{"id":1497914,"url":"https://alion.io/job/oracle-distinguished-cloud-architect-ai-infrastructure-pursuits","title":"Distinguished Cloud Architect, AI Infrastructure Pursuits","company":{"id":53,"name":"Oracle","domain":"oracle.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/oracle","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Oracle","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":88,"open_postings":203,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.665,"repost_share":0.005,"time_to_fill_p50_days":6,"computed_at":"2026-10-20T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"DevOps","role_family":"DevOps","seniority":"lead","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":169800,"max":284300,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":284300},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":true,"technologies":[{"name":"Envoy","optional":false},{"name":"FinOps","optional":false},{"name":"Istio","optional":false},{"name":"KServe","optional":false},{"name":"Kubernetes","optional":false},{"name":"LiteLLM","optional":false},{"name":"MLFlow","optional":false},{"name":"OpenTelemetry","optional":false},{"name":"OpenTofu","optional":false},{"name":"Ray","optional":false},{"name":"Terraform","optional":false},{"name":"Triton","optional":false},{"name":"vLLM","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-24T17:58:06Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-24","last_verified_at":"2026-10-20T11:36:36Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":25,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":25},"description":"The Opportunity\nOracle Cloud Infrastructure is seeking a Master Principal or Distinguished Cloud Architect to join the Strategic Pursuits & Engagements team and help turn OCI’s infrastructure advantages into strategic customer wins.\nAs enterprise AI moves into production, customers must solve two increasingly important problems: continually lower the cost of delivering verified business outcomes and maintain resilient access to the models and capacity required to run their businesses. This creates an opportunity for OCI to differentiate through its infrastructure strengths-including compute and network economics, bare metal, Kubernetes, multicloud connectivity, and distributed cloud.\nThis is a senior, customer-facing technical leadership role. The successful candidate will help refine our strategy through direct market engagement, but their primary responsibility is to execute it with customers: identify opportunities where OCI can create a meaningful advantage, architect the solution, prove the differentiation, and help win the business.\nWhat You’ll Do\nLead strategic pursuits.\nServe as a senior technical leader for some of OCI’s most important and complex opportunities, working directly with customer executives, architects, platform teams, and engineers from discovery through technical validation and decision.\nArchitect differentiated AI infrastructure.\nDesign production architectures spanning AI inference, Kubernetes, CPUs and GPUs, model serving, intelligent routing, multicloud, distributed cloud, edge, security, observability, and resilient execution across models, providers, regions, and capacity pools.\nTurn OCI differentiation into customer value.\nConnect OCI capabilities-including network economics, flexible compute, bare metal, multicloud connectivity, and distributed deployment-to measurable improvements in cost, performance, resilience, security, and operational control.\nProve it.\nMove beyond presentations and architecture diagrams. Develop prototypes, benchmarks, demonstrations, and proofs of value that establish why an OCI-based architecture is better for the customer’s workload.\nShape and operationalize the strategy.\nUse customer engagements to refine reference architectures, technical positioning, solution playbooks, and pursuit patterns. Work across OCI engineering, product, sales, partners, and field architecture to turn successful engagements into repeatable motions.\nBe the technical authority in the room.\nOperate comfortably from executive conversations about business outcomes and economics to deep technical sessions with principal engineers and architects. Challenge assumptions, navigate ambiguity, and build customer confidence through technical credibility.\nWhat We’re Looking For\nWe are looking for someone with exceptional depth in cloud infrastructure and distributed systems who can apply that experience to the rapidly evolving enterprise AI landscape.\nThe ideal candidate brings significant expertise across several of the following:\nLarge-scale cloud and distributed systems architecture\nKubernetes and cloud-native platforms\nCompute, networking, and storage architecture\nCPU, GPU, and accelerator-based infrastructure\nAI/ML infrastructure, inference, and model serving\nMulticloud, distributed, sovereign, and edge architectures\nHigh availability and resilient system design\nPerformance engineering and observability\nCloud economics and FinOps\nSecurity, identity, governance, and policy\nOpen-source infrastructure and automation\nExperience with modern AI infrastructure technologies-such as Kubernetes, KServe, vLLM, Triton, Ray, LiteLLM, Envoy, Istio, OpenTelemetry, MLflow, Terraform/OpenTofu, AI gateways, and model platforms is highly relevant.\nMore important than expertise in any individual technology is the ability to understand complex systems, identify where infrastructure creates competitive advantage, and translate that advantage into a solution a customer will choose.\nThe Person We’re Looking For\nThis person combines the mindset of a principal engineer, field CTO, and pursuit architect.\nThey start with the customer’s business outcome rather than the product catalog. They think across the entire system rather than optimizing one component. They understand economics as well as architecture. They are comfortable with Oracle, open-source, third-party, and competing cloud technologies. And they can build and prove ideas rather than simply present them.\nAbove all, they know how to win complex technical decisions.\nSuccess\nSuccess is measured by customer impact:\nStrategic OCI opportunities advanced and won through technical leadership\nNew and expanded OCI workloads created through differentiated architectures\nTechnical proofs that materially change customer architecture or sourcing decisions\nMeasurable customer improvements in economics, performance, resilience, or control\nRepeatable architectures and pursuit patterns created from successful engagements\nThe goal is straightforward: turn OCI’s infrastructure advantages into compelling customer outcomes-and turn those outcomes into strategic wins.\n Strategic OCI opportunities advanced and won through technical leadership\nNew and expanded OCI workloads created through differentiated architectures\nTechnical proofs that materially change customer architecture or sourcing decisions\nMeasurable customer improvements in economics, performance, resilience, or control\nRepeatable architectures and pursuit patterns created from successful engagements\n Disclaimer:Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.\nRange and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only\nUS: Hiring Range in USD from: $169,800 to $284,300 per annum. May be eligible for equity and compensation deferral. Eligible for commission with an estimated pay mix of 70/30.\nOracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.\nCandidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.\nOracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:\n1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion\n2. Short term disability and long term disability\n3. Life insurance and AD&D\n4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)\n5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts\n6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits\n7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match\n8. Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.\n9. 11 paid holidays\n10. Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.\n11. Paid parental leave\n12. Adoption assistance\n13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan\n14. Financial planning and group legal\n15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance\nThe role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.\nAs part of Oracle's onboarding process and consistent with applicable law, US-based employees are required to complete identity verification, which involves the collection and processing of their biometric information. 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