Director, Network Engineering (AIOps, Automation)

hackajob is collaborating with Oracle to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role. About the team Director, Network Development role in OCI's Physical Networking org - Platforms for Network Tools & Applications. Description Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is hiring experience engineering leader to lead Automation, Tooling, and AI Platform Engineering. This role will build the platforms, developer tools, and intelligent automation that improve operational reliability, engineering velocity, and customer outcomes at scale. The leader in this role owns the strategy, delivery, and operational health of the Platforms for Network Tools and Applications organization. The organization provides the shared OCI infrastructure, workflow automation platforms, AI execution capabilities, and high-impact software tools that Physical Networking teams use to operate OCI networks safely and at scale. The role leads a distributed engineering organization and works closely with GNOC, NRE, Network Design, GNE, Special Footprints, Security, and OCI platform partners. The leader will convert operational needs into a focused portfolio, build durable platforms that partner teams can use independently, and ensure that critical tooling reaches production across OC1 and restricted realms. Responsibilities Key Responsibilities Set the technical and investment strategy for shared cloud infrastructure, automation, tooling, data platforms, and AI-enabled operational capabilities for Physical Networking. Lead managers and senior engineers across platform and software portfolios. Establish clear ownership, execution discipline, and a strong engineering culture across a geographically distributed team. Deliver a shared OCI hosting model with standard tenancies across realms, access controls, deployment automation, containerization, monitoring, backup and recovery, and production-readiness requirements for partner applications. Build and operate a central AI execution platform with reusable skills, connectors, service accounts, event triggers, scheduling, agent orchestration, governance, and cost visibility. Guide its evolution from pilot capabilities to a production service. Expand workflow engine as service ( from a locally run workflow tool into a cloud-hosted, self-service service available across Physical Networking realms. Prioritize platform features and onboarding rather than building customer-specific workflows for every team. Own a prioritized software and tooling portfolio with partner teams. Direct investments toward high-value outcomes such as vendor maintenance automation, planned TOR replacement coordination, restricted regions tooling parity, and telemetry analytics. Build operating mechanisms for intake, prioritization, architecture review, production readiness, adoption, support, and lifecycle management. Use service and business metrics to make tradeoffs visible and guide investment decisions. Partner with IAM, Security, OCI infrastructure, Network Monitoring, Poseidon, and other AI initiatives to resolve dependencies and ensure secure, scalable, multi-realm delivery. Communicate roadmap progress, resource needs, risks, and decisions clearly to senior leaders and partner organizations. Make staffing plans that balance committed deliveries, platform investment, and operational support. What Success Looks Like Partner-owned applications can onboard to a reliable shared OCI platform without each team recreating infrastructure, security, or deployment patterns. Physical Networking teams use a governed AI platform and self-service workflow service to automate repeatable operational work, with appropriate access controls, scheduling, observability, and cost management. Tooling investments show measurable improvements in engineering hours saved, change-review quality, operational traceability, and risk reduction. OC1 capabilities are extended to DRCC, Government, and Sovereign realms wherever practical, and realm-specific gaps are tracked to closure. The organization has clear portfolio choices, dependable delivery commitments, and the architecture and talent needed to operate critical services in production. Required Qualifications Extensive experience leading software, platform, cloud infrastructure, automation, or developer productivity organizations, including leadership of managers and senior technical leaders. Strong record of defining strategy and delivering multi-quarter platform or product roadmaps that serve multiple engineering customers. Deep technical judgment across cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, APIs, CI/CD, observability, reliability engineering, identity and access management, and secure service operations. Experience building production automation or workflow platforms that balance self-service adoption with governance, reliability, and supportability. Ability to lead AI-enabled engineering initiatives, including LLM integration, agent orchestration, evaluation, security controls, and operational cost management. Demonstrated ability to prioritize a portfolio, manage dependencies, develop talent, and communicate clearly with senior technical and business leaders. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. Preferred Qualifications Experience operating services across multiple cloud regions, realms, or regulated environments. Experience with Kubernetes, OCI services, service onboarding, and platform migration from local or team-owned tooling to managed cloud services. Experience with agentic AI platforms, skills or tool catalogs, connectors, service accounts, event-driven systems, and LLMOps practices. Experience in networking, network operations, change management, or large-scale infrastructure operations. Experience leading organizations that combine platform engineering, product delivery, and operational support responsibilities. 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: $169,800 to $355,400 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 - M4aa415a4b-8b21-40fc-a65c-70d2b25ca29a