Principal Site Reliability Engineer

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.

Key Responsibilities

Capacity Ingestion and

Management:

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and architects infrastructure and/or service according to terms for reliability

and functionality.

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demands for infrastructure and responds to capacity needs, ensuring systems have

sufficient resources to handle current and future workloads and identifying

resource gaps.

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with the software development team to develop infrastructures, ensuring

features are reliable and scalable according to deployment requirements.

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identifies opportunities for prototyping and drives prototyping initiatives

(e.g., testing new applications or infrastructures, assisting in onboarding) to

explore novel approaches.

Incident and Service

Lifecycle Management:

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judgment when performing data collection, triage, technical analysis, and

redirection to maintain and optimize operations and infrastructure reliability.

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proactive steps to monitor services, maintain up-to-date knowledge of their

performance, and document their condition.

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advanced knowledge to perform incident response, root cause analyses, and/or

maintenance on assigned services (e.g., software installs, version upgrades,

security updates, backup and recovery).

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comprehensive health and performance reporting and takes appropriate actions

based on trends in data.

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perform provisioning to support infrastructure, applications, and services.

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experiment with new approaches for and performs decommissioning (e.g., shutting

down servers, removing data from databases) to remove objects that are no

longer needed.

Automation:

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and recommends opportunities for automation and assesses potential benefits to

enhance operational efficiency.

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and implements design, automation tools, or scripts to provide solutions,

gather metrics, monitor, analyze, mitigate, or remediate issues/defects within

infrastructures.

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testing on moderately complex automations to ensure they perform tasks

correctly and produce expected results.

Technical Communication and

Guidance:

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release notes and/or communicates comprehensive information about the scale,

capacity, security, performance attributes, and requirements of services and

technology with customers and immediate and related teams.

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anticipates and articulates the potential impact of infrastructure, feature,

and tool changes, considering their impact across team operations.

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as a resource to team members on what information to communicate and how to

communicate.

Troubleshooting and

Resolution:

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comprehensive operational support for technology, serving as a key escalation

point for incidents and moderately complex issues arising within Oracle

services.

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and actively participates in on-call shifts to address issues.

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the resolution of technical issues spanning multiple services, applying

advanced investigation and debugging techniques to achieve SLOs (service level

objectives).

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incidents according to reporting methods and performs root cause analyses,

capturing essential information for analysis and future reference.

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post-mortem procedures to prevent incident reoccurrence.

Innovation and Improvement:

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advanced experiments and evaluations of cutting-edge tools and technologies to

optimize infrastructure performance and reliability, taking proactive steps to

adhere to security standards.

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and seeks opportunities to execute improvements for performance bottlenecks and

deployments, ensuring efficient resource usage, speed, and scalability.

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and maintains advanced knowledge of site reliability trends, sharing valuable

insights and information with senior team members, management, and beyond to

promote innovative building, testing, deploying, and running services.

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moderately complex analyses and provides clear data on production to drive

business development decisions (e.g., design changes).

Core Responsibilities

Planning & Execution:

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and coordinates moderately complex tasks, monitoring timelines and deliverables

to ensure timely completion and adherence to requirements for a moderately

sized project or initiative. Efficiently delegates, monitors, and prioritizes

work across multiple projects, providing technical oversight and adjusting plans

to address shifts in resources or timelines.

Collaboration &

Partnership:

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across the organization to align on expectations and achieve shared objectives.

Leverages understanding of business leaders, stakeholders, and/or customers to

ensure proposed solutions meet their needs. Supports inclusivity by actively

seeking and listening to diverse perspectives, ensuring others feel heard and

respected.

Problem Solving:

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and addresses moderately complex issues by analyzing a wide range of data

and/or information to identify solutions in accordance with standard practices.

Proactively escalates unresolved or critical issues with a thorough assessment

and suggests potential solutions. Reviews, contributes to, and documents

problem solving strategies.

Continuous Learning:

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learning opportunities to expand knowledge and skills and/or tools in new areas

and stays abreast of the latest industry trends and best practices. Proactively

seeks and leverages ongoing feedback and training to improve skills. Coaches

and mentors junior team members, fostering continuous learning and knowledge

sharing within and across teams.

Continuous Improvement:

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ideas, recommends updates, and/or collaborates on the implementation of process

improvements to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of processes,

protocols, and workflows across teams, and evaluates the impact on key

stakeholders. Solicits feedback from others on ideas for alternative approaches

and methods for continued improvement.

Performance and Development:

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to the talent development pipeline by participating in candidate interviews,

assessing candidates, and providing hiring recommendations.

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Disclaimer:

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.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $84,900 to $209,500 per annum. May be eligible for bonus and equity.

Oracle 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.

Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:

1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion

2. Short term disability and long term disability

3. Life insurance and AD&D

4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)

5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts

6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits

7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match

8. 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.

9. 11 paid holidays

10. 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.

11. Paid parental leave

12. Adoption assistance

13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan

14. Financial planning and group legal

15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.

As 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. Accommodations to this requirement may be granted following an individualized assessment.