customers running some of the world’s largest and most demanding AI and machine-learning workloads. Our teams design, build, deploy, operate, and continuously optimize large-scale GPU environments where reliability, performance, security, and delivery speed are critical.
As Director of Core Infrastructure Engineering, you will own the strategy, architecture, execution, and operational health of critical infrastructure services while partnering across hardware, networking, data-center operations, platform engineering, security, product, and customer-facing organizations.
This role requires a leader who combines deep technical judgment with organizational leadership and disciplined execution. You will develop engineering leaders, establish clear ownership across services, drive architectural alignment, and ensure that teams deliver measurable improvements in infrastructure readiness, fleet health, performance, reliability, security, and customer outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
System Design & Architecture – System Scalability:
- Implements strategies across multiple teams or groups for the architecture and design of interdependent scalable distributed systems, including the use of distributed state management tools, ensuring organizational and system demands are met.
- Spearheads code and/or system optimization initiatives for large-scale data processing and high-throughput requirements across multiple areas, driving improvements that support hyper-scale systems.
- Facilitates collaborations to define system scalability requirements, ensuring the defined requirements meet customer expectations.
- Oversees the design of interdependent systems to scale with elasticity (e.g., effectively scaling both up and down).
- Drives the effective use and implementation of data plane platforms for large-scale data operations.
System Design & Architecture – System Reliability Design:
- Provides strategic oversight for the architecture of fault-tolerant interdependent systems capable of withstanding in-service updates by overseeing implementation across teams of redundancy, replication, and automatic failover mechanisms.
- Influences and sets direction for designing systems to effectively handle service disruptions (e.g., network partitions) by prioritizing consistency, availability, or partition tolerance.
- Leads strategic optimization initiatives for handling network unreliability, including directing the design of load-shedding, throttling, and rate-limiting techniques.
- Holds teams accountable for leveraging formal verification techniques to verify system designs and conduct peer reviews across teams.
- Drives the design of systems that are durable and adhere to service level objectives (SLOs), developing standards for availability and durability of other computing services across the department.
System Design & Architecture – System Reliability Performance:
- Drives strategies for defining key performance indicators (KPIs) and telemetry to identify risks, gaps, or cyclical dependencies in running systems, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.
- Directs the creation and customization of complex dashboards, telemetry systems, and alerting mechanisms that proactively monitor and ensure optimal system health across teams.
System Design & Architecture – Correctness / Availability:
- Implements strategies to effectively determine if systems are meeting functional and correctness requirements, and encourages teams to identify improvement opportunities.
- Provides thought leadership on processes for formally verifying complex features to ensure system design correctness.
- Oversees the implementation of data replication and synchronization techniques, ensuring data integrity and availability across the organization.
Operational Troubleshooting & Incident Management:
- Provides strategic oversight for diagnosing, debugging, and resolving issues in active systems to support ongoing operation.
- Directs strategies within teams to prevent interruptions, ensuring no maintenance windows are required for customers and users when resolving issues.
- Drives alignment across teams for operational readiness protocol and standard operating procedures.
- Provides expert guidance for complex incident response and root cause investigations.
Compliance & Security:
- Provides strategic guidance in architecting robust security measures to protect data and applications in multi-tenant environments, ensuring encryption techniques and access controls are implemented.
- Oversees execution of remediation plans to address identified security gaps, promoting significant improvements and continuous advancement of security measures.
- Drives documentation efforts and ensures cloud infrastructure compliance with industry standards and regulations.
Automation & Change Management:
- Provides strategic guidance across teams on developing and maintaining automation scripts and tools (e.g., Infrastructure as Code (IaC)) to manage cloud infrastructure.
- Drives strategic alignment of change management plans for patching, updating, and rolling back applications, and oversees that system designs allow for automation of these processes.
Core Responsibilities
Planning & Execution:
- Oversees and guides multiple teams on managing complex projects or initiatives, monitoring timelines, deliverables, and budgets (when applicable) to ensure strategic objectives are met.
- Serves as a role model for appropriately delegating work, setting priorities, and ensuring alignment with business needs.
- Coaches others on adjusting resources or project timelines in anticipation of business changes.
Collaboration & Partnership:
- Role models leading cross-functional collaborative efforts to ensure alignment of expectations and strategic objectives.
- Empowers teams to build and maintain partnerships with business leaders, stakeholders, and/or customers to address barriers and contribute to organizational success.
- Drives transparency and inclusivity by modeling actively seeking, listening to, and leveraging diverse perspectives.
Problem Solving:
- Shares problem-solving strategies across teams, providing oversight on complex operational and/or technical issues, as needed.
- Coaches teams on analyzing highly complex data and/or information to identify solutions to ambiguous issues.
- Provides direction on identifying root causes to prevent recurrence of issues.
Continuous Learning:
- Pursues strategic learning opportunities to maintain expertise and apply best practices at the organizational level.
- Creates opportunities for team members and leaders to build their expertise in new areas, coaching them to build innovative skills.
- Identifies skill gap trends across the organization and upholds a culture that places significant emphasis on sharing knowledge and pursuing learning opportunities that advance the organization.
- Evaluates the efficiency of learning strategies and recommends adjustments as needed.
Continuous Improvement:
- Empowers teams to own the development and implementation of ideas that increase the efficiency and effectiveness of processes, protocols, and workflows across the department.
- Coaches teams to gain buy-in for ideas and to seek feedback on approaches and methods for continued improvement.
- Prioritizes and reviews the roadmap of improvement initiatives to ensure alignment with strategic direction and maximize return on investments.
Performance and Development:
- Serves as a role model for driving performance across teams through tailored feedback and coaching in alignment with performance management processes, guidelines, and expectations.
- Drives consistency in the application of talent development procedures and socializes performance expectations across the organization.
- Ensures that individual development goals are aligned with organizational strategic initiatives.
- Collaborates with HR to implement talent strategy through hiring and promotion processes.
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:
- 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
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