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Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer (SRE)

Oracle
staff
Location

United Kingdom

Work Type

Onsite

Seniority

staff

Posted

August 10, 2026


Total Compensation
€293,333
Yearly Savings (Comfortable)
€169,694
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Job Description

We’re hiring an SRE to support new OCI storage and data services, with a focus on reliability, operations, automation, and scaling production services.

This role is ideal for someone with a strong SRE or infrastructure engineering background who enjoys building operational tooling, improving service reliability, and supporting critical cloud services at scale.

Key responsibilities:

  • Support OCI storage and data-oriented services in production
  • Provide operational coverage across UK and non-US time zones
  • Build automation to reduce manual operational work
  • Improve monitoring, dashboards, telemetry, and alerting
  • Support incident response, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis
  • Build tools and processes that improve reliability and operational efficiency
  • Partner closely with engineering teams to improve service readiness and resilience

Ideal experience:

  • Strong SRE, infrastructure, or production engineering background
  • automation skills
  • Experience supporting large-scale production services
  • Hands-on experience with observability, dashboards, alerting, and incident management
  • Ability to diagnose complex issues and drive long-term reliability improvements
  • Background in storage, databases, streaming, distributed systems, or data-oriented services

Relevant technical backgrounds may include:

  • Database internals, such as MySQL or Oracle
  • Block storage, file systems, SAN, or distributed storage
  • Streaming, replication, or key-value systems
  • Large-scale platforms with similarities to Kafka, DynamoDB, or database-like systems

This is a great opportunity for someone who wants to work on high-impact cloud infrastructure, improve the reliability of critical services, and help mature systems as they scale.

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