Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Oracle
Frankfort, KY
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Jul 22, 2026
Frankfort, KY
Jul 23, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior SRE role focused on managing large-scale incidents across Oracle's cloud infrastructure. Day-to-day work involves detecting, triaging, and coordinating the resolution of major service-impacting events, building automation to reduce manual intervention, and partnering with development teams to improve availability and resilience. Suits engineers with hands-on public cloud operations experience and a background in incident management, scripting, and infrastructure tooling.
Senior level · 4+ years · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
The posting lists two overlapping experience frameworks: a 'Minimum Qualifications' block (3+ years SRE/DevOps, 8 years overall or degree + 4 years) and a separate 'Minimum Job Qualifications' block. The lower bound across both is a Bachelor's + 4 years, so the overall years minimum is set to 4 (the minimum path). The 8-year no-degree path is also valid but represents the higher end.
No work location city is specified; the posting references AMER shift hours (9:30 AM–5:30 PM PST) and a globally distributed team, suggesting a US-based position but no specific metro is identifiable.
The role is classified as 15-1252 (Software Developers) rather than 15-1244 because the JD explicitly emphasizes building and owning automation tooling, defining technical architecture of large-scale distributed systems, and engineering new capabilities — not merely operating existing infrastructure. 15-1244 is noted as a runner-up given the heavy incident management and operations component.
Infrastructure automation tools (Chef, Ansible, Jenkins, Terraform) appear under 'Familiarity with' language in the Minimum Qualifications section, indicating they are required at a familiarity level but interchangeable; captured as a single preferred skill group with alternatives.
The OOP language requirement is a hard gate but names no specific language, so no named technology skill is emitted for it — it is captured in the notes only.
Career Level IC3 at Oracle corresponds to a Senior individual contributor, consistent with the 'Senior SRE' title.
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