Senior Manager, Core Infrastructure Engineering

Oracle•Nashville, TN

About The Position

As a Senior Manager in OCI, you will lead a 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 guide career growth. You will establish measurable goals aligned with OCI strategy, monitor progress, assess performance, and maintain accountability to deliver outcomes that support 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 improvements. The role owns a high-scale, massively distributed cloud service handling billions of transactions and leads a team of senior engineers in delivering a portfolio of OCI initiatives. You will develop and execute a prioritized product and engineering roadmap, manage dependencies with stakeholders across OCI and Oracle, provide executive updates, and monitor service health to address issues before they affect cloud capacity or availability.

Requirements

BS or MS degree in a relevant field, or equivalent experience.
At least 5 years of people-management experience.
Proven track record managing large-scale critical services.
Expertise in distributed systems, messaging domains such as Kafka and RabbitMQ, and the Kubernetes ecosystem.
Ability to identify and recruit strong engineering talent.
Expertise in project management, handling competing priorities, and managing multiple projects.
Ability to sustainably scale systems through tooling and automation.
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

Lead the end-to-end lifecycle of projects for the owned OCI service and align team objectives with organizational goals.
Provide leadership, direction, and strategy for a team of senior engineers.
Own a high-scale, massively distributed cloud service handling billions of transactions.
Manage and deliver a large portfolio of key OCI initiatives.
Develop a prioritized roadmap of products, features, and engineering asks.
Drive delivery of roadmap commitments on time and with high quality.
Coordinate with OCI teams, Oracle Corporation teams, and product management to manage cross-organizational dependencies.
Provide regular updates to executive management.
Monitor the health of services in the OCI fleet and drive solutions before problems affect cloud capacity or availability.
Manage software development tasks involving applications, operating systems, and databases according to design specifications.
Build enhancements within existing software architecture and suggest architectural improvements.
Mentor and develop team members, identify and nurture talent, and support career development.
Establish measurable individual and team goals, monitor progress, assess performance, and maintain accountability.