Principal Data Systems Engineer - SRE Automation

Salary: $114,600 - 234,600 per year Requirements:

• Be a U.S. citizen and currently hold and maintain an active Top Secret security clearance with SCI eligibility.
• Have at least 7 years of production engineering experience; distributed services or cloud platform experience is preferred.
• Have proven automation experience and strong scripting skills, such as Bash or Python.
• Understand software engineering and computer science principles.
• Have a solid foundation in Linux systems engineering.
• Understand networking, security, and storage.
• Have experience with Docker.
• Understand Infrastructure as Code concepts, with experience using Terraform and/or Ansible.
• Have experience building fully automated CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, Hudson, or TeamCity.
• Be able to define meaningful KPIs and business metrics.
• Have broad knowledge across multiple technical domains, including networking, Linux systems engineering, software engineering and automation, and distributed systems; specialization is also valued.
• Experience building, managing, or operating cloud services with a major cloud provider such as AWS, Azure, GCP, or OCI is a plus.

• Operate and support production cloud services powering customer migration and data replication workloads.
• Monitor service health, investigate incidents, and lead troubleshooting for complex production issues.
• Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and post-incident reviews, and drive corrective and preventive actions.
• Serve as the escalation point for complex or critical issues that are not yet covered by standard operating procedures.
• Work with software development teams to improve service architecture, reliability, scalability, and operational readiness.
• Design and implement automation to reduce operational overhead and improve service efficiency.
• Build and maintain observability solutions, including monitoring, alerting, logging, dashboards, and operational metrics.
• Contribute to capacity planning, performance analysis, disaster recovery readiness, and service resilience.
• Support services running across Oracle Cloud commercial and sovereign cloud environments.
• Use Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD practices to improve deployment consistency, scalability, and operational efficiency.
• Drive continuous service improvement through operational reviews, reliability initiatives, and engineering best practices.
• Develop a deep understanding of the services and technologies and help shape the teams roadmap.

• AWS
• Ansible
• Azure
• Bash
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• Docker
• GCP
• Support
• Jenkins
• Kafka
• Linux
• Oracle
• Python
• Security
• Teamcity
• Terraform

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We are Oracle, working with hackajob to connect professionals with this opportunity on our OCI GoldenGate Service Team. OCI GoldenGate is a multi-tenant, cloud-native service for real-time data integration and replication across varied IT environments, including operational and analytics data and streaming platforms such as Apache Kafka. The service is designed to support thousands of tenants and deliver high-performance, highly available data replication. In this Principal Site Reliability Engineer role, you will support the operational health and ongoing improvement of OCI GoldenGate and OCI Database Migration Service, working with development, cloud infrastructure, and customer-facing teams. Our global team has locations in the U.S., Hungary, Mexico, and Bangalore, and supports services used by enterprise customers worldwide. The role offers autonomy and opportunities to influence service architecture, operational strategy, and platform development while tackling distributed-systems challenges. U.S. hiring range is $114,600–$234,600 per year, with possible bonus, equity, and compensation deferral. Our U.S. benefits include medical, dental, and vision coverage; disability and life insurance; flexible spending accounts; commuter benefits; a 401(k) with company match; paid time off, holidays, and sick leave; parental leave and adoption assistance; an employee stock purchase plan; financial planning and group legal services; and voluntary insurance options. Flexible work arrangements are also offered. Certain U.S.-based or customer-facing roles may be subject to applicable health or drug-testing requirements. U.S.-based employees complete identity verification during onboarding, which involves processing biometric information; accommodations may be considered after an individualized assessment.

last updated 41 week of 2026