Lead Principal Site Reliability Engineer - CSS at Oracle
San Juan, PR
$96,300–$264,100from the description
Jul 28, 2026
San Juan, PR
Jul 29, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior-level Site Reliability Engineer role supporting a strategic financial-services customer's cloud platform and mission-critical applications at Oracle. The engineer will build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and observability tooling; lead incident response and root cause analysis; and drive automation to improve availability, reduce toil, and meet defined SLOs across production environments running on OCI and other major cloud providers.
Senior level · 8+ years · Remote · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 13,100 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 7,900–19,700
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
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). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 29, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (10)
The posting lists no specific work location — it is posted by Oracle for a customer-facing SRE role with no city or state specified. The CBSA and state fields are left blank accordingly.
The title 'Site Reliability Engineer' carries no explicit level word; however, the internal career level is noted as 'IC5', which at Oracle corresponds to a senior individual-contributor band — consistent with the 8+ years required experience.
The role is classified as 15-1252 (Software Developers) because the primary deliverables are code-centric: writing IaC with Terraform, building CI/CD pipelines, and developing automation scripts. 15-1244 (Network and Computer Systems Administrators) is listed as the runner-up because a significant portion of the responsibilities involve operating and monitoring production infrastructure.
OCI is listed as the preferred cloud platform ('Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) or another major cloud provider'); AWS, Azure, and GCP are named as acceptable alternatives and are captured in the alternatives field.
The observability requirement names multiple interchangeable tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, Splunk, Datadog, New Relic, OCI Native Observability). Prometheus is used as the primary name with the most common peers in alternatives; Grafana and ELK/OpenSearch are also widely used but are captured under the same requirement to avoid splitting a single 'or' gate.
The CI/CD requirement names Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, and Azure DevOps as interchangeable options; Jenkins is used as the primary name with the others in alternatives.
The scripting requirement names Python, Bash, and PowerShell as interchangeable; Python is used as the primary name. Bash is also listed separately as a standalone required skill given its explicit mention in the responsibilities section for automation scripts.
The 'Desired Skills' section is a flat list with no 'preferred' framing beyond the heading itself; skills already captured as required are not duplicated. Git and Agile appear only in that desired list and are marked as preferred.
The degree requirement states 'Bachelor's degree … or equivalent experience', so no formal degree is hard-gated and the degree requirement is set to None.
The compensation range ($96,300–$264,100/year) is unusually wide; Oracle's posting explicitly notes this reflects variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions, and locations across its workforce.
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