talent development pipeline by participating in candidate interviews,\nassessing candidates, and providing hiring recommendations.\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:normal'>-\nDisclaimer:\nCertain 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: $84,900 to $209,500 per annum. May be eligible for bonus and equity.\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. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.\n9. 11 paid holidays\n10. Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.\n11. Paid parental leave\n12. Adoption assistance\n13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan\n14. Financial planning and group legal\n15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance\nThe role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.\nAs part of Oracle's onboarding process and consistent with applicable law, US-based employees are required to complete identity verification, which involves the collection and processing of their biometric information. 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