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As customers move increasingly complex and data-intensive applications to the cloud, storage architecture and file services are critical to successful migration, performance, and operations.\nPosition Overview\nOracle is seeking a highly accomplished Advanced Services Engineer, OCI Storage & File Services to serve as a senior technical leader helping customers architect, migrate, onboard, and operate mission-critical workloads on OCI. This is a deeply technical, customer-facing engineering role requiring strong expertise in enterprise and high-performance storage, file systems, Linux, networking, and cloud infrastructure. The successful candidate will have hands-on experience with technologies such as NetApp ONTAP, Lustre, NFS, and other enterprise or scale-out file and storage platforms, along with a strong understanding of the applications and workloads that depend on them.\nThe Advanced Services Engineer will work with some of OCI's most strategic and technically demanding customers to solve complex issues spanning storage, compute, networking, operating systems, and applications. The role will also partner closely with senior Product Management and Engineering leaders to translate customer requirements into product improvements and roadmap priorities. This is a senior individual contributor role expected to have broad impact across OCI Storage and the wider OCI organization.\nKey Responsibilities\nLead architecture, onboarding, migration, and optimization engagements for mission-critical workloads that depend on enterprise and high-performance storage.\n\nTroubleshoot complex technical and performance issues across storage, compute, networking, Linux, and application layers, driving problems from initial investigation through root cause and resolution.\n\nUnderstand customer workload behavior, including I/O patterns, throughput, latency, metadata, concurrency, availability, and capacity requirements, and translate those requirements into production-ready OCI architectures.\n\nPartner with OCI Storage Engineering, Product Management, Compute, Networking, Support, and other teams to resolve customer issues and influence product strategy and roadmap priorities.\n\nDevelop reusable technical assets, including reference architectures, migration guidance, blueprints, best practices, technical blogs, troubleshooting methodologies, and performance guidance.\n\nServe as a senior technical authority across OCI by mentoring engineers, leading architecture reviews, identifying recurring customer patterns, and driving systemic improvements that benefit multiple customers.\n\nPreferred Experience and Technical Skills\nThe ideal candidate is a senior infrastructure engineer or architect who combines deep systems expertise with strong customer-facing and cross-functional leadership skills.\n10+ years of experience in storage engineering, systems engineering, cloud infrastructure, high-performance computing, technical consulting, or a related technical role.\n\nDeep hands-on expertise with enterprise or high-performance file services such as NetApp ONTAP, Lustre, NFS, parallel file systems, scale-out NAS, or distributed storage systems.\n\nStrong Linux, storage, and networking expertise, including the ability to diagnose performance, reliability, and connectivity issues across distributed systems.\n\nExperience with large-scale data migration, workload onboarding, performance engineering, benchmarking, capacity planning, and production troubleshooting.\n\nStrong understanding of cloud infrastructure, preferably OCI, and the interaction between storage, compute, networking, security, and observability services.\n\nDemonstrated ability to work directly with senior engineering and product leaders, influence without direct authority, and communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and executive audiences.\nPreferred Technical Expertise - Experience in several of the following areas is highly desirable:\n\nNetApp ONTAP, Lustre, NFS, and enterprise file services\n\nLinux storage and performance analysis\n\nHigh-performance computing and AI/ML infrastructure\n\nLarge-scale analytics, media, engineering, and other data-intensive workloads\n\nStorage performance engineering, benchmarking, and workload characterization\n\nOCI or other major public cloud platforms\n\nData migration, replication, backup, and disaster recovery\n\nAutomation, observability, and infrastructure troubleshooting\nServes as a trusted advisor to customers and technical expert on technologies across the marketplace to shape guidance provided to customers. Serves as a go-to technical expert with highly specialized knowledge across Oracle and non-Oracle technologies, products, services, and best practices. Leads organization-wide optimizations (e.g., automation) into solutions and technical delivery in coordination with the customer team. Acts as an internal and/or external expert point of contact and escalation point for critical technical and process issues and provides proactive and reactive technical assistance in close cooperation with Support and Product Development teams for problem analysis and investigation. Assists customers with highly complex software updates, upgrades, configuration, and incident remediation and educates and mentors junior engineers to educate customers on product features, upgrades, and best practices. Leads the scoping, creation, and maintenance of customer deliverables to help customers with solution implementation. Leads highly complex problem analysis and investigation, providing documented technical solutions ready for customers to implement, test, and maintain. Drives cross-functional solution alignment with technology strategy and business goals. Delivers presentations and acts as a technical expert and executive presence during presentations for junior engineers.\n\n Key Responsibilities\nTechnical Leadership:\n-Serves as a trusted advisor to customers and a technical expert on technologies across the marketplace (e.g., technical speaking engagements, publications) to shape guidance provided to customers.\n-Recognized as a technical expert with highly specialized knowledge across Oracle and non-Oracle technologies, products, services, and market trends, serving as a go-to expert for complex or high-impact scenarios.\n-Defines or adjusts strategy for highly complex pre-sales activities, contributing to long-term account growth and solution fit.\n-Leads organization-wide and customer fleet-wide optimizations or efficiency efforts (e.g., automation, streamlined processes, elimination of redundant effort), coordinating with the TAM, ASE engineers and others on the Oracle customer team.\n-Works with external partners to ensure appropriate design and implementation of solutions and promote best practices for technology deployment and workloads, and their stability, maintainability, upgradeability, and performance.\nService Delivery:\n-Acts as internal and/or external expert point of contact and escalation point for critical technical and process issues encountered in the customer's supported environment.\n-Provides proactive and reactive remote or onsite technical assistance in close cooperation with Support and Product Development teams, for problem analysis and investigation and providing and verifying workarounds and acting as a field point of contact for various LOBs.\n-Assists customers with highly complex software updates, upgrades, change management, and incident remediation, identifying key risks and mitigation strategies that may impact project success.\n-Analyzes new and highly complex issues encountered by customers by performing thorough technical root cause investigations.\n-Reviews themes across lessons learned post-project and leads changes to improve technology implementation.\nGlobal Customer Engagement & Education:\n-Acts as expert technical lead for customers and partners with customer leadership to, ensuring solutions address business needs and drive long-term business transformation.\n-Educates and mentors junior engineers to educate customers on product features, upgrades, and patches, and drives and shapes adoption of best practices for technology deployment and workloads, and their stability, maintainability, upgradeability, and performance.\n-Provides executive presence for junior team members during customer meetings where technical expertise is required for critical or escalated issues or where expert technical direction is needed for key decisions.\n-Uses holistic view of solutions and contextual understanding of customer solutions to influence customer direction.\nTechnical Design & Documentation:\n-Leads the scoping, creation, and maintenance of customer 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