Senior Manager, Site Reliability Engineering

About the role

Supports team members designing and architecting infrastructure and/or service, sharing guidance on practices and terms for reliability and functionality. Supervises team members and provides direction to ensure accurate forecasting of demands for infrastructure and response to capacity needs, ensuring systems have sufficient resources to handle current and future workloads and identifying resource gaps.

Maintains a collaborative relationship with the software development team to develop infrastructures, ensuring features are reliable and scalable according to deployment requirements. Implements expectations for identifying opportunities for prototyping and manages prototyping initiatives (e.g., testing new applications or infrastructures, assisting in onboarding) to explore novel approaches.

Responsibilities

• Monitors data collection, triage, technical analysis, and redirection, ensuring team members maintain and optimize operations and infrastructure reliability.
• Provides support to team members monitoring services, ensuring they maintain up-to-date knowledge of performance and document their condition.
• Leverages advanced knowledge to aid team members in performing incident response, root cause analyses, and/or maintenance on assigned services (e.g., software installs, version upgrades, security updates, backup and recovery).
• Maintains comprehensive health and performance reporting and ensures team members take appropriate actions based on trends in data.
• Encourages team members to experiment with new approaches for and perform decommissioning (e.g., shutting down servers, removing data from databases) to remove objects that are no longer needed.
• Implements standards for identifying and recommending opportunities for automation and assesses potential benefits to enhance operational efficiency.
• Takes a proactive role in reviewing and offering feedback on design, automation tools, or scripts, acting as a leader during implementation.
• Shares strategies for conducting testing on automations to ensure they perform tasks correctly and produce expected results.
• Reviews and provides feedback on release notes and ensures team members communicate comprehensive information about the scale, capacity, security, performance attributes, and requirements of services and technology with customers and immediate and related teams.
• Proactively anticipates and articulates the potential impact of infrastructure, feature, and tool changes, considering their impact across team operations.
• Serves as a resource to team members on what information to communicate and how to communicate.
• Serves as a senior management escalation point for incidents and complex issues arising within Oracle services.
• Makes sure technical issues are resolved effectively and efficiently, using effective investigation and debugging techniques to achieve SLOs (service level objectives).
• Shares expectations for documenting incidents performing root cause analyses, guiding team members to capture essential information for analysis and future reference.
• Implements guidelines for post-mortem procedures to prevent incident reoccurrence.
• Ensures team members adhere to service level agreements (SLAs) made with customers.
• Manages and contributes to the prioritization of initiatives to improve performance bottlenecks and deployments, ensuring efficient resource usage, speed, and scalability.
• Implements standards for developing and maintaining knowledge of site reliability trends and sharing valuable insights and information with team members, management, and beyond to promote innovative building, testing, deploying, and running services.
• Leverages analyses and data from teams to contribute to business development decisions (e.g., design changes).
• Manages and guides teams on adjusting plans to accommodate resource or timeline changes.
• Drives cross-functional partnerships to align expectations and shared objectives across multiple teams.
• Coaches team members to develop strategic relationships with business leaders, stakeholders, and external partners to foster collaboration and long-term success.
• Promotes inclusivity by actively seeking and listening to diverse perspectives, ensuring others feel heard and respected.
• Provides direction to multiple teams on addressing complex operational and/or technical issues as well as providing guidance on analyzing complex data and/or information to identify solutions.
• Reviews and provides insights into unresolved or critical issues, helping the team to identify potential solutions.
• Models engaging in continuous learning to deepen expertise and stay ahead of industry trends, integrating best practices into strategic planning.
• Identifies skill gaps across teams, and empowers team members to pursue learning and knowledge sharing opportunities that build their expertise in new areas and coaches them to apply learnings to advance the organization.
• Drives team to collaborate on, develop, and implement ideas to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of processes, protocols, and workflows within and across teams, providing oversight.
• Guides team to adopt new ideas for alternative approaches and methods and encourages feedback for continued improvement.
• Drives performance across teams by providing feedback and coaching in alignment with performance management processes, guidelines, and expectations.
• Develops and manages talent acquisition pipeline by leading candidate interviews, monitoring promotion eligibility, and/or orchestrating talent resources.

Qualifications

• Education and/or Experience: 9 years of experience in software engineering, infrastructure management, or related field OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field AND 5 years of experience in software engineering, infrastructure management, or related field OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field AND 3 years of experience in software engineering, infrastructure management, or related field OR Doctorate in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field AND 1 year of experience in software engineering, infrastructure management, or related field.
• Job Skills: Same Skills a prior level Automation Experience: 5 years of experience in automation. Programming Experience: 5 years of experience in programming and/or scripting.

Preferred Qualifications

• Education and/or Experience: 11 years of experience in software engineering, infrastructure management, or related field OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field AND 7 years of experience in software engineering, infrastructure management, or related field OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field AND 5 years of experience in software engineering, infrastructure management, or related field OR Doctorate in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field AND 3 years of experience in software engineering, infrastructure management, or related field.
• People Leadership / Management Experience: 2 years of experience in a leadership role with direct reports.
• Budget Experience: 2 years of experience working with operating budgets and/or project financials.
• Automation Experience: 7 years of experience in automation. Programming Experience: 7 years of experience in programming and/or scripting.