Senior Director, Core Infrastructure Engineering - OCI Virtual Networking

This role is with the Virtual Networking team in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), supporting a Tier-0 service that provides authentication and authorization for OCI services. In this role, you will lead multiple engineering teams responsible for core virtual networking Infrastructure services including, authentication and authorization. These highly available, low-latency services are foundational to the OCI control plane and require exceptional reliability, scalability, and operational excellence., Are you passionate about building cloud infrastructure that powers millions of customers? Do you enjoy leading high-performing engineering organizations that design and operate mission-critical distributed systems at massive scale? Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is looking for an experienced engineering leader to drive the strategy, development, and operations of our Tier-0 Virtual Networking and Identity services.

In this role, you will lead multiple engineering teams responsible for core virtual networking Infrastructure services including, authentication and authorization. These highly available, low-latency services are foundational to the OCI control plane and require exceptional reliability, scalability, and operational excellence.

As a Senior Director, you will define the long-term technical vision, influence product strategy, and lead the execution of cloud-scale distributed systems that support Oracle’s rapidly growing cloud business. You’ll partner closely with Product Management, Security, Networking, and other OCI engineering organizations to deliver innovative capabilities while maintaining the highest standards for availability, security, and customer experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple engineering teams responsible for Tier-0 authentication, authorization, and virtual networking services.
• Define the technical strategy and roadmap for critical OCI infrastructure services in partnership with Product Management.
• Drive the architecture, development, and operation of highly available, secure, and scalable distributed systems.
• Establish engineering best practices that improve service reliability, operational excellence, security, and performance.
• Collaborate across OCI organizations to deliver integrated cloud networking and security solutions.
• Recruit, mentor, and develop engineering managers and senior engineers while building a high-performing engineering culture.
• Influence technical direction and strategic decisions across the broader OCI Networking organization.
• Represent your organization in executive-level planning, architecture reviews, and customer engagements.

• 15+ years of software engineering experience, including 7+ years leading large engineering organizations.
• 10+ years of designing, delivering, and operating large scale distributed systems in production environments.
• Deep expertise in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, networking, security, and high-availability architectures.
• Demonstrable success mentoring and growing engineers and people managers to senior levels.
• Prior experience in owning and managing SaaS/IaaS services.
• Strong knowledge of security, distributed systems, networking and high-performance computing fundamentals.
• Experience leading organizations with multiple layers of engineering management.
• Demonstrated success developing engineering leaders, scaling organizations, and delivering complex technical programs.
• Exceptional communication, collaboration, and executive leadership skills.
• BS, MS, or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.

Why Oracle Cloud Infrastructure?

OCI is building the next generation of enterprise cloud. Our engineers solve some of the industry’s most challenging problems in distributed systems, networking, security, and cloud infrastructure while operating at global scale.

If you’re passionate about building foundational cloud services, leading world-class engineering teams, and shaping the future of cloud infrastructure, we’d love to hear from you.

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