Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer at Oracle
Frankfort, KY
$84,900–$209,500from the description
Jul 16, 2026
Frankfort, KY
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A hands-on infrastructure engineering role focused on designing, deploying, and optimizing cloud infrastructure for AI and machine learning workloads on Oracle Cloud. The engineer works directly with strategic customers — spanning pre- and post-sales — to architect GPU and distributed computing environments, automate provisioning, and troubleshoot performance and reliability issues in both proof-of-concept and production settings. Best suited to someone with deep Linux, HPC/GPU, and automation experience who is comfortable bridging technical and customer-facing responsibilities.
Senior level · Remote · Full-time
Advertised as Principal, but the requirements read as Senior.
“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
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 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (9)
The role is titled 'Principal' but the actual scope — customer-facing pre/post-sales infrastructure engineering for a single cloud platform — is consistent with a Senior IC rather than a true org-wide Principal. Seniority is assessed as Senior accordingly.
The qualifications section lists Ansible, Terraform, Python, and Kubernetes together as a group ('tools like Ansible, Terraform, Python and/or Kubernetes'), indicating that proficiency in at least some of these is required; they are marked as hard gates with each other as alternatives to reflect the 'and/or' framing.
Docker and Kubernetes appear together under the required qualifications section for containerization experience and are emitted as separate skills since they are distinct technologies used together.
Slurm and PBS appear in the required qualifications section but are framed with 'like' and 'etc.', suggesting they are illustrative examples of orchestration tools rather than strict gates; marked as preferred.
ML frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn) are explicitly called 'a plus' in the Preferred Qualifications section.
Jenkins, GitLab CI, and Prometheus appear under Preferred Qualifications.
OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure) is the primary platform context throughout the posting but is never explicitly listed as a required skill; marked as preferred.
No specific location is stated in the posting beyond 'US'; no CBSA could be determined. The compensation range is US-specific.
The SOC classification is Medium confidence: the role blends infrastructure engineering (building/automating AI/ML infra, IaC, scripting) with customer-facing solutions architecture. The primary day-to-day work leans toward building and deploying infrastructure code, supporting 15-1252, but 15-1244 is a plausible runner-up given the operational and systems administration emphasis.
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