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We provide advisory, deployment, migration, integration, and managed services, with a focus on strong client service, dependable delivery, and career growth for our employees.\n\nThe Senior Manager, Infrastructure Solutions leads a team of technical resources while personally contributing to solution design, sales-cycle execution, and delivery leadership. The successful candidate will balance workload and priorities, mentor staff, approve customer deliverables, develop end-to-end architectures, support discovery and sizing, and serve as a senior escalation point. This is not a management-only position; the role requires the ability to directly perform technical, and presales work across multiple infrastructure and operating-system domains with a primary focus on Oracle Engineered Systems.\n\nJOB TYPE: Ful-time Employee\nTravel: 100% remote3. Core Technology ScopeDomainPlatforms / TechnologiesEnterprise InfrastructureOn-premises compute, storage, and network infrastructureOracle Engineered SystemsExadata, ZFS Storage Appliance, Oracle Database Appliance, and related platformsVirtualizationOracle VM, Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager, KVM, and VMwareOperating systems / Enterprise platformsPrimary : Oracle Linux, RHEL, other Linux distributions\nSecondary : Solaris, AIX, and HP-UX4. Key ResponsibilitiesPeople and Resource Management\nLead and manage technical and presales resources across the defined technology portfolio.\n\nAssign and balance workload across sales opportunities, customer commitments, and available staff.\n\nMentor technical consulting team on an as needed basis. \n\nOwn resourcing conflicts, prioritization decisions, and leadership escalations.\n\nReport team capacity, performance, and pipeline-support metrics to leadership.\n\nProvide hands-on coverage for team responsibilities during absences or staffing gaps.\n\nSolution Architecture \nDesign end-to-end solutions spanning infrastructure, engineered systems, virtualization, and operating-system platforms.\n\nAct as Technical Architect on client engagements and ensure team’s project deliverables are meeting technical standards \n\nValidate solution feasibility, sizing, integration, supportability, and alignment across heterogeneous environments.\n\nMaintain technical standards and reference architectures used in customer proposals.\n\nProvide architecture governance and final technical sign-off for complex or high-risk designs.\n\nPresales and Commercial Support\nLead technical discovery, requirements clarification, sizing, and solution positioning during the sales cycle.\n\nCreate and review Statements of Work, staffing plans, effort estimates, timelines, and responsibility models.\n\nCreate customer-facing and executive presentations that communicate solution value, architecture, scope, assumptions, and risk.\n\nCreate Oracle carts and bills of materials using the Oracle Partner Store or successor tooling.\n\nPerform Oracle license assessments, including entitlement review, compliance considerations, and sizing for new or renewal licensing.\n\nParticipate in RFP and RFI technical response development and quality review.\n\nTechnical Escalation Management\nServe as a senior escalation point across the covered technology domains.\n\nCoordinate internal specialists, delivery leaders, and vendor support contacts for issue resolution.\n\nConduct root-cause and lessons-learned reviews for major escalations and incorporate improvements into standards and delivery practices.\n\n5. Required Qualifications\nDemonstrated experience leading technical or presales resources in enterprise infrastructure, managed services, systems integration, or consulting environments.\n\nHands-on solution architecture experience across compute, storage, networking, virtualization, and operating systems.\n\nStrong working knowledge of Oracle engineered systems and related infrastructure technologies.\n\nProven ability to create and quality-review SOWs, staffing plans, technical proposals, executive presentations, and RFP/RFI responses.\n\nExperience performing technical discovery, solution sizing, architecture validation, and customer presentations.\n\nExperience managing technical escalations and coordinating with vendors or OEM support organizations.\n\nExcellent written, verbal, facilitation, and stakeholder-management skills.\n\nAbility to manage competing priorities while continuing to contribute directly to technical and presales deliverables.\n\nExperience with Exadata, Oracle Database Appliance, ZFS Storage Appliance, Oracle Linux, and Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager.\n\nExperience with VMware, KVM, SPARC/Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, and multi-platform migration or modernization initiatives.\n\n6. Preferred Qualifications\nKnowledge of Oracle licensing concepts, entitlement reviews, compliance assessments, and bill-of-material creation.\n\nExperience working with Oracle, IBM, HPE, and other enterprise technology vendors.\n\nBackground in consulting, presales engineering, solution architecture, or customer-facing technical leadership.\n\nRelevant vendor, architecture, operating system, virtualization, or project leadership certifications.\n\n7. 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