Senior Manager, Core Infrastructure Engineering

Job Description

As the Senior Manager in OCI, you will provide leadership to a dedicated team tasked with overseeing the end-to-end lifecycle of infrastructure projects within OCI. Your role will involve ensuring that the team's objectives are consistently aligned with the broader organizational goals, maintaining a strategic focus on long-term infrastructure stability and scalability. By fostering a high-performance culture, you will mentor and develop team members, creating an environment that encourages continuous learning and professional growth.

In addition to your leadership duties, you will play a pivotal role in talent development within the team. You will lead by example in identifying and nurturing talent, engaging in regular career development discussions, and offering strategic guidance to support the professional growth of each team member. Your commitment to promoting excellence will ensure that team members have access to opportunities for advancement, while your advocacy for OCI values will instill a sense of purpose and commitment throughout the team.

In terms of performance management, you will establish clear, measurable goals for both individual team members and the broader team, ensuring that these objectives are aligned with OCI's strategy. You will implement robust processes to monitor progress, assess performance, and maintain accountability at all levels. Your results-oriented approach will focus on delivering tangible outcomes that contribute to the success of OCI's critical infrastructure initiatives.

As Senior Manager, your decisions will have a direct influence not only on your team but also on associated teams within OCI. The outcomes of your work will play a critical role in the success of critical infrastructure projects, contributing to the overall resilience and growth of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

Qualifications:

• A BS or MS degree in a relevant field, or equivalent experience.
• A minimum of 5 years of experience in people management, with a proven track record in managing large-scale critical service.
• Demonstrated expertise in strategic planning, resource management, and performance optimization within a technology-driven environment.
• Exceptional decision-making abilities, with experience influencing senior leadership and cross-functional teams.
• Strong background in recruiting, developing, and leading senior individual contributors (ICs) and building high-performing teams.
• Ability to make decisions that significantly impact the organization's infrastructure, with potential implications for revenue and long-term operational success.
• Experience in Networking and Cloud Infrastructure Operations.
• Expertise in Network Operating Systems (NOS) and experience working with networking hardware.
• Experience in managing a large scale critical service in a Cloud computing.
• Expertise in Distributed Systems, network monitoring and automation.
• Excellent organizational, verbal, and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

• Manages the development and implementation of scalable systems and components across multiple teams, including the effective use of distributed state management tools.
• Oversees code and/or system optimization efforts for large-scale data processing and high-throughput requirements within and across teams to support hyper-scale systems.
• Guides teams to define scalability requirements for owned components and ensures design and implementation requirements are met.
• Manages the use of data plane platforms to effectively handle large-scale data retrieval, storage, and processing.
• Ensures team accurately designs performance and load testing.
• Provides oversight in defining key performance indicators (KPIs) and telemetry to identify gaps or issues in running systems.
• Oversees the building and customization of moderately complex dashboards, telemetry systems, and alerting mechanisms to proactively monitor components and system health.
• Guides teams to be proactive when diagnosing, debugging, and resolving issues in active components and systems to support ongoing operation.
• Ensures teams leverage expertise to prevent interruptions, ensuring no maintenance windows are required for customers and users when resolving issues.
• Oversees the development and maintenance of automation scripts and tools (e.g., Infrastructure as Code (IaC)) to manage cloud infrastructure.
• Works with teams to create and adhere to change management plans for patching, updating, and rolling back applications, and guides development of components to allow for automation of these processes.

Core Responsibilities

• Manages multiple medium- to large-scale projects or initiatives across teams, ensuring timelines, deliverables, and budgets (when applicable) are monitored and met.
• Provides direction to teams on project work, setting priorities, and aligning with business needs.
• Guides teams on adjusting plans to accommodate resource or timeline changes.
• Drives cross-functional partnerships to align on expectations and shared objectives across multiple teams.
• Coaches team members to develop strategic relationships with business leaders, stakeholders, and external partners to foster collaboration and long-term success.
• Provides direction to multiple teams on addressing complex operational and/or technical issues, as well as guidance on analyzing complex data and/or information to identify solutions.
• Models engaging in continuous learning to deepen expertise and stay ahead of industry trends, integrating best practices into strategic planning.
• Leverages feedback to drive personal and team skill improvements.
• Guides teams to adopt new ideas for alternative approaches and methods and encourages feedback for continued improvement.
• Drives performance across teams by providing feedback and coaching in alignment with performance management processes, guidelines, and expectations.
• Discusses development goals with team members, shares opportunities to facilitate career development, and ensures individual goals are aligned with broader organizational goals.
• Develops and manages talent acquisition pipeline by leading candidate interviews, monitoring promotion eligibility, and/or orchestrating talent resources.

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: $146,300 to $306,400 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.
As part of Oracle's onboarding process and consistent with applicable law, US-based employees are required to complete identity verification, which involves the collection and processing of their biometric information. Accommodations to this requirement may be granted following an individualized assessment.

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