Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Database Services
About The Position
Oracle Health Database Services is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to lead database reliability engineering across mission-critical healthcare platforms. This individual-contributor role combines Oracle Database expertise, cloud engineering, automation, AI-assisted operations, and technical project leadership. The engineer will deliver measurable improvements in reliability, scalability, performance, operational readiness, and customer experience across database platforms, helping transform traditional database operations into proactive, automated, engineering-led reliability practices. The role involves hands-on and strategic leadership of complex engineering initiatives, from architecture and planning through delivery and production readiness. The engineer will improve database services and operational standards, develop automation and self-service workflows, and collaborate across technical and customer-facing teams. The role is not eligible for sponsorship.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- At least 5 years of experience as an Oracle DBA, Database Reliability Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, Production Engineer, or in a similar role supporting business-critical services.
- Experience with Git, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and automation or orchestration tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, or equivalent.
- Strong technical judgment, problem-solving ability, and stakeholder communication skills.
- Experience leading cross-functional projects involving dependencies, risks, milestones, and executive-ready status reporting.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including technical designs, runbooks, post-incident reviews, and operational updates.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with OCI, Exadata, Oracle Autonomous Database, Data Guard, GoldenGate, or large-scale cloud database services.
- Experience defining SLIs, SLOs, alerting standards, capacity models, reliability scorecards, and service-health metrics.
- Experience creating API-driven automation, internal tools, self-service workflows, or engineering platforms.
- Familiarity with AI-assisted operations, agent-based workflows, MCP/API integrations, retrieval-based knowledge systems, or data and metrics pipelines.
- Experience applying AI responsibly within security, data-access, and change-control requirements.
- Experience supporting healthcare, regulated environments, or customer-facing enterprise platforms.
- Skills in Oracle Database engineering and administration; Oracle Grid Infrastructure, ASM, RAC, and Data Guard; Oracle Exadata, ExaCC, ExaCS, and OCI; Oracle GoldenGate and RMAN backup and recovery; database performance tuning, capacity management, and optimization; SRE, observability, and incident management; Python, SQL/PLSQL, Perl, and Unix shell scripting; DevOps, GitHub, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible); and AI/ML, LLMs, RAG, and AI-driven automation.
Responsibilities
- Own and improve database availability, performance, capacity, security, backup and recovery, and operational readiness.
- Lead complex production incident triage, mitigation, root-cause analysis, and preventive actions to reduce repetitive incidents.
- Define and improve operational standards, including runbooks, readiness reviews, escalation paths, SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and service-health reporting.
- Identify repetitive operational work and build automation to reduce manual toil and operational risk.
- Lead strategic reliability initiatives, including OCI migrations, Exadata modernization, Autonomous Database adoption, database performance remediation, capacity planning, and GoldenGate reliability improvements.
- Build or enhance API-driven automation, health checks, monitoring, capacity forecasting, and self-service engineering workflows.
- Apply AI-assisted engineering practices to improve incident response, knowledge discovery, runbook automation, health checks, capacity analysis, and operational reporting.
- Partner with Customer Success, Infrastructure, Application, Security, Cloud Operations, and Product Engineering teams to address cross-functional reliability risks.
- Lead technical design reviews, mentor engineers, and promote strong software engineering and SRE practices.
- Lead complex engineering initiatives independently, from architecture and planning through delivery and production readiness.
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 Vacation for eligible salaried employees or accrued vacation for other eligible employees.
- 11 paid holidays.
- Paid sick leave: 72 hours upon hire, refreshed annually, with unused balance carrying over up to a maximum of 112 hours.
- 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 bonus and equity.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
