Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Oracle Heath

Oracle•United States,

1d•$81,100 - $187,000

About The Position

Oracle Health is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to build and operate reliable, scalable cloud-native platforms and services that support its next-generation healthcare technology initiatives. The role spans platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, integration services, healthcare applications, and operational tooling. The engineer will work across software engineering and operations to design systems for reliability, develop automation, improve monitoring and alerting, support incident response and root cause analysis, and contribute to secure, scalable services running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. The role collaborates with software engineering, product, security, operations, and customer-facing teams to improve service health and support modernization across healthcare workflows, interoperability, data platforms, and AI-driven capabilities. The position participates in on-call rotations and production operational support. The stated U.S. hiring range is $81,100 to $187,000 per annum, with possible bonus and equity eligibility. Oracle offers a comprehensive benefits package, subject to eligibility and role-specific terms.

Requirements

Knowledge of Linux and networking, including processes, filesystems, systemd, DNS, TCP/IP, TLS, HTTP, load balancers, proxies, and basic database behavior.
Kubernetes operations experience, including Deployments, Services/Ingress, ConfigMaps/Secrets, RBAC, resource requests and limits, probes, autoscaling, persistent storage, Helm/Kustomize, container troubleshooting, and kubectl troubleshooting.
Cloud and infrastructure-as-code experience with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure or another cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure), including IAM, networks, compute, managed Kubernetes, Terraform, and configuration automation such as Ansible.
Delivery engineering experience with Git, GitHub, container images and registries, CI/CD, and safe release practices such as canary and blue-green deployments, rollback strategies, and operational readiness.
Experience with observability and reliability practices, including metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, alerts, SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, KPIs, incident response, on-call support, runbooks, postmortems, capacity planning, and performance tuning.
Strong Bash/Shell scripting and Python experience, with a focus on reducing recurring toil through code, scripting, and repeatable automation.
Knowledge of security and recovery practices, including least-privilege access, secrets handling, image and dependency hygiene, patching, vulnerability remediation, backup and restore, and disaster-recovery testing.
Collaboration and communication skills, including calm incident communication, clear root-cause analysis, collaboration with developers, technical communication, knowledge sharing, and influencing systems toward simpler, safer operations.

Nice To Haves

GitOps experience is desirable.
PowerShell and Go experience are useful differentiators.
Healthcare and data systems experience is strongly preferred, including SQL, healthcare technology operations, healthcare interoperability, or familiarity with FHIR, HL7, or large-scale healthcare data platforms.

Responsibilities

Design, build, test, and operate reliable cloud infrastructure, platform capabilities, and services on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and legacy deployment models.
Partner with software engineering teams to develop scalable, resilient services, APIs, integrations, and distributed systems.
Forecast capacity needs, analyze service trends, and proactively ensure systems can support current and future workloads.
Monitor service health, availability, latency, performance, and capacity using observability and reporting tools.
Define and maintain SLIs, SLOs, KPIs, dashboards, alerts, and runbooks for production services.
Improve service resilience through backup and restore validation, disaster recovery planning, secrets handling, patching, and least-privilege access practices.
Participate in incident response, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, postmortems, and follow-up remediation.
Develop automation, scripts, and tooling for provisioning, deployment, monitoring, metrics collection, mitigation, and remediation.
Support safe release practices, including CI/CD, infrastructure automation, canary or blue-green deployments, rollback planning, and operational readiness reviews.
Investigate and debug issues across applications, infrastructure, services, and dependencies to help teams meet service level objectives.
Identify performance bottlenecks and reliability risks, then recommend and implement improvements.
Collaborate with product managers, architects, engineers, security, operations, and customer teams to deliver secure, customer-focused healthcare solutions.
Support modernization involving cloud-native architectures, healthcare interoperability, large-scale healthcare data platforms, and AI-enabled capabilities.
Communicate service health, operational risks, capacity concerns, and potential impacts of infrastructure, feature, or tooling changes.
Contribute to documentation, runbooks, incident records, operational standards, and knowledge sharing.
Participate in on-call rotations and operational support for production services.