Senior Director, Core Infrastructure Engineering

Provides strategic leadership for multiple teams or small group delivering interdependent, hyper-scale distributed systems. Sets direction and governance for architecture, scalability, and performance; sponsors code/system optimization programs for large-scale data processing; and forges partnerships to define customer-aligned scalability requirements. Oversees elastic design patterns and drives collaboration and innovation in data plane platforms. Establishes group-wide strategies for fault-tolerance and in-service updates (redundancy, replication, automatic failover), influences partition-aware design choices, and directs approaches for network unreliability (load-shedding, throttling, rate-limiting). Creates KPI and telemetry strategies and directs complex dashboards and alerting to ensure proactive system health. Ensures functional/correctness requirements align to organizational objectives; institutionalizes formal verification and best practices for replication/synchronization. Develops procedures for cross-org diagnosis and resolution, eliminates customer maintenance windows, enforces operational readiness and SOPs, and provides thought leadership for high-severity incidents and RCAs. Sets security direction for multi-tenant protections (encryption, access controls), drives remediation programs and compliance documentation, and oversees automation (IaC) and contributes to organization-wide change management for safe, automated patching, updates, and rollbacks. Regular communications with executives.

Key Responsibilities

System Design & Architecture – System Scalability:

• Provides strategic oversight of the department for the architecture and design of interdependent scalable distributed systems, including the use of distributed state management tools, ensuring strategies support organizational and system demands.
• Develops and implements processes for code and/or system optimization initiatives for large-scale data processing and high-throughput requirements, supporting hyper-scale systems and driving innovation that impacts the entire organization.
• Develops strategic partnerships that help identify and 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 collaboration and innovation in the use of data plane platforms.

System Design & Architecture – System Reliability Design:

• Provides direction for developing and implementing strategies related to building fault-tolerant interdependent systems capable of withstanding in-service updates, ensuring redundancy, replication, and automatic failover mechanisms are implemented across the organization.
• Influences design at a strategic level for systems to effectively handle service disruptions (e.g., network partitions) by prioritizing consistency, availability, or partition tolerance.
• Leads and optimizes strategic implementation approaches for handling network unreliability, including directing strategies for load-shedding, throttling, and rate-limiting.
• Drives the use of formal verification techniques to verify system designs and conduct peer reviews across the organization.
• Develops strategies for the design of interdependent systems that are durable and adhere to service level objectives (SLOs), driving standards for availability and durability of other computing services across the organization.

System Design & Architecture – System Reliability Performance:

• Creates 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 the organization.

System Design & Architecture – Correctness / Availability:

• Ensures that functional and correctness requirements align with organizational objectives, and drives the identification of improvement opportunities across the organization.
• Develops strategically aligned processes for formally verifying complex features to ensure system design correctness.
• Directs and identifies best practices for the implementation of data replication and synchronization techniques, ensuring data integrity and availability across the organization.

Operational Troubleshooting & Incident Management:

• Develops procedural strategies for diagnosing, debugging, and resolving issues in active interdependent systems across the organization, aligning initiatives with organizational objectives for ongoing operations.
• Drives strategies across the organization to prevent interruptions, ensuring no maintenance windows are required for customers and users when resolving issues.
• Drives alignment and holds teams accountable across the organization for following operational readiness protocol and standard operating procedures.
• Provides thought leadership to the department for highly complex incident response and root cause investigations.

Compliance & Security:

• Provides strategic direction in designing robust security measures to protect data and applications in multi-tenant environments, developing strategies for implementing encryption techniques and access controls.
• Provides strategic direction for the execution of remediation plans to address identified security gaps, ensuring ongoing improvement of security measures across the organization.
• Develops documentation and cloud infrastructure strategies to ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations.

Automation & Change Management:

• Oversees the development and maintenance of enterprise-level automation tools and strategies (e.g., Infrastructure as Code (IaC)).
• Drives strategic alignment of change management plans across the organization for patching, updating, and rolling back applications, and drives innovation in the design of systems that allow for automation of these processes.

Core Responsibilities

Planning & Execution:

• Provides strategic oversight on the management and execution of large-scale projects or initiatives, monitoring timelines, deliverables, and budgets (when applicable) to ensure success.
• Sets strategies for appropriately delegating work, setting priorities, and aligning projects with business needs.
• Drives the strategic planning process across teams, providing guidance on resources or timelines in anticipation of changes.

Collaboration & Partnership:

• Sets a strategic direction for collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment of expectations and strategic objectives.
• Drives a culture of teamwork, empowering teams to build and maintain partnerships with business leaders, stakeholders, and/or customers to contribute to organizational success.
• Promotes a culture of transparency and inclusivity where all voices are valued and respected.

Problem Solving:

• Develops and implements strategies for specialized, advanced problem-solving efforts across the organization, serving as an escalation point for highly complex operational and/or technical issues.
• Oversees teams leveraging innovative techniques to address significant ambiguous issues, identify root causes, and prevent recurrence, reviewing solutions as needed.

Continuous Learning:

• Champions continuous learning to maintain cutting-edge skills and influence organizational best practices.
• Inspires teams to build and maintain expertise in relevant areas by proactively monitoring emerging trends, technologies, and industry standards to help position the organization as an industry leader.
• Contributes to the organization’s strategy for learning and development, influencing leadership to foster learning opportunities for the team.

Continuous Improvement:

• Drives a culture of continuous improvement that sets a standard for efficient and effective processes, protocols, and workflows across the organization.
• Oversees work to implement large-scale approaches and methods for continued improvement, ensuring changes align with organizational goals.
• Sets the strategic direction, prioritizes, and approves the roadmap of improvement initiatives to maximize return on investments.

Performance and Development:

• Drives and ensures consistent application of performance management strategies, systems, processes, and guidelines across the organization.
• Creates an organizational culture of career development that encourages proactively identifying and pursuing career development opportunities, and guiding leaders to support their team’s growth.
• Drives consistency in the application of talent development procedures and socializes performance expectations across the organization.
• Partners with HR and executive leadership to envision and execute a talent management strategy, balancing budget and talent resources.

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

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