Senior Core Infrastructure Engineer, OCI Planning & Capacity

Oracle•Nashville, TN

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is seeking a Senior Core Infrastructure Engineer to join its Infrastructure Planning and Capacity Management organization. The team builds software solutions for managing infrastructure capacity, sourcing resources, and planning for future demand. Its work includes planning and forecasting services, infrastructure sourcing workflows, process automation, data integration, and operational reporting, with a focus on improving decision quality and visibility while reducing manual effort across engineering, operations, supply chain, and finance. In this role, you will design, develop, and maintain backend services, APIs, and workflow automation supporting infrastructure planning and capacity management. You will independently deliver software components, collaborate on technical designs, and contribute to the reliability, scalability, and maintainability of production systems. You will build new capabilities and enhance existing systems using sound software engineering fundamentals and modern development practices. The work includes developing and optimizing distributed systems and large-scale data processing, implementing fault-tolerant and recovery-oriented designs, and building tests, alarms, dashboards, telemetry, and operational procedures. You will troubleshoot production issues, participate in incident response and root-cause investigations, automate infrastructure and maintenance tasks, and apply security, compliance, change-management, and documentation practices. The position is onsite five days per week in Nashville, Tennessee; relocation assistance is available and the role is not remote.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
At least 4 years of professional software development experience delivering production services or applications.
Strong programming ability in Java, Python, Go, C#, or a comparable modern language; proficiency in every listed language is not required.
Experience building backend services, APIs, or cloud-native applications, with relational and/or distributed databases.
Solid fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, testing, debugging, and system design.
Familiarity with source control, CI/CD, automated testing, monitoring, and observability.
Strong problem-solving and communication skills, with the ability to work independently and collaborate across teams.
Experience using AI-assisted development tools to improve implementation, testing, debugging, and documentation.

Nice To Haves

Experience with distributed systems, scalable backend services, and workflow-based applications.
Experience with data pipelines, ETL, streaming, and operational analytics.
Experience in capacity management, demand planning, sourcing, supply chain, or data center operations.
Experience with OCI or another major cloud platform, Kubernetes, containers, and microservices.

Responsibilities

Develop components of distributed systems that support horizontal and vertical scaling, including through distributed state management tools.
Optimize code and systems for large-scale data processing, and implement scalability requirements for assigned components.
Review team members’ implementations for scalability and use data plane platform components for large-scale data retrieval, storage, and processing.
Implement performance and load testing.
Build fault-tolerant components that support in-service updates using redundancy, replication, and automatic failover.
Apply recovery-oriented computing principles and implement retries, circuit breakers, and timeouts to address service disruptions and network unreliability.
Implement tests and alarm configurations to detect and address issues proactively.
Draft and execute runbooks and operational procedures to support recovery from failures.
Build and customize dashboards, telemetry, and alerting to monitor component health.
Design and implement feature requirements and tests within existing systems, including fault-injection and brown-out scenarios.
Implement data replication and synchronization techniques to maintain data integrity and availability.
Diagnose, debug, and resolve system component issues; implement strategies to prevent interruptions and avoid customer maintenance windows when resolving issues.
Develop automation scripts and tooling for operational troubleshooting.
Participate in operational support rotations, incident response, and root-cause investigations.
Apply security measures for multi-tenant environments, including encryption and access controls, and implement remediation plans.
Help ensure cloud infrastructure complies with relevant standards and regulations and that documentation is current.
Maintain automation scripts and tools, including Infrastructure as Code, for cloud infrastructure management.
Follow change-management plans for application patching, updates, and rollbacks.
Design, develop, and maintain backend services, APIs, and workflow automation for infrastructure planning and capacity management.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion.
Short-term and long-term disability insurance.
Life insurance and accidental death and dismemberment coverage.
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.
Paid time off, including flexible or accrued vacation depending on employee eligibility and position; vacation accrual varies by hours worked and tenure.
11 paid holidays.
72 hours of paid sick leave upon hire, refreshed annually, with unused hours carrying over up to a 112-hour cap.
Paid parental leave.
Adoption assistance.
Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
Financial planning and group legal benefits.
Voluntary auto, homeowner, and pet insurance.
The role may be eligible for a bonus and equity.