Senior Director, Core Infrastructure Engineering

role Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is building the next generation of hyperscale cloud infrastructure. As part of our continued investment in cloud storage, we are creating a new leadership organization responsible for defining the hardware platform that powers OCI Storage for years to come.

Job Description About the role Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is building the next generation of hyperscale cloud infrastructure. As part of our continued investment in cloud storage, we are creating a new leadership organization responsible for defining the hardware platform that powers OCI Storage for years to come. This newly created Senior Director leadership role will build and lead the Storage Media Layer organization, owning the strategy, engineering, qualification, vendor partnerships, and lifecycle management of the physical storage technologies deployed across OCI's global infrastructure. This is a unique opportunity to build an organization from the ground up while influencing billions of dollars of infrastructure investment and the future architecture of one of the world's largest cloud platforms.

About The Business Oracle is a global leader in cloud infrastructure, enterprise applications, and mission-critical technology solutions that power governments, enterprises, and institutions worldwide. Oracle’s technologies support some of the world’s most sensitive workloads across healthcare, financial services, telecommunications, defense, manufacturing, and public sector environments.

The opportunity This leader will establish and lead a new engineering organization responsible for the storage media strategy supporting OCI Storage. This organization will own the physical storage platform—including media selection and strategy, vendor partnerships, qualification, validation, reliability, and next-generation technology adoption. The organization will be built from scratch and will include engineering leaders across platform software, media qualification, test automation, vendor engineering, and operational support. The leader will remain close to technology while operating at executive scale, partnering with storage engineering, silicon engineering, supply chain, and executive leadership to define OCI's long-term storage hardware roadmap.

Responsibilities What you’ll do Define OCI's Storage Hardware Strategy Lead the long-term strategy and execution for the platforms powering OCI Storage. Responsibilities include: Defining multi-year storage hardware and media roadmaps; Evaluating emerging storage technologies and architectures; Driving hardware platform standardization across OCI; Balancing performance, reliability, density, power efficiency, and total cost of ownership; Partnering with software engineering teams to optimize hardware/software integration.

Build and Lead a New Engineering Organization Build and scale a world-class engineering organization responsible for the storage hardware.

Responsibilities include building teams focused on

Low-level platform software

Firmware integration

Storage qualification

Test automation

Hardware validation

Media reliability

Platform support engineering

Vendor co-design

Own Hardware Platform Engineering Lead the engineering of storage platforms deployed throughout OCI.

Areas include

Media and related technologies (SSD, HDD, SMR, CMR, SATA, etc.)

Storage controllers

PCIe infrastructure

Hardware qualification

Platform validation

Manufacturing readiness

Deployment engineering

Fleet telemetry

Drive Low-Level Platform Software Partner closely with hardware and silicon teams on software operating near the hardware layer.

Areas include

Storage firmware integration

Hardware enablement

Platform diagnostics

Validation tooling

Performance optimization

Candidates should be comfortable leading organizations that bridge hardware and low-level systems software.

Lead Strategic Supplier Relationships

Own executive technical relationships with leading storage technology vendors

Responsibilities include

Technology roadmap alignment

Hardware qualification

Firmware collaboration

Supply planning

Product evaluations

Escalation management

Joint engineering initiatives

Own Storage Media Reliability Establish engineering processes ensuring long-term reliability across OCI's global storage fleet.

Responsibilities include

SSD lifecycle management

Media qualification

Failure analysis

Fleet health monitoring

Reliability engineering

Predictive failure analytics

Vendor corrective actions

Hardware quality metrics

Lead evaluation and adoption of next-generation storage technologies including: TLC, QLC and future NAND technologies; Emerging storage media; Computational storage; DPU-enabled storage architectures; CXL-enabled memory technologies; Next-generation storage interconnects; Advanced hardware acceleration.

Partner with executive leadership to define OCI's three-to-seven-year storage platform strategy.

What You’ll Bring We are seeking an executive who combines deep technical credibility with proven experience leading large engineering organizations in hyperscale infrastructure or enterprise storage.

The ideal candidate has

10+ years of engineering leadership experience

Executive leadership experience building and scaling engineering organizations

Deep expertise in storage hardware platforms

Experience spanning hardware, firmware, and low-level platform software

Strong understanding of hyperscale infrastructure architectures

Experience working directly with storage hardware suppliers

Demonstrated success delivering hardware platforms at scale

Experience owning hardware qualification and validation

Strong understanding of storage media technologies

Experience leading engineering managers and senior technical leaders

Education A bachelor’s degree is preferred for this role. An advanced degree is a plus, but not essential.

Equal Opportunity Oracle is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer*. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Oracle will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to applicable law.

Which includes being a United States Affiant

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: $193,600 - $414,400 per year. 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:

Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion

Short term disability and long term disability

Life insurance and AD&D

Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)

Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts

Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits

401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match

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.

11 paid holidays

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.

Paid parental leave

Adoption assistance

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Financial planning and group legal

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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