
Director, Core Infrastructure Engineering
Oracle · Posted Oct 14
Cloud infrastructure, enterprise software, database systems, and AI-powered business applications
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About the role
Oracle's Core Infrastructure Engineering organization is responsible for the architecture and delivery of interdependent, scalable distributed systems that meet organizational and customer demands. The team focuses on high-throughput, large-scale data processing, data plane platforms, fault-tolerant and in-service-upgradable architectures, telemetry, and operational readiness across multi-tenant cloud environments. This Director role leads multiple teams, setting direction for scalability, reliability, security and compliance, automation via Infrastructure as Code, and change management across the department.
What you will do
- Implements strategies across multiple teams or groups for the architecture and design of interdependent scalable distributed systems, including the use of distributed state management tools, ensuring organizational and system demands are met.
- Spearheads code and/or system optimization initiatives for large-scale data processing and high-throughput requirements across multiple areas, driving improvements that support hyper-scale systems.
- Facilitates collaborations to define system scalability requirements, ensuring the defined requirements meet customer expectations.
- Oversees the design of interdependent systems to scale with elasticity (e.g., effectively scaling both up and down).
- Drives the effective use and implementation of data plane platforms for large-scale data operations.
- Provides strategic oversight for the architecture of fault-tolerant interdependent systems capable of withstanding in-service updates by overseeing implementation across teams of redundancy, replication, and automatic failover mechanisms.
- Influences and sets direction for designing systems to effectively handle service disruptions (e.g., network partitions) by prioritizing consistency, availability, or partition tolerance.
- Leads strategic optimization initiatives for handling network unreliability, including directing the design of load-shedding, throttling, and rate-limiting techniques.
- Holds teams accountable for leveraging formal verification techniques to verify system designs and conduct peer reviews across teams.
- Drives the design of systems that are durable and adhere to service level objectives (SLOs), developing standards for availability and durability of other computing services across the department.
- Drives strategies for defining key performance indicators (KPIs) and telemetry to identify risks, gaps, or cyclical dependencies in running systems, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.
- Directs the creation and customization of complex dashboards, telemetry systems, and alerting mechanisms that proactively monitor and ensure optimal system health across teams.
- Implements strategies to effectively determine if systems are meeting functional and correctness requirements, and encourages teams to identify improvement opportunities.
- Provides thought leadership on processes for formally verifying complex features to ensure system design correctness.
- Oversees the implementation of data replication and synchronization techniques, ensuring data integrity and availability across the organization.
- Provides strategic oversight for diagnosing, debugging, and resolving issues in active systems to support ongoing operation.
- Directs strategies within teams to prevent interruptions, ensuring no maintenance windows are required for customers and users when resolving issues.
- Drives alignment across teams for operational readiness protocol and standard operating procedures.
- Provides expert guidance for complex incident response and root cause investigations.
- Provides strategic guidance in architecting robust security measures to protect data and applications in multi-tenant environments, ensuring encryption techniques and access controls are implemented.
- Oversees execution of remediation plans to address identified security gaps, promoting significant improvements and continuous advancement of security measures.
- Drives documentation efforts and ensures cloud infrastructure compliance with industry standards and regulations.
- Provides strategic guidance across teams on developing and maintaining automation scripts and tools (e.g., Infrastructure as Code (IaC)) to manage cloud infrastructure.
- Drives strategic alignment of change management plans for patching, updating, and rolling back applications, and oversees that system designs allow for automation of these processes.
- Oversees and guides multiple teams on managing complex projects or initiatives, monitoring timelines, deliverables, and budgets (when applicable) to ensure strategic objectives are met.
- Serves as a role model for appropriately delegating work, setting priorities, and ensuring alignment with business needs.
- Coaches others on adjusting resources or project timelines in anticipation of business changes.
- Role models leading cross-functional collaborative efforts to ensure alignment of expectations and strategic objectives.
- Empowers teams to build and maintain partnerships with business leaders, stakeholders, and/or customers to address barriers and contribute to organizational success.
- Drives transparency and inclusivity by modeling actively seeking, listening to, and leveraging diverse perspectives.
- Shares problem-solving strategies across teams, providing oversight on complex operational and/or technical issues, as needed.
- Coaches teams on analyzing highly complex data and/or information to identify solutions to ambiguous issues.
- Provides direction on identifying root causes to prevent recurrence of issues.
- Pursues strategic learning opportunities to maintain expertise and apply best practices at the organizational level.
- Creates opportunities for team members and leaders to build their expertise in new areas, coaching them to build innovative skills.
- Identifies skill gap trends across the organization and upholds a culture that places significant emphasis on sharing knowledge and pursuing learning opportunities that advance the organization.
- Evaluates the efficiency of learning strategies and recommends adjustments as needed.
- Empowers teams to own the development and implementation of ideas that increase the efficiency and effectiveness of processes, protocols, and workflows across the department.
- Coaches teams to gain buy-in for ideas and to seek feedback on approaches and methods for continued improvement.
- Prioritizes and reviews the roadmap of improvement initiatives to ensure alignment with strategic direction and maximize return on investments.
- Serves as a role model for driving performance across teams through tailored feedback and coaching in alignment with performance management processes, guidelines, and expectations.
- Drives consistency in the application of talent development procedures and socializes performance expectations across the organization.
- Ensures that individual development goals are aligned with organizational strategic initiatives.
- Collaborates with HR to implement talent strategy through hiring and promotion processes.
Skills used in this role
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Oracle
Oracle Corporation is a multinational computer technology company specializing in cloud-engineered hardware, enterprise software, and database management systems. It provides comprehensive cloud solutions such as Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Oracle Cloud Applications (OCA) to power digital transformations globally. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Oracle is a major player in enterprise AI integration and database solutions.
- Industry
- Cloud Computing
- Company size
- 141000 employees
- Founded
- 1977
- Location
- Austin, Texas, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $56B raised
- 2025-10-24Post IPO Debt$18B
- 2025-02-03Conventional Debt$18B
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Lawrence J. Ellison
Chairman of the Board and Chief Technology Officer
Clay Magouyrk
Chief Executive Officer
Mike Sicilia
Chief Executive Officer
Hilary Maxson
Chief Financial Officer
Jae Evans
Global Chief Information Officer and Executive Vice President
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