Lead Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer

Oracle•Nashville, TN

44d•$146,300 - $306,400

About The Position

This position is for an experienced data center architect who will address complex infrastructure challenges across sites, campuses, and colocation facilities. The role enables high-density AI deployments through site selection, capacity planning, power and cooling design, connectivity planning, and multi-site readiness assessments. The position requires coordinating across facilities, network, storage, colocation, hardware, software, and business teams, and communicating architectural decisions, risks, commitments, and tradeoffs to technical and executive stakeholders.

Requirements

Strong knowledge of modern data center and campus architecture, including power, cooling, networking, storage connectivity, physical infrastructure, colocation considerations, and operational resiliency.
Experience developing AI infrastructure deployment strategies across sites, campuses, or colocation environments.
Ability to evaluate site and data-hall constraints, including physical layout, rack placement, power availability, cooling capacity, density limits, and serviceability.
Experience with capacity planning and rack-power modeling for high-density AI infrastructure.
Strong understanding of high-performance networking, scale-out connectivity, and storage-related network demand for AI environments.
Ability to develop flexible infrastructure options and late-binding strategies as technology, capacity, and customer requirements evolve.
Strong communication skills, including the ability to explain architectural decisions, deployment risks, customer commitments, and tradeoffs to technical and executive stakeholders.
Ability to coordinate effectively across facilities, network, storage, colocation, hardware, software, and business teams.

Nice To Haves

8+ years of experience in data center architecture, infrastructure engineering, capacity planning, or large-scale cloud infrastructure deployment.
Experience with AI labs, high-density AI infrastructure, HPC environments, or large-scale cloud campuses.
Experience with site selection, colocation evaluation, campus planning, and data-hall layout optimization.
Experience with power and cooling design, power capping, thermal assessment, densification, and infrastructure lifecycle planning.
Experience evaluating multi-site deployment readiness and managing platform or capacity pivots.
Familiarity with accelerator platform requirements and their implications for power, cooling, networking, storage, and facility design.

Responsibilities

Develop AI infrastructure deployment strategies across sites, campuses, or colocation environments.
Evaluate site and data-hall constraints, including physical layout, rack placement, power availability, cooling capacity, density limits, and serviceability.
Perform capacity planning and rack-power modeling for high-density AI infrastructure.
Plan for high-performance networking, scale-out connectivity, and storage-related network demand in AI environments.
Develop flexible infrastructure options and late-binding strategies as technology, capacity, and customer requirements evolve.
Coordinate across facilities, network, storage, colocation, hardware, software, and business teams.
Articulate architectural decisions, deployment risks, customer commitments, and tradeoffs to technical and executive stakeholders.
Assess multi-site deployment readiness and manage platform or capacity pivots.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion.
Short-term and long-term disability coverage.
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 or accrued paid vacation, depending on employee eligibility and position.
11 paid holidays.
Paid sick leave: 72 hours upon hire, refreshing 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.
Potential eligibility for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.