Senior Manager, Cloud Solutions Engineer — Forward Deployed Engineering

Oracle•Reston, VA

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

Oracle Government, Defense & Intelligence is seeking a Senior Manager, Cloud Solutions Engineer to lead Principal and Master Principal Cloud Architects working as Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) for a U.S. Intelligence Community customer. FDEs embed with dedicated customers to architect, build, deploy, secure, and operationalize Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) solutions. The manager develops the team, guides technical execution, and is accountable for delivery across customer engagements. The role combines people leadership, technical judgment, and customer partnership to turn complex mission requirements into secure, resilient, production-ready systems that customers can operate, sustain, and expand. The position is hybrid, combining remote work, in-office work, and meetings at the client site. Candidates must be based in the greater Washington, DC area. The role requires possessing or being able to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI with Poly clearance. Travel is required as needed; the qualifications section specifies ability to travel 50% internationally and domestically.

Requirements

Must possess or have the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI with Poly clearance.
Experience supporting or working within the U.S. Intelligence Community.
Five or more years managing technical teams in cloud engineering, infrastructure, architecture, or closely related disciplines.
Demonstrated success leading senior technical professionals and managing complex customer engagements.
Strong hands-on background in cloud architecture, infrastructure engineering, and production operations.
Experience guiding solutions from initial requirements and architecture through deployment, operational adoption, and transition.
Knowledge of secure, highly available cloud environments, including networking, identity, security, observability, and disaster recovery.
Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and automation technologies such as Terraform, OCI Resource Manager, Ansible, Python, or Shell.
Strong prioritization, problem-solving, and communication skills with technical and executive audiences.
Ability to support on-site customer engagements and travel as required.
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
Minimum qualifications also specify seven years of experience with computer applications and tools.
Ability to travel 50% internationally and domestically.
The qualifications section lists expertise in 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, verbal, and interpersonal communication.
The qualifications section specifies eight years of experience and expertise clearly communicating technical information through presentations, demonstrations, written communication, and consultative solutioning.

Nice To Haves

Advanced degree in Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
Experience leading embedded engineering teams or sustained technical delivery within government customer environments.
Deep OCI experience and OCI Architect Associate or Professional certification.
Experience with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
Expertise in Kubernetes, container platforms, and cloud-native modernization.
Familiarity with government security accreditation and compliance processes.
Experience translating field requirements into product improvements and reusable engineering capabilities.
The qualifications section lists a Bachelor of Science-level degree in Computer Science, Math, or Engineering from an accredited university and/or seven years of relevant technical experience.
Advanced degree in a relevant field is highly desirable.
Three or more years of previous relevant technical management experience with computer applications and tools.

Responsibilities

Recruit, coach, and retain experienced cloud architects and infrastructure engineers supporting mission-critical customer environments.
Set expectations for technical quality, customer engagement, delivery ownership, and professional growth.
Manage performance and career development through regular feedback, goals, and individual development plans.
Assign engineers to engagements based on mission needs, expertise, clearance requirements, and team capacity.
Build a collaborative engineering culture that encourages accountability, sound judgment, knowledge sharing, and continuous learning.
Lead a portfolio of embedded FDE engagements, with each engineer focused on a dedicated customer.
Work with customer stakeholders and engineers to establish scope, priorities, milestones, dependencies, and measurable success criteria.
Guide execution through architecture, build, deployment, hardening, operations, and transition.
Monitor delivery health, identify risks, resolve resource constraints, and coordinate support across Oracle.
Serve as a management escalation point for complex technical issues, delivery challenges, and customer concerns.
Ensure engagements include documentation, knowledge transfer, operational readiness, and clear ownership for ongoing support.
Review solution architectures and implementation approaches for security, scalability, resilience, performance, and operational sustainability.
Guide engineering across OCI compute, networking, identity, storage, databases, Kubernetes, security, and observability services.
Establish engineering standards for Infrastructure-as-Code, automation, source control, testing, deployment, and change management in customer environments.
Maintain technical depth to evaluate designs, challenge assumptions, and assist with complex implementation and troubleshooting.
Help mature pilot deployments into production systems aligned with customer security and accreditation requirements.
Promote reusable automation, deployment patterns, and technical guidance where customer security and information-sharing requirements permit.
Build trusted relationships with customer technical leaders, operators, and mission stakeholders.
Translate mission priorities into engineering plans and communicate progress, risks, and decisions to technical and executive audiences.
Collaborate with Oracle product engineering, support, security, consulting, and account teams to address customer needs and remove delivery barriers.
Coordinate responsibilities across FDEs and other Oracle teams to establish clear delivery and support ownership.
Capture field experience and communicate product gaps, recurring issues, and enhancement opportunities to Oracle engineering leadership.
Support sustainable OCI adoption and consumption by ensuring deployed solutions deliver measurable customer value.
Develop engineers, recognize individual contributions, and help build future technical leaders.
Travel and support on-site customer engagements as required.