Senior Manager - Core Infrastructure Engineering

We are building a new OCI Performance team and seeking an engineering leader to build and grow the organization from the ground up. This leader will define performance and availability KPIs, drive efficiency across OCI services, and lead the development of new services and tools that enable OCI’s next-generation cloud capabilities across diverse environments.

Manages teams delivering scalable, resilient distributed systems across a 2–4 quarter horizon. Establishes engineering standards for scalability, performance, SLOs, observability, and fault tolerance while overseeing operational readiness and incident management. Drives security, compliance, IaC, automation, and change management to enable reliable, high-performance cloud services at scale.

Disclaimer:

Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $146,300 to $306,400 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.


Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.
Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:
1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
2. Short term disability and long term disability
3. Life insurance and AD&D
4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
8. Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
9. 11 paid holidays
10. Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
11. Paid parental leave
12. Adoption assistance
13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan
14. Financial planning and group legal
15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.

Career Level - M3

Key Responsibilities

System Design & Architecture

• Manage delivery of scalable, high-performance distributed systems across multiple teams, leveraging distributed state management and data-plane platforms.
• Establish scalability requirements and oversee optimization and performance/load testing for hyperscale workloads.
• Guide design of fault-tolerant, highly available systems using redundancy, replication, failover, and resilience mechanisms.
• Establish SLOs, KPIs, telemetry, dashboards, and alerting to drive reliability and system health.
• Oversee correctness testing, fault injection, and replication/synchronization strategies for data integrity and availability.

Operational Excellence

• Drive proactive troubleshooting, incident management, operational readiness, and on-call coverage across teams.
• Ensure systems support in-service maintenance and minimize customer-facing interruptions.

Security & Compliance

• Oversee security controls, encryption, access management, remediation, and compliance for multi-tenant environments.
• Ensure security and compliance documentation remains current.

Automation & Change Management

• Oversee IaC and automation for cloud infrastructure and operations.
• Guide change-management strategies for safe, automated patching, updates, and rollbacks.

Core Responsibilities

Planning & Execution

• Manage multiple medium- to large-scale initiatives, setting priorities and ensuring delivery against timelines, requirements, resources, and budgets.

Collaboration & Partnership

• Drive cross-functional alignment and build strategic relationships with business leaders, stakeholders, customers, and partners.
• Promote inclusive collaboration and diverse perspectives.

Problem Solving

• Guide teams in resolving complex technical and operational issues using data-driven analysis and sound technical judgment.

Continuous Learning

• Build team capabilities by identifying skill gaps, promoting continuous learning, and coaching teams to apply industry best practices and emerging technologies.

Continuous Improvement

• Drive improvements to processes, protocols, and workflows across teams and promote adoption of more effective approaches.

Performance & Development

• Lead performance management, coaching, career development, and talent planning across teams.
• Develop the talent pipeline through hiring, candidate assessment, promotions, and workforce planning.