Director, Core Infrastructure Engineering

Oracle•Austin, TX

13h•$169,800 - $355,400

About The Position

As Director of Core Infrastructure Engineering, you will own the strategy, architecture, execution, and operational health of critical infrastructure services supporting large-scale AI and machine-learning workloads. You will partner across hardware, networking, data-center operations, platform engineering, security, product, and customer-facing organizations. The role combines technical judgment, organizational leadership, and disciplined execution. You will develop engineering leaders, establish clear service ownership, drive architectural alignment, and ensure measurable improvements in infrastructure readiness, fleet health, performance, reliability, security, and customer outcomes. You will guide multiple teams in designing scalable, reliable, correct, secure, and highly available distributed infrastructure systems; operational troubleshooting and incident management; compliance and security; automation and change management; and organizational planning, collaboration, continuous learning, improvement, and talent development.

Responsibilities

Set strategy across teams for architecture and design of interdependent, scalable distributed systems, including distributed state management.
Lead optimization of code and systems for large-scale data processing and high-throughput requirements, and drive effective use of data plane platforms.
Define scalability requirements collaboratively and oversee elastic system designs that meet customer expectations.
Set direction for fault-tolerant systems, including redundancy, replication, automatic failover, and handling network partitions and service disruptions.
Direct approaches for network unreliability, including load shedding, throttling, and rate limiting; hold teams accountable for formal verification and cross-team peer review.
Establish standards for durable systems and service-level objectives, including availability and durability standards for computing services.
Define performance KPIs and telemetry, and direct dashboards, monitoring, and alerting to identify risks and maintain system health.
Ensure systems meet functional and correctness requirements; guide formal verification of complex features and oversee data replication and synchronization for data integrity and availability.
Oversee diagnosis, debugging, resolution, and root-cause investigation of operational issues; direct prevention of interruptions and align operational-readiness protocols and standard operating procedures.
Guide security architecture for multi-tenant environments, including encryption and access controls; oversee remediation of security gaps and documentation of compliance with industry standards and regulations.
Guide infrastructure automation, including scripts and Infrastructure as Code, and align change-management plans for patching, updates, and rollbacks.
Oversee complex projects and initiatives across teams, including timelines, deliverables, and budgets when applicable; delegate work, set priorities, and adjust resources or timelines as business needs change.
Lead cross-functional collaboration and empower teams to partner with business leaders, stakeholders, and customers; promote transparency and inclusion of diverse perspectives.
Share problem-solving strategies, guide analysis of complex and ambiguous issues, and direct root-cause identification to prevent recurrence.
Maintain strategic expertise, create learning opportunities, identify skill gaps, and evaluate learning strategies across the organization.
Empower teams to improve processes, protocols, and workflows; obtain feedback and buy-in, and prioritize improvement roadmaps for strategic alignment and return on investment.
Coach and develop performance across teams, align individual development goals with organizational priorities, apply talent-development procedures consistently, and partner with HR on hiring and promotions.