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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 Visa Sponsorship as a Site Engineer
Get your credentials evaluated before applying
If you earned your engineering degree outside the U.S., have it evaluated by a NACES-approved credential evaluation service. Employers and USCIS need confirmation your degree is equivalent to a U.S. bachelor's in a directly related engineering field.
Verify your role qualifies as specialty occupation
Site engineer positions vary widely. Use O*NET to confirm the occupation requires a specific engineering degree, not just any bachelor's. Roles blending general construction management with engineering duties can face H-1B specialty occupation challenges at USCIS.
Target employers with active LCA filing history
Search Migrate Mate to find companies that have filed Labor Condition Applications for site engineer and civil engineering roles. Those employers already understand the sponsorship process and are far less likely to withdraw offers mid-filing.
Check prevailing wage before negotiating your offer
Your employer must pay at least the DOL prevailing wage for your role and location. Run the OFLC Wage Search using the correct SOC code for site engineers before you negotiate, so your offer clears the LCA wage requirement without last-minute renegotiation.
Clarify project-based work in your offer letter
Site engineers often rotate across job sites, which can complicate H-1B LCA filings. Your offer letter should specify your primary worksite or headquarters address, since the employer may need to file amended petitions with USCIS if you move to a new worksite long-term.
Align your PE licensure timeline with your visa status
Some site engineer roles require or prefer a Professional Engineer license, which takes years to obtain in the U.S. Plan your state PE exam timeline against your H-1B status period so a delayed license doesn't affect your ability to meet role requirements at renewal.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does a site engineer role qualify for H-1B sponsorship?
Yes, if the position genuinely requires a bachelor's degree or higher in civil, structural, mechanical, or a directly related engineering field. Roles that only prefer a degree, or that accept any bachelor's regardless of field, may not meet the H-1B specialty occupation standard. Employers confirm this requirement in the Labor Condition Application they file with DOL before USCIS reviews your petition.
Can Canadian or Mexican site engineers use a TN visa instead of H-1B?
Yes. Engineers are listed on the USMCA profession list, so Canadian and Mexican nationals with an engineering degree can apply for TN visa status. Canadian citizens can apply directly at a U.S. port of entry without a visa stamp. TN status is granted for up to three years and is renewable, but unlike H-1B it does not allow dual intent, meaning you can't simultaneously pursue a green card.
What engineering degree does a site engineer need for visa sponsorship?
USCIS requires that your degree field directly relates to the job duties. Civil engineering, structural engineering, geotechnical engineering, and construction engineering degrees are the strongest fits for most site engineer roles. A general degree in business administration or project management typically won't support a specialty occupation claim, even if you have years of relevant experience on your resume.
How do I find site engineer jobs where employers are open to sponsorship?
Browse site engineer roles on Migrate Mate, which lists employers with verified sponsorship history for engineering positions. Many companies that regularly work on large infrastructure or commercial construction projects have established sponsorship processes and are far more likely to extend offers to candidates who need visa support.
Does moving between job sites affect my H-1B status as a site engineer?
It can. H-1B petitions are tied to a specific worksite address listed on the Labor Condition Application. If you're assigned to a new project site for more than a short-term period, your employer may need to file an amended petition and a new LCA with DOL for that location. Short-term placements under certain conditions may be exempt, but your employer's immigration counsel should confirm this before each major site rotation.
What is the prevailing wage requirement for sponsored Site Engineer jobs?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.