Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Oracle · Posted Oct 27
Cloud infrastructure, enterprise software, database systems, and AI-powered business applications
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About the role
The role sits within Oracle's Autonomous Database Serverless (ADBS) organization, supporting business-critical production systems and infrastructure. The team focuses on reliability, scalability, performance, and operational lifecycle management across Oracle RAC, Exadata, and OCI environments. This Senior Site Reliability Engineer will own production troubleshooting, patching and deployment automation, capacity management, and continuous service reliability improvements.
What you will do
- Design, operate, and continuously improve highly reliable and scalable infrastructure supporting Autonomous Database Serverless (ADBS).
- Administer and optimize high-availability Oracle database environments using Oracle RAC and ASM, with responsibility for service health, performance, capacity, and operational reliability.
- Execute end-to-end Exadata lifecycle management, including infrastructure upgrades, storage expansion, quarterly patching/QFSDP activities, and related maintenance across Exadata generations.
- Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve production issues across Exadata hardware, database, network, and OS layers, including incident response, root cause analysis, and post-mortem activities.
- Use Exadata capabilities and database performance techniques, including SQL tuning, Smart Scans, Storage Indexes, and Hybrid Columnar Compression (HCC), to improve performance and resource efficiency.
- Develop and maintain automation using Shell scripting, Python, or Ansible for infrastructure provisioning, database operations, monitoring, remediation, and recurring maintenance.
- Partner with software development and cross-functional teams to assess infrastructure changes, capacity requirements, deployments, reliability risks, and operational impact.
- Participate in on-call operations, health/performance reporting, technical analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives aligned to service reliability and SLOs.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Strong hands-on experience with Oracle RAC and ASM in production environments.
- Hands-on experience managing and optimizing Oracle databases on Exadata physical infrastructure.
- Proven experience with Exadata infrastructure upgrades and patching, including end-to-end lifecycle activities across multiple Exadata generations.
- Practical experience with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI); exact OCI services to be confirmed.
- Ability to troubleshoot issues across the Exadata and operating-system layers.
- Experience with production incident response, technical troubleshooting, RCA, post-mortems, and on-call support.
- Experience with capacity, health, and performance management for database/infrastructure services.
- Experience developing operational automation using Shell scripting, Python, or Ansible.
- Experience with Oracle database performance tuning, including SQL tuning and Exadata-engineered features such as Smart Scans, Storage Indexes, and HCC.
- Experience supporting highly available database/infrastructure environments and working with software/development teams.
Preferred qualifications
- Direct experience supporting Autonomous Database Serverless (ADBS).
- Experience across the stated Oracle database versions: 9i, 10g, 11gR1/R2, 12c, 18c, and 19c.
- Experience with Exadata Cloud Service (ExaCS).
- Experience using CellCLI, DCLI, and Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) Cloud Control.
- Experience troubleshooting and monitoring Exadata storage cells, compute nodes, and InfiniBand/RDMA networking.
- Experience with DevOps practices and tooling beyond the scripting/automation requirements.
- Experience prototyping or onboarding new infrastructure, applications, or operational tooling.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Oracle
Oracle Corporation is a multinational computer technology company specializing in cloud-engineered hardware, enterprise software, and database management systems. It provides comprehensive cloud solutions such as Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Oracle Cloud Applications (OCA) to power digital transformations globally. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Oracle is a major player in enterprise AI integration and database solutions.
- Industry
- Cloud Computing
- Company size
- 141000 employees
- Founded
- 1977
- Location
- Austin, Texas, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $56B raised
- 2025-10-24Post IPO Debt$18B
- 2025-02-03Conventional Debt$18B
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Lawrence J. Ellison
Chairman of the Board and Chief Technology Officer
Clay Magouyrk
Chief Executive Officer
Mike Sicilia
Chief Executive Officer
Hilary Maxson
Chief Financial Officer
Jae Evans
Global Chief Information Officer and Executive Vice President
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