DescriptionOCI Incident Response is the first line of defense for maintaining the high availability of Oracle's cloud. We make customer-impacting events shorter, less frequent, and less impactful by providing large-scale incident management. We are front-and-center in driving down event duration by utilizing our operational experience, knowledge of best practices, and ability to develop tools to automate incident management. We are looking for a Principal SRE to join our OCI teamThis role is part of a globally distributed team responsible for detecting, triaging, and mitigating OCI service-impacting events as quickly as possible. You will be a part of one of these regional teams and be responsible for minimizing the downtime of OCI services. You will achieve this through delivering excellent major incident management and by operating systems with high scalability, performance, and security that prevent incidents from occurring.Oracle's Cloud is state-of-the-art and constantly evolving. When it experiences issues, your team will respond within minutes to ensure customer impact is mitigated. This experience will expose you to the inner workings of OCI's systems and organizations. You will interact with and influence leaders from across the Oracle business and will drive broad cross-organization programs meant to iteratively improve OCI-wide service availability. We are an agile team with significant impact. If you want to be a part of a fast-moving team breaking new ground, we would like to speak with youCareer Level - IC4ResponsibilitiesOracle's Cloud is innovative and constantly evolving. When it experiences issues, your team will respond within minutes to ensure customer impact is mitigated. This experience will expose you to the inner workings of OCI's systems and organizations. You will interact with and influence leaders from across the Oracle business and will drive broad cross-organization programs meant to iteratively improve OCI-wide service availability. We are an agile team with significant impact. If you want to be a part of a fast-moving team breaking new ground, we would like to speak with youResponsibilitiesSolve complex problems related to infrastructure cloud services and automate common tasks to enable continuous availability with minimal human overheadCommand and coordinate SMEs and Service leaders to restore service as quickly as possible during Major Incidents while keeping accurate and timely data on the progress of such incidentsUtilize a deep understanding of cloud computing design patterns and their dependencies to mitigate complex Major Incidents.Embed a methodical approach to troubleshoot large, complex, interconnected systems used in Incident Detection & Orchestration Documents pertinent information relating to Incidents that aids process improvement, identifies deviations and enables the creation of an Incident Knowledge BaseMonitors and evaluates high-level service and infrastructure dashboards and takes action to address identified anomaliesIdentifies opportunities and takes ownership for automation and/or continuous improvement of Incident Management process steps and best practicesCan define and document technical architecture of large-scale distributed systems. Understand the end-to-end configuration, technical dependencies, and overall behavioral characteristics of production services. Responsible for the design and delivery of the mission critical stack, with focus on security, resiliency, scale, and performance. Partner with development teams in defining operational requirements for product roadmaps. Articulate technical characteristics of services and technology areas and guide Development Teams to engineer and add premier capabilities to the Oracle Cloud service portfolio. Act as ultimate escalation point for complex or critical issues that have not yet been documented as Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs). Minimum QualificationsBachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or relevant work experience..5+ years experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps or System Engineering.Must have public cloud operations experience (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI).Extensive experience with Major Incident Management in a cloud-based environment.Demonstrate clear understanding of automation and orchestration principles. Experience having worked in at least one modern object-oriented programming language.Experience with professional software engineering standard methodologies such as Agile project management, coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.Familiarity with infrastructure automation tools such as Chef, Ansible, Jenkins, TerraformExcellent expertise with several of following technologies: Infrastructure-as-a-Service, CI/CD systems, Docker, RESTful APIs, log analysis tools, debugging toolsPreferred QualificationsStrong leadership, project planning, communication, and execution skillsStrong analytic and problem-solving skills.Proven track record of leading high blast-radius Major Incidents in cloud-based platforms.Strong leadership, project planning, communication, and execution skillsAbility to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.Ability to communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders at all levels.Confidence to drive and manage large conference calls.Experience with distributed service-oriented architecturesQualificationsCareer Level - IC4