Senior Core Infrastructure Engineer
Oracle · Noida · 8+ yrs experience · Posted 2026-07-24
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About the role
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is seeking a Senior Core Infrastructure Engineer to join the Access Control Ecosystem team. The Access Control Ecosystem team builds and operates foundational services that enable secure access management across OCI. In this role, you will lead the design, development, and operation of distributed infrastructure components that must scale reliably, perform efficiently, and meet the security and availability expectations of a global cloud platform. You will define and deliver scalable service architectures, improve performance and resiliency, strengthen telemetry and operational readiness, and drive automation for safe deployment, patching, recovery, and rollback. You will work closely with engineering teams across OCI to align on architecture, service reliability, and customer requirements, while also mentoring engineers and contributing to technical direction. This role is ideal for an experienced engineer with strong distributed systems expertise, proven operational ownership, and a track record of building secure, reliable cloud services at scale.
Qualifications
- Minimum Job Qualifications Education and/or Experience: 8 years of experience in software development.
- Bachelor's of Technology (B.Tech) Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 4 years of experience in software development.
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 4 years of experience in software development.
- Master's of Technology (M.Tech) Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 2 year of experience in software development.
- Master's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 2 year of experience in software development.
- Doctorate in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field.
- Job Skills: Same skills as prior level plus; Distributed Systems:
- Demonstrated ability in or knowledge of distributed systems, including designing or managing scalable, secure, and highly available software systems.
- Prototyping: Demonstrated experience creating and refining prototypes for system validation and stakeholder feedback.
- Computer Science Programming:
- Demonstrated understanding of computer science principles and ability to implement them in code.
- Software Engineering: Demonstrated proficiency in all phases of software engineering and development.
- Web Development: Demonstrated ability in or knowledge of web development, including designing, developing, or maintaining modern web applications using current frameworks.
- Innovation: Demonstrated ability in or knowledge of innovation, including generating or supporting new ideas, technologies, or processes for organizational growth.
- Cross-Functional/Team Collaboration:
- Demonstrated ability in or knowledge of cross-functional collaboration, including working with stakeholders across teams or geographies to achieve common objectives.
- Information Vulnerabilities:
- Demonstrated ability to assess and mitigate vulnerabilities in IT and physical information assets.
- Operating Systems: Demonstrated ability in or knowledge of operating systems, including installing, upgrading, and troubleshooting various operat
Responsibilities
- System Design & Architecture System Scalability:
- Implements and contributes to the development for components of distributed systems that support horizontal and vertical scaling including leveraging distributed state management tools.
- Optimizes code and/or systems for large-scale data processing in large-scale systems.
- Implements scalability requirements for assigned components and reviews implementation of team members.
- Leverages components of data plane platforms to handle large-scale data retrieval, storage, and processing.
- Implements performance and load testing.
- System Design & Architecture
- System Reliability Design:
- Collaborates with team to build fault-tolerant components capable of withstanding in-service updates by implementing redundancy, replication, and automatic failover mechanisms.
- Applies recovery oriented computing principles to design components that effectively handle service disruptions.
- Implements retry mechanisms, circuit breakers, and timeouts to help handle network unreliability.
- System Reliability Performance:
- Implements tests and alarm configurations to proactively detect and address issues/failures.
- Supports efforts to recover from failures by drafting and executing runbooks and operational procedures.
- Builds and customizes dashboards, telemetry systems, and alerting mechanisms to monitor component health.
- Correctness / Availability:
- Designs and implements functional requirements and testing for assigned features within an existing system.
- Implements tests scenarios (e.g., fault-injection, brown-out) to evaluate system correctness.
- Implements standard data replication and synchronization techniques to maintain data integrity and availability.
- Operational Troubleshooting & Incident Management:
- Diagnoses, debugs, and resolves issues in system components to support ongoing operation.
- Implements basic strategies to prevent interruptions, ensuring no maintenance windows are required for customers and users when resolving issues.
- Designs and implements automation scripts and tooling used to troubleshoot operational issues.
- Participates in operational support rotations, assisting in incident responses and root cause investigations.
- Compliance & Security:
- Applies advanced security measures to protect data and applications in multi-tenant environments, including encryption and access controls.
- Implements remediation plans to continuously improve security.
- Collaborates with the team to ensure cloud infrastructure complies with relevant industry standards and regulations and that documentation is up-to-date Automation & Change Management:
- Maintains automation scripts and tools (e.g., Infrastructure as Code (IaC)) for managing cloud infrastructure.
- Adheres to change management plans for patching, updating, and rolling back applications.
- Core Responsibilities Planning & Execution:
- Track timelines with minimal supervision, ensuring work is comple