Remote - Site Reliability Developer 3 (USC)

About the role

This role provides support to core data platforms behind Oracle Health’s Data & Analytics Platform. As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), you will own shared, mission-critical systems used by multiple products and teams.

Responsibilities

• Platform Ownership & Technical Leadership
  • Own the end-to-end reliability, scalability, and operability of shared data platforms
  • Define platform standards, architectural direction, and operational guardrails
  • Influence cross-team technical decisions and long-term platform strategy
  • Drive long-term platform evolution and influence reliability strategy across the data ecosystem
• Architecture & Design
  • Clearly articulate system behavior, dependencies, and failure modes
  • Made principled trade-offs between reliability, performance, cost, and complexity
  • Provide guidance and guardrails that enable downstream teams to use platforms safely and effectively
• Operations Engineering
  • Establish capacity models, scaling strategies, and operational best practices
  • Design platforms that behave predictably under load, failure, and change
  • Own platform lifecycle events: upgrades, expansions, decommissioning, and recovery
• Distributed Systems Expertise
  • Operate and evolve stateful distributed systems where data placement, replication, and recovery are critical
  • Reason about failure modes such as backpressure, rebalancing, region movement, replication lag, and rolling upgrades
• Security
  • Operate and maintain Kerberized platforms, including authentication, authorization, and secure service-to-service communication
  • Treat security as a first-class architectural concern
• Automation
  • Design and evolve an Ansible- and Terraform-driven automation framework
  • Treat automation as production software: versioned, reviewed, tested, and improved
  • Eliminate operational toil by encoding reliability and safety into the platform
• Incident Leadership & Prevention
  • Serve as the ultimate escalation point for complex or ambiguous incidents
  • Focus on eliminating entire classes of failure, not just resolving individual issues
• Representation
  • Represent SRE and platform engineering in high-visibility and sensitive forums
  • Communicate clearly with engineering leadership and partner teams

Requirements

• 4+ years operating large-scale, customer-facing distributed platforms
• Deep experience with HDFS, YARN, HBase, Kafka, Storm, or similar systems
• Strong background in Linux, networking, and distributed system troubleshooting
• Infrastructure-as-Code using Ansible and Terraform
• Scripting and automation using Python, Ruby, and Bash
• Hands-on experience operating Kerberized environments
• Proven ability to define and document technical architecture for complex systems
• Demonstrated ownership of shared platforms with broad blast radius and multiple downstream consumers
• Experience designing observability and capacity models for distributed platforms

Qualifications

• U.S. Citizenship and eligibility for a Federal Security Clearance
• 5+ years of technical experience relevant to this position
• Ability to communicate effectively and build rapport with team members
• BS or MS in Computer Science, or equivalent