Oracle Operations Manager

Cloudflare • Austin, TX

5d • Onsite

About The Position

The Oracle Operations Manager will work with the Oracle IT team to plan, execute operations, and manage enterprise programs to successful completion. Our large-scale programs span multiple quarters and involve IT, various Business Verticals, and Technical Operations teams across the Oracle ecosystem.
You bring a passion for matching complex business needs with technically innovative solutions, and excel at shifting between high-level strategy and technical execution. You are able to implement and drive standardized Oracle operational methodologies to ensure persistent progress. The ideal candidate is flexible and comfortable playing multiple roles—diplomat, moderator, negotiator, and coach - within a large-scale enterprise environment. Combined with deep technical expertise in cloud operations, you have the ability to build trust and strong partnerships with counterparts in Engineering, Development, and Business units.

Requirements

• Minimum 5 years’ experience in program and project management
• Minimum 3 years proven experience in leading highly complex, enterprise-wide initiatives.
• Proficient in solutions that service global Finance and enterprise business capabilities.
• Strong technical background in cloud operations to facilitate architecture and integration discussions within an Oracle environment.
• Track record of delivering technical programs through the full end to end program management lifecycle, from conception to usability study.
• Have a balance of people, organizational, and technical skills to deliver and guide decision making without authority.
• Work independently in a dynamic and high-pressure environment with timely delivery despite ambiguous and changing business requirements.
• Strong competency with project management tools (Confluence, JIRA, Smartsheets, etc.) and various methodologies (Waterfall, Scrum, etc).
• Proven ability to clearly and concisely communicate with an executive audience in both written and verbal communications in English (writing sample will be requested).
• Thrive in a fast-paced enterprise environment, with the ability to learn and deploy new Oracle technologies quickly.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems Management, Technology management, Business management or comparable work experience.

Nice To Haves

• Direct experience with Oracle implementation and management at an enterprise scale.
• Experience with both waterfall and Agile development methodologies
• PMP/PgMP and Agile certifications
• Familiarity with Oracle-specific governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Build bridges across Oracle business units to ensure programs and projects are effectively planned, developed, and deployed with quality and on-time delivery into our production environments.
• Drive the execution of tasks within cross-functional core teams to ensure the success of large-scale initiatives comprising the Oracle operations portfolio.
• Build transparent communication channels to align enterprise stakeholders, IT, and third-party vendors, ensuring executive audiences receive appropriate updates on program status.
• Manage program scope and execution to committed schedules, maintaining reporting for program deliverables across multiple global business units.
• Ensure adherence to Oracle best practices and accountability throughout the program lifecycle when working with external vendors and partners.
• Manage critical path timelines by proactively identifying risks and facilitating the resolution of blockers to ensure the success of enterprise-tier projects.
• Collaborate on internal processes, tools, and workflows across Oracle functions in support of IT governance and standardized project management methodologies.

Benefits

• We’re not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. We’re a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.
• Project Galileo: Since 2014, we've equipped more than 2,400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work, technology already used by Cloudflare’s enterprise customers--at no cost.
• Athenian Project: In 2017, we created the Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free, so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration. Since the project, we've provided services to more than 425 local government election websites in 33 states.
• 1.1.1.1: We released 1.1.1.1 to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster, more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever released. Here’s the deal - we don’t store client IP addresses never, ever. We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.

What This Job Offers

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