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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Cleared Site Reliability Engineer - Database - **Company:** Oracle - **Location:** Reston, VA, United States - **Salary:** $91,400.0 - $187,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Computer-Aided Design, Build Automation, Databases, Data Loss, Linux, Distributed Systems, Perl (Programming Language), Oracle Exadata, Python (Programming Language), Unix Shell, Oracle Databases, Oracle (Applications), Performance Tuning, Cloud Services, Recovery Manager (RMAN), PL-SQL, SQL Databases, Rust (Programming Language), Terraform, Software Performance, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Service Stack - **Published:** September 21, 2026 - **Apply:** https://find.jobs/jobs-near-me/apply/ats-redirect/?id=2956044593-2 ## About the Role Solve complex problems related to infrastructure cloud services and build automation to prevent problem recurrence. Design, write, and deploy software to improve the availability, scalability, and efficiency of Oracle products and services. Design and develop designs, architectures, standards, and methods for large-scale distributed systems. Facilitate service capacity planning and demand forecasting, software performance analysis, and system tuning. Responsibilities Must Possess U.S. CITIZENSHIP and ACTIVE TS/SCI W/POLY SECURITY CLEARANCE To Be Eligible for Consideration. Technical expertise with two or more areas: Terraform, Infrastructure as Code Oracle Database Linux RMAN Exadata Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance Additionally, we are looking for motivated individuals that have: Prior SRE experience managing production cloud services. Prior experience in releasing and maintaining cloud services. Excellent verbal and written communication Production experience managing systems or database environment. Experience with a general-purpose systems language such as: - Python, Perl, Unix Shell and/or database language SQL, PL/SQL,Rust This Position will require being available in Shifts and Weekends. ## Description Work with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team on the shared full stack ownership of a collection of services and/or technology areas. 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. Authority for end-to-end performance and operability. Partner with development teams in defining and implementing improvements in service architecture. Articulate technical characteristics of services and technology areas and guide Development Teams to engineer and add premier capabilities to the Oracle Cloud service portfolio. Understand and communicate the scale, capacity, security, performance attributes, and requirements of the service and technology stack. Demonstrate clear understanding of automation and orchestration principles. Act as ultimate escalation point for complex or critical issues that have not yet been documented as Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs). Utilize a deep understanding of service topology and their dependencies required to troubleshoot issues and define mitigations. Understand and explain the effect of product architecture decisions on distributed systems. 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