Senior Systems Engineer

We are seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to join the AI Infra Operations team supporting GPU infrastructure in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). In this role, you will assist in the development and maintenance of automation and operational tooling for GPU fleets across multiple regions, ensuring high availability. You will collaborate  with engineering and operations teams to build robust automation, observability, and reliability solutions while continuously working on and improving GPU operations.

Responsibilities

• Independently troubleshoot and resolve production issues involving Linux hosts, GPU systems, and host-network interactions.
• Support GPU host operations across provisioning, validation, incident response, and operational readiness activities.
• Own incident response and resolution for assigned services while escalating appropriately when problems cross team or domain boundaries.
• Identify recurring failure patterns and contribute improvements to runbooks, tooling, monitoring, and operational procedures.
• Work with partner teams to resolve issues that span hardware, operating systems, networking, and service dependencies.
• Contribute automation and scripting improvements that reduce manual effort and improve operator effectiveness.
• Participate in on-call rotations and provide support for critical infrastructure issues.
• Provide data-driven analysis to address problems instead of symptoms.

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of software operations, systems administration or infrastructure automation experience with proficiency in Python and Bash.
• Strong Linux administration experience.
• Good understanding of host-level networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, routing, DNS, interface behavior, and connectivity troubleshooting.
• Understanding of peer-to-peer, node-to-node, and service-to-service communication patterns in distributed systems.
• Experience supporting data center operations or large-scale infrastructure environments.
• Demonstrated troubleshooting experience across GPU hosts, operating systems, hardware, networking, drivers, and dependent services in production.
• Automation experience using shell scripting and operational tooling to reduce manual effort and improve reliability.
• Strong operational ownership, incident handling, and problem-solving skills in production environments.
• Hands-on experience with monitoring, deployment, configuration, and support tooling used in day-to-day operations.

Preferred Skills:

• Hands-on experience with GPU infrastructure, including NVIDIA and AMD based systems, and familiarity with GPU shapes or instance families.

Qualifications

Disclaimer:

Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $74,100 to $148,300 per annum. May be eligible for bonus and equity.

Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.
Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:
1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
2. Short term disability and long term disability
3. Life insurance and AD&D
4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
8. Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
9. 11 paid holidays
10. Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
11. Paid parental leave
12. Adoption assistance
13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan
14. Financial planning and group legal
15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.
As part of Oracle's onboarding process and consistent with applicable law, US-based employees are required to complete identity verification, which involves the collection and processing of their biometric information. Accommodations to this requirement may be granted following an individualized assessment.

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