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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s Kubernetes Engine (OKE) team is looking for an experienced Senior Principal Site Reliability Engineer to help build and operate a Kubernetes platform at global scale.
In this hands-on technical leadership role, you will solve problems spanning distributed systems, Kubernetes, networking, cloud infrastructure, and deployment automation. You will improve how services launch in new cloud regions, validate releases, recover from failures, and use infrastructure efficiently. Your work will combine software engineering, systems expertise, and close collaboration with teams across OCI.
You will own complex initiatives from design through implementation and operational handover. Projects may include automating regional service deployments, improving release validation, planning software upgrades, strengthening cloud access controls, and eliminating recurring operational work. You will also serve as a technical escalation resource and help other engineers grow through mentoring, design reviews, and knowledge sharing.
We are looking for someone with strong Cloud Infrastructure, Linux, and networking fundamentals; experience operating production distributed systems; and the ability to build maintainable software and infrastructure automation. You should be comfortable investigating unfamiliar systems, making sound decisions about reliability and security, and bringing multiple teams together to deliver a solution.
Deep experience with Terraform, automated deployment pipelines, observability, cloud identity and access management, is expected. Experience with OCI or another major cloud platform is valuable.
This role offers the opportunity to influence service architecture and engineering practices while delivering tangible improvements: safer releases, more predictable region launches, faster recovery, and less operational toil.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Infrastructure Architecture and Capacity Management
- Lead the design and evolution of reliable, secure, and scalable infrastructure for OCI Kubernetes services.
- Plan infrastructure capacity for new region launches and service growth, addressing resource constraints, hardware differences, and availability requirements.
- Partner with software engineering teams to improve service architecture, deployment dependencies, and readiness for new cloud environments.
- Evaluate and prototype infrastructure improvements, including smaller service footprints and more efficient compute configurations.
- Identify opportunities to reduce cloud costs through rightsizing, resource lifecycle automation, and safe removal of unused infrastructure.
Incident and Service Lifecycle Management
- Lead operational readiness throughout the service lifecycle, from initial provisioning and regional deployment through upgrades and decommissioning.
- Use service health, performance, and capacity data to identify risks and prioritize engineering improvements.
- Plan and execute Kubernetes upgrades, infrastructure changes, and security updates with appropriate validation and recovery procedures.
- Improve release safety through reliable artifact publication, automated health checks, controlled rollouts, and tested rollback strategies.
- Strengthen infrastructure security through appropriate access controls, secure configuration, and sustainable remediation practices.
Automation
- Identify recurring operational work and lead automation initiatives that improve reliability, deployment speed, and engineering efficiency.
- Design, implement, and maintain infrastructure as code, deployment workflows, and tools for provisioning, monitoring, diagnosis, and remediation.
- Build repeatable region-build testing and service validation that expose configuration errors, missing dependencies, and artifact issues before deployment.
- Test complex automation for correctness, failure handling, recovery, and safe operation across environments.
- Guide engineers in designing maintainable automation and establishing clear ownership and operational documentation.
Technical Communication and Guidance
- Communicate service architecture, operational risks, capacity needs, and deployment requirements clearly to engineering teams and leadership.
- Explain the impact and tradeoffs of infrastructure and service changes, including implications for availability, security, cost, and delivery.
- Create and maintain design documents, runbooks, upgrade plans, and operational handover materials.
- Mentor engineers through technical reviews, hands-on troubleshooting, and knowledge-sharing sessions.
Troubleshooting and Resolution
- Serve as a technical escalation point for complex failures across Kubernetes control planes, management services, networking, identity, storage, and cloud infrastructure.
- Participate in on-call rotations and lead technical investigations to restore service and protect customer workloads.
- Coordinate resolution of issues spanning multiple services and teams, using evidence from logs, metrics, configuration, and source code.
- Lead root-cause analysis and post-incident reviews, documenting contributing factors and lessons learned.
- Drive corrective actions through implementation and validation to prevent recurring incidents.
Innovation and Improvement
- Identify architectural bottlenecks and improve deployment orchestration, service validation, and recovery mechanisms.
- Evaluate tools and technologies that improve infrastructure reliability and engineering productivity while meeting security requirements.
- Use operational evidence to prioritize improvements and measure their effect on deployment time, service health, resource consumption, and manual effort.
- Turn successful solutions into reusable tools and practices that benefit multiple engineering teams.
Core Responsibilities
Planning and Execution
- Own complex engineering initiatives from problem definition and design through delivery and operational handover.
- Establish milestones, track dependencies, communicate risks, and adjust plans as priorities or capacity change.
- Balance project delivery with operational responsibilities and long-term reliability improvements.
Collaboration and Partnership
- Build effective partnerships across service development, infrastructure, security, and region-build teams.
- Establish clear responsibilities and readiness criteria for shared workflows and service handovers.
- Resolve dependencies and technical disagreements through clear communication, evidence, and shared delivery goals.
Problem Solving
- Bring structure to ambiguous problems spanning multiple systems or teams.
- Investigate underlying causes, evaluate tradeoffs, and deliver durable solutions.
- Exercise sound judgment when making changes to production infrastructure and customer-facing services.
Continuous Learning
- Maintain deep expertise in Kubernetes, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and site reliability engineering.
- Apply new knowledge to improve service design and operations.
- Develop other engineers through mentoring, constructive feedback, and practical technical training.
INTRODUCTION
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s Kubernetes Engine (OKE) team is looking for an experienced Senior Principal Site Reliability Engineer to help build and operate a Kubernetes platform at global scale.
In this hands-on technical leadership role, you will solve problems spanning distributed systems, Kubernetes, networking, cloud infrastructure, and deployment automation. You will improve how services launch in new cloud regions, validate releases, recover from failures, and use infrastructure efficiently. Your work will combine software engineering, systems expertise, and close collaboration with teams across OCI.
You will own complex initiatives from design through implementation and operational handover. Projects may include automating regional service deployments, improving release validation, planning software upgrades, strengthening cloud access controls, and eliminating recurring operational work. You will also serve as a technical escalation resource and help other engineers grow through mentoring, design reviews, and knowledge sharing.
We are looking for someone with strong Cloud Infrastructure, Linux, and networking fundamentals; experience operating production distributed systems; and the ability to build maintainable software and infrastructure automation. You should be comfortable investigating unfamiliar systems, making sound decisions about reliability and security, and bringing multiple teams together to deliver a solution.
Deep experience with Terraform, automated deployment pipelines, observability, cloud identity and access management, is expected. Experience with OCI or another major cloud platform is valuable.
This role offers the opportunity to influence service architecture and engineering practices while delivering tangible improvements: safer releases, more predictable region launches, faster recovery, and less operational toil.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Infrastructure Architecture and Capacity Management
- Lead the design and evolution of reliable, secure, and scalable infrastructure for OCI Kubernetes services.
- Plan infrastructure capacity for new region launches and service growth, addressing resource constraints, hardware differences, and availability requirements.
- Partner with software engineering teams to improve service architecture, deployment dependencies, and readiness for new cloud environments.
- Evaluate and prototype infrastructure improvements, including smaller service footprints and more efficient compute configurations.
- Identify opportunities to reduce cloud costs through rightsizing, resource lifecycle automation, and safe removal of unused infrastructure.
Incident and Service Lifecycle Management
- Lead operational readiness throughout the service lifecycle, from initial provisioning and regional deployment through upgrades and decommissioning.
- Use service health, performance, and capacity data to identify risks and prioritize engineering improvements.
- Plan and execute Kubernetes upgrades, infrastructure changes, and security updates with appropriate validation and recovery procedures.
- Improve release safety through reliable artifact publication, automated health checks, controlled rollouts, and tested rollback strategies.
- Strengthen infrastructure security through appropriate access controls, secure configuration, and sustainable remediation practices.
Automation
- Identify recurring operational work and lead automation initiatives that improve reliability, deployment speed, and engineering efficiency.
- Design, implement, and maintain infrastructure as code, deployment workflows, and tools for provisioning, monitoring, diagnosis, and remediation.
- Build repeatable region-build testing and service validation that expose configuration errors, missing dependencies, and artifact issues before deployment.
- Test complex automation for correctness, failure handling, recovery, and safe operation across environments.
- Guide engineers in designing maintainable automation and establishing clear ownership and operational documentation.
Technical Communication and Guidance
- Communicate service architecture, operational risks, capacity needs, and deployment requirements clearly to engineering teams and leadership.
- Explain the impact and tradeoffs of infrastructure and service changes, including implications for availability, security, cost, and delivery.
- Create and maintain design documents, runbooks, upgrade plans, and operational handover materials.
- Mentor engineers through technical reviews, hands-on troubleshooting, and knowledge-sharing sessions.
Troubleshooting and Resolution
- Serve as a technical escalation point for complex failures across Kubernetes control planes, management services, networking, identity, storage, and cloud infrastructure.
- Participate in on-call rotations and lead technical investigations to restore service and protect customer workloads.
- Coordinate resolution of issues spanning multiple services and teams, using evidence from logs, metrics, configuration, and source code.
- Lead root-cause analysis and post-incident reviews, documenting contributing factors and lessons learned.
- Drive corrective actions through implementation and validation to prevent recurring incidents.
Innovation and Improvement
- Identify architectural bottlenecks and improve deployment orchestration, service validation, and recovery mechanisms.
- Evaluate tools and technologies that improve infrastructure reliability and engineering productivity while meeting security requirements.
- Use operational evidence to prioritize improvements and measure their effect on deployment time, service health, resource consumption, and manual effort.
- Turn successful solutions into reusable tools and practices that benefit multiple engineering teams.
Core Responsibilities
Planning and Execution
- Own complex engineering initiatives from problem definition and design through delivery and operational handover.
- Establish milestones, track dependencies, communicate risks, and adjust plans as priorities or capacity change.
- Balance project delivery with operational responsibilities and long-term reliability improvements.
Collaboration and Partnership
- Build effective partnerships across service development, infrastructure, security, and region-build teams.
- Establish clear responsibilities and readiness criteria for shared workflows and service handovers.
- Resolve dependencies and technical disagreements through clear communication, evidence, and shared delivery goals.
Problem Solving
- Bring structure to ambiguous problems spanning multiple systems or teams.
- Investigate underlying causes, evaluate tradeoffs, and deliver durable solutions.
- Exercise sound judgment when making changes to production infrastructure and customer-facing services.
Continuous Learning
- Maintain deep expertise in Kubernetes, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and site reliability engineering.
- Apply new knowledge to improve service design and operations.
- Develop other engineers through mentoring, constructive feedback, and practical technical training.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding H-1B Visa Sponsorship as a Sre Engineer
Align your resume to LCA job codes
SRE roles get filed under DOL occupation codes like Software Developers or Computer Occupations. Match your resume's language to the SOC code your target employer uses, so your credentials map cleanly to the LCA they'll file.
Verify your degree satisfies specialty occupation
USCIS requires a direct relationship between your degree field and the SRE role. A computer science or software engineering degree is the cleanest path. Related fields like electrical engineering or information systems can qualify if your coursework covers systems reliability concepts.
Search for employers with active LCA filings
Use Migrate Mate to filter SRE roles by employers with verified H-1B Labor Condition Application history, so you're applying to companies that have already cleared the DOL filing process rather than employers figuring it out for the first time.
Clarify infrastructure ownership before accepting offers
SRE roles at staffing vendors or consulting firms often place you at a client site, which creates a secondary employer relationship USCIS scrutinizes heavily. Before accepting an offer, confirm whether the petitioning employer controls your day-to-day work assignments.
Request premium processing for time-sensitive transitions
If you're changing employers within your 60-day grace period, standard H-1B processing timelines can push past your authorized stay. Ask your new employer to file with USCIS premium processing to get a decision within 15 business days.
Document on-call and incident-response work for RFEs
USCIS sometimes issues Requests for Evidence questioning whether SRE duties are truly specialty occupation. Detailed offer letters listing reliability engineering responsibilities, SLO ownership, and incident command work strengthen your petition against that challenge.
H-1B Visa Sre Engineer: Frequently Asked Questions
Does an SRE Engineer role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
Yes. SRE Engineer positions fall under USCIS's computer occupations category and consistently meet the specialty occupation standard when the role requires a bachelor's degree or higher in computer science, software engineering, or a directly related field. The O*NET profile for this occupation lists a bachelor's degree as the typical entry-level education, which supports the specialty occupation argument in most petitions.
How do I find SRE Engineer employers who sponsor H-1B visas?
Search Migrate Mate for SRE Engineer roles filtered by verified H-1B sponsorship history. Employers with active Labor Condition Application filings on record have already demonstrated willingness and ability to sponsor. Targeting these companies shortens your job search significantly compared to approaching employers who have never filed an H-1B petition before.
What wage level should my H-1B petition list for an SRE Engineer role?
Your employer must certify a prevailing wage at or above the DOL wage level that matches your experience and job duties. SRE roles with significant autonomy, on-call ownership, and cross-functional responsibilities often warrant Level III or Level IV wages. You can check applicable wage floors by SOC code and location using the OFLC Wage Search before evaluating any offer.
Can I transfer my H-1B to a new SRE employer mid-year without losing status?
Yes, under H-1B portability rules, you can start working for a new employer as soon as they file a non-frivolous H-1B transfer petition, even before USCIS approves it. Your previous employer's approved H-1B is what enables the transfer, so you don't need to wait for a new cap selection. The 60-day grace period after leaving your prior job gives you a window to initiate this process.
Does working as a contractor or through a staffing agency affect my H-1B as an SRE?
It can complicate your petition. USCIS applies an end-client relationship test to SRE roles placed at client sites, requiring the petitioning employer to demonstrate it controls your work. Itinerary letters, master service agreements, and statements of work that show employer control over your reliability engineering duties are typically required. Direct-hire SRE roles avoid this scrutiny entirely.