Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Oracle
Nashville, TN
$81,100–$187,000from the description
Jul 28, 2026
Nashville, TN
Jul 29, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This is a site reliability / systems operations role at Oracle, responsible for administering Windows Server and Linux environments across production and non-production systems. Day-to-day work centers on deployments, patching, incident response, vulnerability remediation, and scripted automation rather than building new software. The role suits an infrastructure operations professional with hands-on OS administration experience and familiarity with cloud-hosted environments, ideally including Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
Mid level · 3+ years · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
Posted 3 times — it's one opening, so apply once.
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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 $101,310 (middle half $79,725–$129,425). 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 (4)
The scripting requirement (PowerShell, Bash, Python, Ansible, Chef) is listed as 'one or more of the following' — these are interchangeable options for satisfying a single gate. PowerShell is listed as the primary with the others as alternatives, but all are equally valid; the gate is on scripting ability, not any specific tool.
The degree requirement states 'Bachelor's degree … or equivalent practical experience,' so no formal degree is hard-gated.
The SOC classification is a close call: the role is titled SRE and mentions automation and scripting, but the primary day-to-day responsibilities (OS administration, patching, deployments from runbooks, incident response, log review) are operations-focused rather than software-development-focused, pointing to 15-1244. 15-1252 is noted as a runner-up given the scripting and automation elements.
All preferred qualifications (OCI, Cerner/Millennium, STIGs, Citrix, infrastructure-as-code, monitoring/observability, CI/CD pipelines, Oracle Database) appear under the 'Preferred Qualifications' heading and are marked accordingly.
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