Senior Manager, Core Infrastructure Engineering

Oracle•Nashville, TN

10d•$146,300 - $306,400

About The Position

The Senior Manager, Core Infrastructure Engineering manages teams delivering scalable distributed systems and components on a 2–4 quarter horizon. The role standardizes engineering practices and scalability requirements across teams, oversees optimization for high-throughput, hyper-scale workloads, and ensures effective use of distributed state tools and data plane platforms. It guides teams in designing fault-tolerant, in-service-upgradable systems, setting SLO-aligned durability and availability targets, and implementing resiliency mechanisms such as load-shedding, throttling, and rate-limiting. The role provides oversight for KPIs, telemetry, moderately complex dashboards, functional and correctness requirements, fault-injection testing, and replication and synchronization strategies. It ensures proactive incident management, operational readiness, and on-call coverage; drives encryption and access-control practices, remediation plans, and compliance documentation; and oversees automation and Infrastructure as Code. It also partners with teams on change-management plans for safe patching, updates, and rollbacks. The manager oversees multiple medium- to large-scale cross-team initiatives, aligns priorities with business needs, drives cross-functional partnerships, addresses complex technical and operational problems, and supports continuous learning and process improvement. Responsibilities include coaching and performance management, career development, interviewing, and managing talent resources.

Responsibilities

Manage development and implementation of scalable distributed systems and components across multiple teams, including effective use of distributed state management tools.
Oversee code and system optimization for large-scale data processing and high-throughput requirements to support hyper-scale systems.
Guide teams in defining scalability requirements for owned components and ensure design and implementation requirements are met.
Manage use of data plane platforms for large-scale data retrieval, storage, and processing.
Ensure teams accurately design performance and load testing.
Manage strategies for fault-tolerant components and systems that can withstand in-service updates, including redundancy, replication, and automatic failover.
Develop strategies for handling service disruptions, including decisions involving consistency, availability, and partition tolerance.
Lead cross-team implementation and optimization of approaches to network unreliability, including load-shedding, throttling, and rate-limiting.
Guide teams in designing durable systems that meet SLOs and set availability and durability expectations for other departmental computing services.
Oversee definition of KPIs and telemetry to identify gaps or issues in running systems.
Oversee development and customization of moderately complex dashboards, telemetry systems, and alerting mechanisms for proactive monitoring.
Oversee design and implementation of functional and correctness requirements for features and systems.
Guide teams in designing complex test scenarios, including fault-injection and brown-out tests.
Direct implementation strategies for data replication and synchronization to maintain data integrity and availability.
Guide teams in proactively diagnosing, debugging, and resolving issues in active components and systems.
Ensure teams prevent service interruptions and resolve issues without requiring customer or user maintenance windows.
Oversee operational readiness protocols and ensure teams understand their owned components and systems.
Oversee and approve operational support rotation schedules.
Oversee security measures for multi-tenant environments, including encryption and access controls.
Direct execution of remediation plans for identified security gaps.
Ensure comprehensive documentation and cloud infrastructure compliance with industry standards and regulations.
Oversee development and maintenance of automation scripts and tools, including Infrastructure as Code, for cloud infrastructure.
Work with teams on change-management plans for patching, updating, and rolling back applications, and guide development of components that enable automation of these processes.
Manage multiple medium- to large-scale projects or initiatives across teams, monitoring timelines, deliverables, and budgets when applicable.
Set team priorities and align project work with business needs; guide adjustments to plans when resources or timelines change.
Drive cross-functional partnerships and coach team members in building relationships with business leaders, stakeholders, and external partners.
Promote inclusivity by seeking and listening to diverse perspectives.
Direct teams in addressing complex operational and technical issues and analyzing complex data to identify solutions.
Review unresolved or critical issues and help teams identify potential solutions.
Model continuous learning, use feedback to improve skills, identify team skill gaps, and enable learning and knowledge sharing.
Drive collaboration and implementation of improvements to processes, protocols, and workflows, and encourage alternative approaches and feedback.
Provide performance feedback and coaching, discuss development goals, and align individual goals with organizational goals.
Develop and manage the talent acquisition pipeline, including candidate interviews, promotion eligibility monitoring, and talent resource coordination.