Oracle

Principal Data Systems Software Engineer - SRE - Top Secret Clearance Required

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15 hours ago
Herndon, VA, USAStaff+
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Base Salary

$115k - $235k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Operate and support production cloud services powering customer migration and data replication workloads.
  • Monitor service health, investigate incidents, lead troubleshooting, and perform root cause analysis and post-incident reviews.
  • Serve as the escalation point for complex or critical production issues.
  • Partner with software development teams to improve architecture, reliability, scalability, and operational readiness.
  • Design and implement automation to reduce operational overhead and improve service efficiency.
  • Build and maintain monitoring, alerting, logging, dashboards, and operational metrics.
  • Contribute to capacity planning, performance analysis, disaster recovery, and service resilience initiatives.
  • Use Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD practices to improve deployment consistency and operational efficiency.
  • Drive continuous service improvement through operational reviews and reliability initiatives.

Requirements

  • US citizenship and an active Top Secret security clearance with SCI eligibility are required.
  • At least 7 years of production engineering experience, preferably with distributed services or cloud platforms.
  • Proven automation experience and strong scripting skills in Bash, Python, or a similar language.
  • Solid understanding of software engineering and computer science principles.
  • Strong foundation in Linux systems engineering, networking, security, and storage.
  • Experience with Docker, Terraform and/or Ansible, and fully automated CI/CD pipelines.
  • Ability to define meaningful KPIs and business metrics.
  • Experience operating cloud services on AWS, Azure, GPC, or OCI is preferred.

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits, and flexible work arrangements.
  • Medical, dental, vision, disability, life, and supplemental insurance options.
  • 401(k) plan with company match, employee stock purchase plan, and financial planning resources.
  • Paid vacation, 11 paid holidays, paid sick leave, and paid parental leave.
  • Adoption assistance, flexible spending accounts, commuter and parking benefits, and voluntary insurance programs.
  • Opportunities for technical leadership, career growth, and work on globally scaled cloud services.

Tech Stack

AnsibleApache KafkaAWSAzureBashDockerJenkinsLinuxOracle CloudPythonTeamCityTerraform

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10,000+ employees

Oracle builds database technology, enterprise applications, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for companies and governments. Its business spans cloud subscriptions, software licenses, and support services across ERP, HCM, CX, and industry suites, plus NetSuite. Founded in 1977 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, Oracle is a public company traded on the NYSE and serves global customers migrating and running critical workloads in its cloud.

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