Lead Principal Site Reliability Engineer(Python, Kubernetes & Cloud Infra)

Career Level – IC5 We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Site Reliability Developer to join the Engineering team within the SaaS Apps and Delivery organization. This IC5 role will provide technical leadership in designing, developing, operating, and continuously improving reliable, scalable, and secure cloud-native services running on Kubernetes in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. The successful candidate will own complex reliability and automation initiatives, influence technical direction across teams, and help establish engineering standards for deployment, observability, resilience, and operational excellence.

MCA, BE, MS in Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience. 10+ years of experience designing, developing, and operating large-scale, customer-facing web services or cloud platforms. Demonstrated experience leading complex technical initiatives and influencing architecture or engineering practices across teams. Strong expertise in Kubernetes, container technologies, and managing production applications in Kubernetes environments. Strong understanding of Cloud PaaS, SaaS, and IaaS environments; Linux, Windows, or Solaris administration; infrastructure security; compliance; monitoring; and instrumentation. Proven experience with multi-region architectures, high availability, disaster recovery, and capacity or performance engineering. Strong hands-on experience automating infrastructure and deployments using Terraform. Extensive experience designing and optimizing CI/CD pipelines, with GitLab, Git, Jenkins, and modern branching strategies. Proficiency in Python preferred, with experience in one or more of Bash, Golang, PowerShell, JavaScript, or Java. Strong understanding of automation, orchestration, Agile development, DevOps, and SRE practices. Ability to create and review technical architecture documentation and operational runbooks. Strong analytical, problem-solving, written, and verbal communication skills. A collaborative mindset, with the ability to mentor others and drive adoption of new cloud technologies and engineering practices.