Senior Manager, Core Infrastructure Engineering

Oracle•Nashville, TN

About The Position

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s Network Modeling and Control team builds software that models physical networks and enables their configuration, expansion, and safe operation. Its services turn infrastructure designs into working networks and coordinate changes as AI and cloud infrastructure capacity grows. The team addresses distributed systems challenges involving consistent network state, concurrent changes, partial-failure recovery, and safe infrastructure automation. The Senior Manager, Core Infrastructure Engineering will lead and grow an engineering team delivering distributed services for network modeling, configuration, and lifecycle operations across OCI’s AI and cloud infrastructure. The role combines people leadership, technical judgment, and execution to help bring AI network capacity online efficiently and operate it reliably. The manager partners with senior engineers to set technical direction, translate infrastructure priorities into a roadmap, and create an environment where engineers take ownership, develop expertise, and deliver results. The role owns team priorities and delivery commitments, balances new capabilities with reliability, scalability, security, and maintainability, and guides architectural decisions. It works across network engineering, infrastructure delivery, operations, and adjacent software teams. The manager also leads production ownership and operational performance, including testing, observability, operational readiness, safe rollouts, sustainable on-call practices, and follow-through on incident findings. The position includes hiring, coaching, career development, and clear communication with engineering leadership and partner teams. The U.S. hiring range is $146,300 to $306,400 per annum. The position may be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral. Oracle provides a comprehensive benefits package. Certain U.S.-based or U.S. customer-facing roles may be subject to applicable immunization or occupational health mandates and/or drug testing requirements. U.S.-based employees complete identity verification that involves collection and processing of biometric information; accommodations may be granted following an individualized assessment.

Requirements

Substantial software engineering experience, including experience managing teams that build and operate production services.
A record of delivering complex software initiatives through effective planning, technical judgment, and cross-team collaboration.
Strong understanding of distributed systems, service architecture, reliability, and the software development lifecycle.
Experience hiring, coaching, and developing engineers, including supporting senior technical contributors.
Ability to engage deeply in technical discussions, ask incisive questions, and help teams make sound architectural decisions.
Experience owning production services and improving operational health through engineering investment.
Ability to turn ambiguous business and infrastructure needs into clear priorities and achievable plans.
Strong communication skills and ability to build productive partnerships across organizational boundaries.

Nice To Haves

Experience leading teams building cloud infrastructure, network automation, configuration management, or infrastructure control systems.
Experience with infrastructure software supporting AI/ML platforms, GPU clusters, or large-scale compute environments.
Experience managing services with demanding availability, scalability, and change-safety requirements.
Experience leading delivery across software engineering, physical infrastructure, networking, and operations teams.

Responsibilities

Lead an engineering team responsible for distributed services supporting network modeling, configuration, and lifecycle operations across OCI’s AI and cloud infrastructure.
Own the team’s roadmap, priorities, and delivery commitments while balancing new capabilities with reliability, scalability, security, and maintainability.
Partner with technical leads and principal engineers to evaluate architectural tradeoffs, resolve technical risks, and guide service evolution.
Establish ownership and execution plans for complex projects, manage dependencies, and remove delivery obstacles.
Work with network engineering, infrastructure delivery, operations, and adjacent software teams to align requirements and deliver across service boundaries.
Build a culture of production ownership through effective testing, observability, operational readiness, and safe rollout practices.
Lead operational performance, support sustainable on-call practices, and turn incident findings into lasting engineering improvements.
Hire and develop engineers through feedback, coaching, career planning, and thoughtful delegation.
Foster an inclusive environment where engineers can challenge assumptions, raise risks early, and contribute to decisions.
Communicate progress, tradeoffs, and risks clearly to engineering leadership and partner teams.