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Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer

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$114,600–$234,600Nashville, TNPrincipal

Architect and deploy large-scale GPU, HPC, and AI infrastructure on OCI using Terraform, Ansible, Slurm, Kubernetes, and automation frameworks.

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At a glance

Posted base pay

$115K–$235KBelow the median

The work

Integrates and configures it

Balance

  1. Mostly building
  2. Mixed
  3. Mostly pre-sales or support

Project stages

  1. Pre-sales
  2. Proof of concept
  3. Implementation
  4. Operations
Coding
Writes production code
Builds for
Both
Level
Staff+
Role
Technical lead

What they ask for

Experience

  • 5+ yearsArchitecture, Operations, and/or System Engineering
  • 5+ yearsConsulting and interacting with customers, including architects and C-level stakeholdersPreferred

Background

  • Software engineering
  • Consulting

Tools

  • GPU
  • HPC
  • Terraform
  • Ansible
  • Slurm
  • Kubernetes
  • Python
  • Linux
  • Oracle Linux
  • RHEL
  • CentOS
  • Ubuntu

Less common in FDE jobs

  • Who you build for: Both9%
  • Responsibility level: Staff+16%
  • Covers pre-sales24%
  • Company stage: Public30%

Share of US FDE postings that state each fact.

What you’ll do

  • Engage directly with strategic customers to onboard, integrate, and optimize solutions, supporting LLM-based applications, agentic AI, and robotic AI platforms.
  • Build automated solutions for cluster provisioning, infrastructure as code, performance monitoring, and capacity planning.
  • Act as a trusted technical advisor and escalation path, troubleshooting performance and reliability issues and driving root cause analysis.
  • Author SME-level technical collateral and reference architectures, and partner with OCI engineering to influence product direction.

What you’ll bring

  • 5+ years of experience in Architecture, Operations, and/or System Engineering.
  • Recent technical experience designing/deploying infrastructure and HPC (including GPU) or at least one major public cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure, OCI).
  • Experience with scripting and automation using Python, Ansible, Terraform, and/or Kubernetes.
  • Hands-on Linux skills with Oracle Linux/RHEL/CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian, including system administration and shell scripting.

About Oracle

Oracle sells database software, enterprise applications (ERP/HCM/CX), and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to large enterprises and governments.

Public · 5000+ people

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Pay and conditions

Posted pay
$114,600–$234,600
Pay details

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $114,600 to $234,600 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

Location
Nashville, TN
Employment type
Full-time
Experience requirements
  • 5+ years: Architecture, Operations, and/or System Engineering (required)
  • 5+ years: Consulting and interacting with customers, including architects and C-level stakeholders (preferred)

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