Senior Manager, Core Infrastructure Engineering

Oracle•Nashville, TN

6d•$146,300 - $306,400

About The Position

As a Senior Manager in OCI, you will lead a dedicated team overseeing the end-to-end lifecycle of projects for the service you own. You will align team objectives with organizational goals while maintaining a strategic focus on long-term stability, scalability, and support for new product intake. You will foster a high-performance culture, mentor and develop team members, identify and nurture talent, and provide career-development guidance and opportunities for advancement. You will establish measurable goals aligned with OCI strategy, monitor progress, assess performance, and maintain accountability to deliver outcomes for critical infrastructure initiatives. As a manager in the software engineering division, you will apply software architecture knowledge to manage development tasks involving software applications, operating systems, and databases, according to design specifications. You will build enhancements within existing architecture and suggest architectural improvements. The role owns a high-scale, massively distributed cloud service handling billions of transactions; leads senior engineers; manages a portfolio of OCI initiatives; and drives roadmap delivery and service health. You will work across teams and with product management, manage dependencies, and provide executive updates. Oracle's US hiring range for the stated locations is $146,300 to $306,400 per annum. The position may be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral. Oracle US benefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance; disability and life insurance; flexible spending accounts; commuter and parking benefits; a 401(k) plan with company match; paid time off, holidays, sick leave, and parental leave; adoption assistance; an employee stock purchase plan; financial planning and group legal services; and voluntary auto, homeowner, and pet insurance.

Requirements

BS or MS degree in a relevant field, or equivalent experience.
At least 5 years of people-management experience, with a proven track record managing large-scale critical services.
Demonstrated expertise in distributed systems, messaging domains such as Kafka and RabbitMQ, and the Kubernetes ecosystem.
Demonstrated ability to identify and recruit very strong engineering talent.
Demonstrated expertise in project management, handling competing priorities, and managing multiple projects.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present complex information clearly and concisely to audiences including senior leadership.
Results-driven approach and ability to thrive in an agile, collaborative, startup-mode development environment, including amid ambiguity and competing priorities.

Responsibilities

Oversee the end-to-end lifecycle of projects for the owned OCI service and align team objectives with broader organizational goals.
Maintain a strategic focus on long-term service stability, scalability, and support for new product intake.
Mentor and develop team members, identify and nurture talent, hold career-development discussions, and provide strategic career guidance.
Establish measurable individual and team goals aligned with OCI strategy; monitor progress, assess performance, and maintain accountability.
Apply software architecture knowledge to manage software development tasks involving applications, operating systems, and databases according to design specifications.
Build enhancements within existing software architecture and suggest architectural improvements.
Own a high-scale, massively distributed cloud-scale service handling billions of transactions.
Provide leadership, direction, and strategy for a team of senior engineers.
Manage and deliver a large portfolio of key OCI initiatives.
Develop a prioritized roadmap of products, features, and engineering asks.
Drive roadmap commitments to completion on time and with high quality.
Coordinate with OCI teams, Oracle corporate teams, and product management to manage cross-organizational dependencies.
Provide regular updates to executive management.
Monitor service health across the OCI fleet and drive solutions before issues affect cloud capacity or availability.
Sustainably scale systems through tooling and automation.
Identify and recruit strong engineering talent.