Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Database Services

Oracle Health Database Services is seeking a highly 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 successful candidate will deliver measurable improvements in reliability, scalability, performance, operational readiness, and customer experience across database platforms.

This role is ideal for an engineer who can think strategically, execute hands-on, influence technical direction, and help transform traditional database operations into proactive, automated, engineering-led reliability practices.

•    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.

Minimum Qualifications

•  Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field; equivalent practical experience will be considered.
•    5+ years of experience as an Oracle DBA, Database Reliability Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, Production Engineer, or 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.

Preferred Qualifications

•    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
Senior Site Reliability Engineer (IC3) – Key Skills
1.    Oracle Database Engineering & Administration
2.    Oracle Grid Infrastructure, ASM, RAC & Data Guard
3.    Oracle Exadata, ExaCC, ExaCS & OCI
4.    Oracle GoldenGate, RMAN Backup & Recovery
5.    Database Performance Tuning, Capacity Management & Optimization
6.    Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Observability & Incident Management
7.    Python, SQL/PLSQL, Perl & Unix Shell Scripting
8.    DevOps, GitHub, CI/CD & Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible)
9.    AI/ML, LLMs, RAG & AI-Driven Automation

This role is not eligible for sponsorship

Disclaimer:
Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.
Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only
US: Hiring Range in USD from: $81,100 to $187,000 per annum. May be eligible for bonus and equity.
Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.
Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.
Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:
1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
2. Short term disability and long term disability
3. Life insurance and AD&D
4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
8. Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
9. 11 paid holidays
10. Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
11. Paid parental leave
12. Adoption assistance
13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan
14. Financial planning and group legal
15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance
The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.
As part of Oracle's onboarding process and consistent with applicable law, US-based employees are required to complete identity verification, which involves the collection and processing of their biometric information. Accommodations to this requirement may be granted following an individualized assessment.