Principal Site Reliability Engineer at Oracle
Nashville, TN
$84,900–$209,500from the description
Jul 28, 2026
Nashville, TN
Jul 29, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This is a senior-level site reliability / infrastructure engineering role at Oracle, focused on designing, deploying, and operating highly available enterprise infrastructure across Windows Server and Linux environments, including Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. The position involves leading incident response, patching initiatives, automation development, and security hardening (STIG compliance), with a strong emphasis on technical leadership and mentoring across multiple engineering teams. It suits an experienced infrastructure or SRE professional comfortable bridging operations, security, and application hosting in regulated or government-adjacent environments.
Senior level · 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 $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 (7)
The scripting/automation section lists PowerShell, Bash, Python, Ansible, and Chef as a group with 'one or more of the following' — these are interchangeable satisfiers of a single hard-gated requirement. PowerShell is listed as the primary with the others as alternatives; all are marked required as a group but individually interchangeable.
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is listed under a required 'Core Skills' section but qualified with 'or another major cloud platform,' so AWS, Azure, and GCP are captured as alternatives.
No specific total years of experience is stated in the posting; the career level designation 'IC4' implies a senior individual-contributor band at Oracle but no numeric year floor is given.
Location is not specified in the posting beyond 'US'; no CBSA or state could be determined. The compensation range is stated as US-wide.
The SOC classification is a close call: the role describes both operating/administering infrastructure (15-1244) and writing automation/reliability code (15-1252). The primary day-to-day emphasis on deployment, patching, incident response, and system administration tips the classification toward 15-1244, but candidates with a software-development SRE background would also be well-suited.
Preferred qualifications include Oracle Health/Millennium/Cerner application experience, federal cybersecurity workflows, Citrix, legacy infrastructure, HA/DR design, and SRE observability practices (SLIs, SLOs, error budgets) — all listed under 'Preferred Qualifications' and marked accordingly.
STIG compliance and federal cybersecurity requirements appear in the required core skills section and are marked as hard gates; experience supporting federal clients is listed under Preferred and treated as optional.
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