Director, Core Infrastructure Engineering - OCI Planning & Capacity

Oracle • Nashville, TN

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is seeking a Director, Core Infrastructure to lead engineering within the OCI Infrastructure Planning and Capacity Management organization. The team builds software solutions for managing infrastructure capacity, sourcing resources, and planning future demand, with work spanning planning and forecasting services, sourcing workflows, process automation, data integration, and operational reporting. Its focus is improving decision quality, increasing operational visibility, and reducing manual effort across engineering, operations, supply chain, and finance.

The Director leads engineering strategy, execution, and operational excellence for systems supporting infrastructure capacity management, sourcing, and demand planning. The role builds and develops a high-performing engineering organization, establishes technical priorities and standards, and ensures delivery aligns with business objectives and operational needs. It oversees new capabilities and improvements to existing systems, guiding architecture, organizational execution, and operational performance while partnering with engineering, operations, finance, and business stakeholders.

The role provides strategic leadership across scalable distributed-system architecture, reliability, performance, correctness, incident management, compliance and security, automation, and change management. It drives cross-team alignment and ensures reliable, scalable solutions meet OCI infrastructure planning and capacity management needs. This position is onsite five days per week in Nashville, Tennessee; it is not remote. Relocation assistance is available.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years of professional experience in software engineering, cloud infrastructure, or enterprise technology.
• 5+ years of engineering leadership experience, including managing engineering managers and senior technical leaders.
• Demonstrated track record leading engineering organizations responsible for mission-critical software systems, infrastructure platforms, or cloud services.
• Experience defining and executing engineering strategy, technical roadmaps, organizational priorities, and operating plans.
• Proven ability to lead complex engineering initiatives involving multiple teams, technical dependencies, and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Strong technical judgment in evaluating architecture decisions, engineering tradeoffs, system scalability, and operational reliability.
• Experience establishing engineering standards, operational processes, and delivery practices that improve organizational execution and service quality.
• Demonstrated ability to recruit, develop, and lead engineering managers and technical talent and build effective organizational structures and leadership capabilities.
• Experience collaborating across engineering, operations, finance, and business organizations to align technology investments and delivery priorities with business needs.
• Strong operational leadership, including experience overseeing production systems, managing technical risks, and driving continuous improvement.
• Excellent executive communication, stakeholder management, and decision-making skills, including communicating technical strategy, progress, risks, and investment tradeoffs.

Nice To Haves

• Engineering leadership experience within a hyperscale cloud infrastructure organization.
• Familiarity with infrastructure capacity planning, demand forecasting, fleet management, hardware lifecycle management, or data center operations.
• Experience leading teams responsible for supply chain systems, infrastructure sourcing, procurement planning, or deployment operations.
• Experience developing or managing software platforms for large-scale operational planning and data-driven decision-making.
• Knowledge of FinOps, CloudOps, operational analytics, infrastructure economics, or cloud resource optimization.
• Experience leading modernization, automation, or scalability initiatives for complex enterprise or cloud infrastructure systems.
• Familiarity with distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, and large-scale data integration platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering strategy, execution, and operational excellence for infrastructure capacity management, sourcing, and demand-planning systems.
• Build and develop a high-performing engineering organization; establish technical priorities, engineering standards, and organizational execution practices.
• Oversee the development of new capabilities and improvements to existing systems, guiding architectural direction and operational performance.
• Lead architecture and design strategies for interdependent, scalable distributed systems, including distributed state management and elastic scaling.
• Drive optimization of large-scale data processing and high-throughput systems, and align teams on scalability requirements that meet customer expectations.
• Oversee effective use and implementation of data-plane platforms for large-scale data operations.
• Guide fault-tolerant architecture, including redundancy, replication, automatic failover, and in-service updates.
• Set direction for system design choices addressing network partitions and consistency, availability, or partition tolerance; lead load-shedding, throttling, and rate-limiting strategies.
• Set expectations for formal verification and peer reviews, and establish department standards for SLO-aligned system availability and durability.
• Define KPI and telemetry strategies and direct the creation of dashboards, monitoring, and alerting to proactively assess system health.
• Ensure systems meet functional and correctness requirements; guide formal verification of complex features and oversee data replication and synchronization.
• Provide strategic oversight for diagnosing and resolving active-system issues, incident response, and root-cause investigations.
• Prevent service interruptions and customer maintenance windows, and align operational-readiness protocols and standard operating procedures across teams.
• Guide security architecture for multi-tenant environments, including encryption and access controls; oversee remediation of security gaps and compliance documentation.
• Guide development and maintenance of infrastructure automation, including Infrastructure as Code, and align change-management plans for patching, updating, and rollback.
• Collaborate with engineering, operations, finance, and business stakeholders to align technology investments, dependencies, and delivery priorities with business needs.
• Recruit, develop, and lead engineering managers and technical talent while building effective organizational structures and leadership capabilities.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion.
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance.
• Life insurance and AD&D.
• Supplemental life insurance for employees, spouses, and children.
• Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts.
• Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits.
• 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match.
• Flexible Vacation for eligible salaried, non-overtime positions; accrued vacation for other eligible employees.
• 11 paid holidays.
• Paid sick leave: 72 hours upon hire, refreshed each calendar year, with unused hours carrying over up to a 112-hour cap.
• Paid parental leave.
• Adoption assistance.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• Financial planning and group legal benefits.
• Voluntary auto, homeowner, and pet insurance.
• Relocation assistance.
• May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director