Distinguished Cloud Architect, AI Infrastructure Pursuits

Oracle•United States,

6d•$169,800 - $284,300

About The Position

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is seeking a Master Principal or Distinguished Cloud Architect to join the Strategic Pursuits & Engagements team and help turn OCI’s infrastructure advantages into strategic customer wins. As enterprise AI moves into production, customers must solve two increasingly important problems: continually lower the cost of delivering verified business outcomes and maintain resilient access to the models and capacity required to run their businesses. This creates an opportunity for OCI to differentiate through its infrastructure strengths—including compute and network economics, bare metal, Kubernetes, multicloud connectivity, and distributed cloud. This is a senior, customer-facing technical leadership role. The successful candidate will help refine our strategy through direct market engagement, but their primary responsibility is to execute it with customers: identify opportunities where OCI can create a meaningful advantage, architect the solution, prove the differentiation, and help win the business.

Requirements

Exceptional depth in cloud infrastructure and distributed systems who can apply that experience to the rapidly evolving enterprise AI landscape.
Significant expertise across several of the following: Large-scale cloud and distributed systems architecture, Kubernetes and cloud-native platforms, Compute, networking, and storage architecture, CPU, GPU, and accelerator-based infrastructure, AI/ML infrastructure, inference, and model serving, Multicloud, distributed, sovereign, and edge architectures, High availability and resilient system design, Performance engineering and observability, Cloud economics and FinOps, Security, identity, governance, and policy, Open-source infrastructure and automation.
Experience with modern AI infrastructure technologies—such as Kubernetes, KServe, vLLM, Triton, Ray, LiteLLM, Envoy, Istio, OpenTelemetry, MLflow, Terraform/OpenTofu, AI gateways, and model platforms is highly relevant.
Ability to understand complex systems, identify where infrastructure creates competitive advantage, and translate that advantage into a solution a customer will choose.
Mindset of a principal engineer, field CTO, and pursuit architect.
Starts with the customer’s business outcome rather than the product catalog.
Thinks across the entire system rather than optimizing one component.
Understands economics as well as architecture.
Comfortable with Oracle, open-source, third-party, and competing cloud technologies.
Can build and prove ideas rather than simply present them.
Knows how to win complex technical decisions.

Responsibilities

Lead strategic pursuits.
Serve as a senior technical leader for some of OCI’s most important and complex opportunities, working directly with customer executives, architects, platform teams, and engineers from discovery through technical validation and decision.
Architect differentiated AI infrastructure.
Design production architectures spanning AI inference, Kubernetes, CPUs and GPUs, model serving, intelligent routing, multicloud, distributed cloud, edge, security, observability, and resilient execution across models, providers, regions, and capacity pools.
Turn OCI differentiation into customer value.
Connect OCI capabilities—including network economics, flexible compute, bare metal, multicloud connectivity, and distributed deployment—to measurable improvements in cost, performance, resilience, security, and operational control.
Prove it.
Develop prototypes, benchmarks, demonstrations, and proofs of value that establish why an OCI-based architecture is better for the customer’s workload.
Shape and operationalize the strategy.
Use customer engagements to refine reference architectures, technical positioning, solution playbooks, and pursuit patterns.
Work across OCI engineering, product, sales, partners, and field architecture to turn successful engagements into repeatable motions.
Be the technical authority in the room.
Operate comfortably from executive conversations about business outcomes and economics to deep technical sessions with principal engineers and architects.
Challenge assumptions, navigate ambiguity, and build customer confidence through technical credibility.

Benefits

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