Senior Director, Core Infrastructure Engineering - OCI Virtual Networking

Are you passionate about building cloud infrastructure that powers millions of customers? Do you enjoy leading high-performing engineering organizations that design and operate mission-critical distributed systems at massive scale? Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is looking for an experienced engineering leader to drive the strategy, development, and operations of our Tier-0 Virtual Networking and Identity services.

In this role, you will lead multiple engineering teams responsible for core virtual networking Infrastructure services including, authentication and authorization. These highly available, low-latency services are foundational to the OCI control plane and require exceptional reliability, scalability, and operational excellence.

As a Senior Director, you will define the long-term technical vision, influence product strategy, and lead the execution of cloud-scale distributed systems that support Oracle's rapidly growing cloud business. You'll partner closely with Product Management, Security, Networking, and other OCI engineering organizations to deliver innovative capabilities while maintaining the highest standards for availability, security, and customer experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple engineering teams responsible for Tier-0 authentication, authorization, and virtual networking services.
• Define the technical strategy and roadmap for critical OCI infrastructure services in partnership with Product Management.
• Drive the architecture, development, and operation of highly available, secure, and scalable distributed systems.
• Establish engineering best practices that improve service reliability, operational excellence, security, and performance.
• Collaborate across OCI organizations to deliver integrated cloud networking and security solutions.
• Recruit, mentor, and develop engineering managers and senior engineers while building a high-performing engineering culture.
• Influence technical direction and strategic decisions across the broader OCI Networking organization.
• Represent your organization in executive-level planning, architecture reviews, and customer engagements.

Qualifications:

• 15+ years of software engineering experience, including 7+ years leading large engineering organizations.
• 10+ years of designing, delivering, and operating large scale distributed systems in production environments.
• Deep expertise in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, networking, security, and high-availability architectures.
• Demonstrable success mentoring and growing engineers and people managers to senior levels.
• Prior experience in owning and managing SaaS/IaaS services.
• Strong knowledge of security, distributed systems, networking and high-performance computing fundamentals.
• Experience leading organizations with multiple layers of engineering management.
• Demonstrated success developing engineering leaders, scaling organizations, and delivering complex technical programs.
• Exceptional communication, collaboration, and executive leadership skills.
• BS, MS, or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.

Why Oracle Cloud Infrastructure?

OCI is building the next generation of enterprise cloud. Our engineers solve some of the industry's most challenging problems in distributed systems, networking, security, and cloud infrastructure while operating at global scale.

If you're passionate about building foundational cloud services, leading world-class engineering teams, and shaping the future of cloud infrastructure, we'd love to hear from you.

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: $193,600 to $414,400 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.


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.

Career Level - M5

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