Senior Manager, Cloud Solutions Engineer — Forward Deployed Engineering

Oracle•Reston, VA

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Oracle Government, Defense & Intelligence is seeking a Senior Manager, Cloud Solutions Engineering to lead Principal and Master Principal Cloud Architects serving 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 builds and develops the team, guides technical execution, and is accountable for delivery across customer engagements, combining people leadership, technical judgment, and customer partnership to help engineers deliver secure, resilient, production-ready systems that customers can operate, sustain, and expand. The position requires the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI with Poly and experience supporting or working within the U.S. Intelligence Community. It is hybrid, involving remote work, in-office work, and meetings at the client site. Candidates must be based in the greater Washington, DC area. On-site customer engagement and travel may be required. The manager leads and develops experienced cloud architects and infrastructure engineers, owns delivery across embedded customer engagements, provides technical leadership, and builds partnerships with customer stakeholders and Oracle teams. Success is measured by team development, delivery quality, operational readiness, customer adoption, and mission impact.

Requirements

Must possess or have the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI with Poly.
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 across technical and executive audiences.
Ability to support on-site customer engagements and travel as required.
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.

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.

Responsibilities

Recruit, coach, retain, and develop 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 feedback, goals, and development plans.
Assign engineers to engagements based on mission needs, technical expertise, clearance requirements, and team capacity.
Build a collaborative engineering culture that promotes accountability, sound judgment, knowledge sharing, and continuous learning.
Lead a portfolio of embedded Forward Deployed Engineering engagements and partner with customer stakeholders and engineers to define scope, priorities, milestones, dependencies, and measurable success criteria.
Guide delivery across 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 hands-on 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.