Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Database Services
Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Database Services
Posted 2 days ago
SENIORITY
Lead
About the role
- Own and improve database availability, performance, capacity, security, backup and recovery, and operational readiness.
- Lead complex production incident triage, mitigation, root-cause analysis, and preventive actions to reduce repetitive incidents.
- Define and improve operational standards, including runbooks, readiness reviews, escalation paths, SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and service-health reporting.
- Identify repetitive operational work and build automation to reduce manual toil and operational risk.
- Lead strategic reliability initiatives, including OCI migrations, Exadata modernization, Autonomous Database adoption, database performance remediation, capacity planning, and GoldenGate reliability improvements.
- Build or enhance API-driven automation, health checks, monitoring, capacity forecasting, and self-service engineering workflows.
- Apply AI-assisted engineering practices to improve incident response, knowledge discovery, runbook automation, health checks, capacity analysis, and operational reporting.
- Partner with Customer Success, Infrastructure, Application, Security, Cloud Operations, and Product Engineering teams to address cross-functional reliability risks.
- Lead technical design reviews, mentor engineers, and promote strong software engineering and SRE practices.
- Lead complex engineering initiatives independently, from architecture and planning through delivery and production readiness.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field; equivalent practical experience will be considered.
- 5+ years of experience as an Oracle DBA, Database Reliability Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, Production Engineer, or similar role supporting business-critical services.
- Experience with Git, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and automation or orchestration tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, or equivalent.
- Strong technical judgment, problem-solving ability, and stakeholder communication skills.
- Experience leading cross-functional projects involving dependencies, risks, milestones, and executive-ready status reporting.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including technical designs, runbooks, post-incident reviews, and operational updates.
- Experience with OCI, Exadata, Oracle Autonomous Database, Data Guard, GoldenGate, or large-scale cloud database services.
- Experience defining SLIs, SLOs, alerting standards, capacity models, reliability scorecards, and service-health metrics.
- Experience creating API-driven automation, internal tools, self-service workflows, or engineering platforms.
- Familiarity with AI-assisted operations, agent-based workflows, MCP/API integrations, retrieval-based knowledge systems, or data and metrics pipelines.
- Experience applying AI responsibly within security, data-access, and change-control requirements.
- Experience supporting healthcare, regulated environments, or customer-facing enterprise platforms
- 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 onlyUS: Hiring Range in USD from: $81,100 to $187,000 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:
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
- Short term disability and long term disability
- Life insurance and AD&DSupplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
- Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
- Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
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