Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Description

For a Senior Site Reliability Engineer , this environment provides hands-on ownership of business-critical production systems, complex database and infrastructure troubleshooting, patching and deployment automation, and continuous improvement of service reliability.

The Senior Site Reliability Engineer will support the reliability, scalability, performance, and operational lifecycle of Autonomous Database Serverless (ADBS) infrastructure and services. The role requires deep expertise in Oracle RAC, Exadata, OCI, database/infrastructure upgrades and patching, incident response, automation, capacity management, and production troubleshooting, including the ability to troubleshoot across the Exadata and OS layers.

Key Responsibilities

• 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.

Responsibilities

Qualifications & Skills

Mandatory

• 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.

Good-to-Have

• 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.