Senior Core Infrastructure Engineer
About The Position
As an engineer on the Strategic Customer Engineering team, this role aligns technical details across service teams, collaborates with cross-functional stakeholders, and drives complex projects from end to end. The engineer designs, coordinates, and executes technical solutions that significantly affect customer experience and scalability. The role calls for a broad technical background, knowledge of cloud technologies and trade-offs, strong written and verbal communication, and a history of leading large-scale projects. The engineer ensures cloud infrastructure solutions are designed and built for scalability, partnering with development teams to architect, design, and implement solutions in distributed computing environments that support a strong customer experience. This is a high-impact position with high expectations, requiring leadership across engineering, operations, and leadership with minimal supervision.
Requirements
- 4–8+ years of distributed cloud engineering experience in a software development environment.
- Development experience in Java, C++, or C#, as well as scripting languages.
- Experience with scripting and automation tools such as Ansible, Terraform, and/or Kubernetes.
- Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes, and orchestration tools for managing distributed systems.
- Strong Linux skills and hands-on experience with Oracle Linux/RHEL/CentOS, Ubuntu, and Debian, including system administration, package management, shell scripting, and performance optimization.
- Experience working with other cloud platform teams and accommodating their compute, networking, storage, and identity requirements.
- Solid understanding of networking concepts, security principles, and best practices.
- Excellent problem-solving skills, including troubleshooting complex issues and driving resolution in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present complex information clearly and concisely to varied audiences.
- Strong documentation skills, including experience documenting infrastructure designs, configurations, procedures, and troubleshooting steps.
- Ability to lead initiatives across engineering, operations, and leadership with minimal supervision.
Responsibilities
- Partner with customer engineering leadership and OCI engineering leadership to ensure customer success.
- Take ownership of problems and identify solutions.
- Think through proposed solutions and identify and document potential issues that may affect customers.
- Work with engineering teams to design infrastructure components, including cloud resources, distributed computing systems, and data storage solutions, to support customer workflows.
- Troubleshoot infrastructure performance, scalability, and reliability issues; implement solutions to mitigate risks and minimize downtime.
- Document infrastructure designs, configurations, and procedures to facilitate knowledge sharing and maintainability.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion.
- Short-term and long-term disability insurance.
- Life insurance and AD&D.
- Supplemental life insurance for employees, spouses, and children.
- Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts.
- Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits.
- 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match.
- Flexible or accrued vacation, depending on eligibility and position.
- 11 paid holidays.
- Paid sick leave.
- Paid parental leave.
- Adoption assistance.
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
- Financial planning and group legal benefits.
- Voluntary benefits, including auto, homeowner, and pet insurance.
- May be eligible for bonus and equity.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
