At Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), we build the future of the cloud for Enterprises as a diverse team of fellow creators and inventors. We act with the speed and attitude of a start-up, with the scale and customer-focus of the leading enterprise software company in the world.

 Values are OCI’s foundation and how we deliver excellence. We strive for equity, inclusion, and respect for all. We are committed to the greater good in our products and our actions. We are constantly learning and taking opportunities to grow our careers and ourselves. We challenge each other to stretch beyond our past to build our future.

 You are the builder here. You will be part of a team of really smart, motivated, and diverse people and given the autonomy and support to do your best work. It is a dynamic and flexible workplace where you’ll belong and be encouraged.

Role Summary

Reporting to the leader of Region Networking, the candidate serves as the Sr. Director of Infrastructure Engineering. The candidate will be the leader for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s (OCI) physical Infrastructure practice which is charged with engineering how products are fitted, designed, and deployed into our datacenter. The leader will own and drive optics, cabling, hardware qualification, build qualification, rack design, vendor interoperability, vendor quality management and field troubleshooting. The leader will also define and drive our KPIs that measure our time to deploy, rework reduction, resiliency, time to qualify and build engineering quality.

The business leader will adapt business needs into tangible direction for the downstream service teams and provide visibility and needed direction upward to the executives within OCI. You will be the principal leader of your roadmap and long term strategy. In partnership with the other Networking leaders, the candidate will algin our technology and trajectory with Planning, Operations, Automation, and Monitoring. As an ambassador for Networking, the leader will also drive cohesion with OCI services teams and partner with the extended business. 

The leader of this space will be the principal owner of their space helping coach their leaders, program managers and senior technical staff with hands-on guidance and mentorship. The leader will also be well versed in networking technologies, technical trends, business trends, budgeting, long term planning, organizational planning, performance management, and have the ability to run large organizational programs. 

Our bar is high for senior leaders, yet rewarding, as you help shape our network product and serve our growing customer base.

Preferred Qualifications

The candidate will have demonstrable technical depth needed to run this unique space in addition to a strong track record of organizational management and leadership. The candidate should demonstrate 10 years as a technical contributor and leader in addition to having 7 years as a senior business leader. The candidate will lead one of the worlds most talented engineering teams, so you need the ability to challenge, coach, guide and negotiate on many technical facets of your business. 

The candidate will have a college degree in computer science, engineering or a relevant field to demonstrate their ability to lead a highly technical area. Relevant experience with years of service with demonstrable execution may also help qualify the candidate. The leader’s depth will be important to help guide our network into the future. Standards work, regulatory work, demonstrated industry leadership, industry policy generation will also be preferable attributes for this candidate.

A qualified candidate will have had requisite time leading and executing in network engineer/operations, software development, product development and systems deployment. Our leaders don’t watch it happen, we make it happen.

Career Level - M5