Senior Manager, Cloud Adoption Engineering

Oracle • Reston, VA

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

Oracle Government, Defense & Intelligence is seeking a Senior Manager of Cloud Adoption Engineering to lead the function and directly manage individual Cloud Adoption Engineers supporting U.S. Federal Government customers. The role owns the function’s operating model, technical standards, engagement priorities, team development, and performance. The team helps customers establish secure, governed, connected, observable, automated, and operationally ready foundations for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) adoption.

The position combines functional ownership, direct people management, technical leadership, and customer engagement. The Senior Manager translates organizational priorities into an engineering capability that reduces adoption risk, resolves foundational blockers, and accelerates customer time-to-value. The role is hybrid, combining remote work, in-office work, and meetings at client sites; candidates must be based in the greater Washington, DC area. The role requires the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI with Poly clearance and includes 50% domestic and international travel.

Requirements

• Must possess or have the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI with Poly clearance.
• Five or more years of direct people management experience leading technical professionals in cloud engineering, architecture, infrastructure, or delivery.
• Demonstrated experience owning a technical capability, program, or team operating model, including priorities, staffing, standards, and outcomes.
• Extensive experience guiding enterprise cloud adoption, readiness assessments, foundation architecture, and implementation planning.
• Strong technical knowledge of cloud infrastructure, networking, identity, security, observability, automation, and operational readiness.
• Experience assessing application and database portfolios, dependencies, and migration requirements.
• Hands-on experience with OCI, AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and repeatable engineering practices.
• Strong customer discovery, coaching, prioritization, and executive communication skills.
• Knowledge of federal cloud security and compliance requirements and their implications for architecture and readiness.
• At least 7 years of experience with computer applications and tools.
• Ability to travel 50% domestically and internationally.
• Expertise and in-depth knowledge of competitive and industry knowledge in computer applications and tools, system and application design, implementation of advanced product features, project management, solving technical problems with customers in technical environments, and written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills.
• Eight years of experience and expertise communicating technical information through presentations, demonstrations, written communication, and consultative solutioning.

Nice To Haves

• Experience supporting U.S. Federal Government customers.
• Deep OCI expertise across tenancy design, landing zones, hybrid connectivity, identity federation, and security operations integration.
• Experience establishing or scaling a cloud adoption or customer-facing engineering function.
• Familiarity with Oracle applications, databases, middleware, and VMware environments.
• Experience with SIEM/SOC integration, DevOps practices, and cloud cost governance.
• Experience developing technical proficiency frameworks, reusable engineering patterns, and customer engagement toolkits.
• Relevant cloud architecture, networking, security, or automation certifications.
• Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, Math, or Engineering from an accredited university, and/or relevant technical experience.
• Advanced degree in a relevant field of study.
• Three or more years of previous relevant technical management experience with computer applications and tools.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the function’s priorities, operating practices, engagement model, and success measures.
• Establish responsibilities and working relationships with Sales, solution architecture, customer success, professional services, support, delivery partners, and customer technical teams.
• Own engagement intake, technical qualification, prioritization, staffing, and capacity planning.
• Establish standards for discovery, readiness assessment, foundation design, implementation enablement, validation, and operational handoff.
• Maintain a roadmap for improving the function’s capabilities, reusable assets, technical coverage, and customer outcomes.
• Represent Cloud Adoption Engineering in leadership discussions, customer escalations, and cross-functional planning.
• Recruit, onboard, coach, and retain Cloud Adoption Engineers; set goals, assign engagements, manage performance, and support career development.
• Provide feedback on technical judgment, customer communication, deliverable quality, and engagement execution; develop team proficiency and specialist depth across relevant cloud foundation domains.
• Guide engineers through onboarding and customer engagement activities, ensuring agreed scope, accountable owners, stakeholders, success criteria, and deliverables.
• Oversee discovery of customer environments, workload dependencies, technical constraints, governance requirements, and operational responsibilities.
• Ensure readiness assessments document evidence, gaps, risks, recommendations, owners, and target dates; guide workload disposition and migration sequencing recommendations.
• Review engagement progress, resolve blockers, and intervene when technical complexity or customer circumstances require leadership involvement.
• Provide technical oversight across OCI tenancy architecture, landing zones, networking, identity federation, security operations, observability, governance, and automation.
• Lead reviews of significant architecture decisions, design tradeoffs, exceptions, and readiness recommendations; ensure designs address security, resilience, enterprise integration, cost accountability, and operational sustainability.
• Establish repeatable engineering practices using Terraform, OCI Resource Manager, version control, reusable modules, and deployment validation.
• Maintain hands-on technical depth to evaluate designs, review deliverables, and help engineers resolve complex foundational issues.
• Provide implementation teams with actionable technical guidance, sequenced tasks, acceptance criteria, and clear ownership.
• Own and maintain the CAE field toolkit, including intake briefs, discovery workbooks, readiness assessments, architecture decision records, risk registers, and handoff checklists.
• Curate Oracle guidance, reference architectures, training, and labs, and create new material where confirmed gaps exist.
• Ensure critical readiness gaps are resolved or formally accepted by accountable owners with documented risk, and require explicit operational handoffs covering owners, runbooks, support paths, unresolved actions, and responsibilities.
• Keep the function focused on adoption foundations while coordinating application implementation and ongoing operations with appropriate teams; use lessons learned and customer feedback to improve standards and reusable patterns.
• Establish and report measures for readiness progression, blocker resolution, engagement quality, accepted handoffs, engineer proficiency, and customer adoption progress.
• Provide leadership visibility into demand, capacity, delivery risks, and improvement priorities; build relationships with customer technical leaders and executives.
• Connect foundation readiness to faster adoption, reduced implementation risk, and sustainable OCI consumption.

Benefits

• Competitive benefits supporting employees with flexible medical, life insurance, and retirement options.
• Volunteer programs that encourage employees to give back to their communities.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed