Senior Director, Core Infrastructure Engineering

Oracle•United States,

4d•$193,600 - $414,400

About The Position

The Senior Director, Core Infrastructure Engineering provides strategic leadership for multiple teams or a small group delivering interdependent, hyperscale distributed systems. The role sets direction and governance for architecture, scalability, and performance; sponsors large-scale data-processing optimization; and builds partnerships to define customer-aligned scalability requirements. It oversees elastic design patterns and collaboration on data-plane platforms, and establishes group-wide strategies for fault tolerance, in-service updates, network reliability, system observability, correctness, and availability. The position directs operational readiness, cross-organizational diagnosis and resolution, incident response, security for multi-tenant environments, remediation, compliance documentation, infrastructure automation, and change management for safe patching, updates, and rollbacks. It provides regular communications to executives and strategic oversight of large-scale projects, planning, collaboration, problem-solving, continuous learning and improvement, and organizational performance and talent development.

Responsibilities

Provide strategic oversight of architecture and design for interdependent, scalable distributed systems, including distributed state management tools.
Develop and implement optimization initiatives for code and systems supporting large-scale data processing and high-throughput requirements.
Build strategic partnerships to define system scalability requirements that meet customer expectations.
Oversee elastic system design and promote collaboration and innovation in data-plane platforms.
Set strategies for fault-tolerant systems and in-service updates, including redundancy, replication, and automatic failover.
Guide strategic design choices for handling service disruptions and network partitions, including trade-offs among consistency, availability, and partition tolerance.
Direct strategies for handling network unreliability, including load-shedding, throttling, and rate-limiting.
Promote formal verification and peer reviews, and establish strategies and standards for durable systems that meet service level objectives.
Define KPI and telemetry strategies and direct complex dashboards, telemetry systems, and alerting to monitor system health.
Ensure functional and correctness requirements align with organizational objectives; develop processes for formal verification and direct best practices for data replication and synchronization.
Develop procedures for diagnosing, debugging, and resolving issues in active interdependent systems.
Prevent customer and user maintenance windows when resolving issues; enforce operational readiness protocols and standard operating procedures.
Provide thought leadership for complex incident response and root-cause investigations.
Set security direction for protecting data and applications in multi-tenant environments, including encryption and access controls.
Direct remediation plans for security gaps and develop documentation and cloud infrastructure strategies supporting compliance.
Oversee enterprise-level automation tools and strategies, such as Infrastructure as Code.
Align change-management plans for patching, updating, and rolling back applications, and advance automation of these processes.
Provide strategic oversight of large-scale projects and initiatives, including timelines, deliverables, and budgets when applicable.
Set priorities, delegate work, align projects with business needs, and guide strategic planning and resource or timeline planning.
Set direction for cross-functional collaboration and partnerships with business leaders, stakeholders, and customers; promote teamwork, transparency, and inclusivity.
Develop strategies for advanced problem-solving, serve as an escalation point for complex operational or technical issues, and oversee root-cause analysis and prevention of recurrence.
Champion continuous learning and emerging technical trends, and contribute to organizational learning and development strategy.
Drive continuous improvement, oversee large-scale improvement methods, and set and approve the roadmap of improvement initiatives.
Ensure consistent performance-management and talent-development practices, foster career development, and partner with HR and executive leadership on talent strategy.
Communicate regularly with executives.