
Manager, 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 builds and operates components of distributed systems, with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance, reliability, observability, and secure multi-tenant cloud infrastructure. The team owns correctness and availability testing, data replication and synchronization, incident response, and automation including Infrastructure as Code. This manager role translates goals into quarterly execution plans, sets coding, testing, and scalability practices, and provides hands-on oversight of performance tuning, operational readiness, security implementation, and team performance and development.
What you will do
- Provides oversight to the team on the development of components of distributed systems, including the use of distributed state management tools.
- Monitors and enables optimization of code and/or systems for large-scale data processing.
- Guides team to implement scalability requirements for assigned components.
- Coaches team to leverage data plane platforms to effectively handle large-scale data retrieval, storage, and processing.
- Ensures team accurately implements and executes performance and load testing.
- Provides guidance to the team in building fault-tolerant systems capable of withstanding in-service updates by leading the implementation of redundancy, replication, and automatic failover mechanisms.
- Guides the design of components to effectively handle service disruptions.
- Coaches team on various approaches to handle network unreliability, including retry mechanisms, circuit breakers, and timeouts.
- Guides team to implement testing and alarming configurations for detecting and addressing issues/failures.
- Ensures team effectively supports recovery efforts by reviewing and aligning on runbooks and operational procedures.
- Coaches team on building and customizing dashboards, telemetry systems, and alerting mechanisms to monitor component health.
- Manages the implementation and design of functional requirements and testing for features within an existing system.
- Coaches team on implementing test scenarios (e.g., fault-injection, brown-out) to evaluate system correctness.
- Guides the implementation of data replication and synchronization techniques within the team to maintain data integrity and availability.
- Leads team efforts in diagnosing, debugging, and resolving issues in system components to support ongoing operation.
- Ensures teams are following protocols for preventing interruptions, ensuring no maintenance windows are required for customers and users when resolving issues.
- Manages team in effectively implementing automation scripts and tooling when troubleshooting operational issues.
- Creates schedules and manages operational support rotations.
- Manages team implementation of robust security measures to protect data and applications in multi-tenant environments, overseeing encryption techniques and access controls.
- Manages execution of remediation plans to address identified security gaps, ensuring continuous improvement of security measures.
- Reviews documentation and ensures cloud infrastructure compliance with industry standards and regulations.
- Leads the maintenance of automation scripts and tools (e.g., Infrastructure as Code (IaC)) to manage cloud infrastructure.
- Coaches team on change management plans for patching, updating, and rolling back applications.
- Creates and owns the execution plan for the team’s work and multiple projects or initiatives, monitoring timelines and budgets (when applicable) to ensure projects are completed on time and in adherence with requirements.
- Delegates work across the team and helps them prioritize their work.
- Identifies resource needs and adapts plans based on changing priorities and business needs.
- Strengthens collaborative partnerships across teams to align on expectations and shared objectives.
- Guides team members to build relationships with business leaders, stakeholders, and/or customers to ensure effective collaboration.
- Practices active listening and asks insightful questions to promote an inclusive culture.
- Leads team to identify and address moderately complex operational and/or technical issues in accordance with standard practices, providing guidance as appropriate.
- Directs team to analyze data and/or information from multiple sources to troubleshoot moderately complex errors.
- Actively seeks learning opportunities for self and team to enhance knowledge and skills in key areas and remain current with industry advancements.
- Uses feedback and training to elevate personal and team skills, modeling a commitment to learning.
- Identifies skill gaps within the team and supports team members in learning opportunities by providing resources and fostering an environment that encourages knowledge-sharing.
- Identifies and recommends improvements and encourages the team to share ideas to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of processes, protocols, and workflows within a team.
- Reviews and provides feedback on team members’ ideas and seeks input from others on alternative approaches and methods for improving work.
- Coaches and provides direction to team members in alignment with performance management processes, guidelines, and expectations.
- Facilitates goal-setting discussions with team members, ensuring individual goals are aligned with broader team goals.
- Identifies development opportunities to help team members improve performance.
- Contributes to the talent acquisition pipeline by leading candidate interviews, assessing promotion eligibility, and managing talent resources.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 8 years of experience in software development
- Bachelor’s of Technology (B.Tech) Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 4 years of experience in software development
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 4 years of experience in software development
- Master’s of Technology (M.Tech) Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 2 years of experience in software development
- Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 2 years of experience in software development
- Doctorate in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field.
- Data Analysis: Demonstrated ability to analyze and interpret data to produce actionable business insights.
- Troubleshooting: Demonstrated ability in or knowledge of troubleshooting, including diagnosing and resolving issues across various technical domains.
- Distributed Systems: Demonstrated ability in or knowledge of distributed systems, including designing or managing scalable, secure, and highly available software systems.
- Prototyping: Demonstrated experience creating and refining prototypes for system validation and stakeholder feedback.
- Quality Assurance: Demonstrated ability in or knowledge of quality assurance, including ensuring adherence to standards and implementing quality control measures.
- Scripting Languages: Demonstrated ability in or knowledge of scripting languages, including writing and maintaining scripts to improve system efficiency.
- Computer Science Programming: Demonstrated understanding of computer science principles and ability to implement them in code.
- Software Engineering: Demonstrated proficiency in all phases of software engineering and development.
- Code Writing: Demonstrated proficiency writing maintainable, effective code in high-level programming languages.
- Software Test Plans: Demonstrated ability to develop and execute effective software test plans to validate product quality.
- Web Development: Demonstrated ability in or knowledge of web development, including designing, developing, or maintaining modern web applications using current frameworks.
- User Experience Development: Demonstrated ability in or knowledge of user experience development, including designing intuitive and effective user interfaces and content.
- Innovation: Demonstrated ability in or knowledge of innovation, including generating or supporting new ideas, technologies, or processes for organizational growth.
- Cross-Functional/Team Collaboration: Demonstrated ability in or knowledge of cross-functional collaboration, including working with stakeholders across teams or geographies to achieve common objectives.
- Information Vulnerabilities: Demonstrated ability to assess and mitigate vulnerabilities in IT and physical information assets.
- Code Review: Demonstrated ability to conduct in-depth code
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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