{"id":1234835,"url":"https://alion.io/job/oracle-planning-deployment-engineer","title":"Planning & Deployment Engineer","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":91,"open_postings":200,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.565,"repost_share":0.005,"time_to_fill_p50_days":4,"computed_at":"2026-09-29T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"DevOps","role_family":"DevOps","seniority":"senior","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Reston, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":102300,"max":209500,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":209500},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":5,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":true,"technologies":[],"status":"closed","first_seen_at":"2026-09-22T17:30:07Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-22","last_verified_at":"2026-09-29T16:57:01Z","board_verified":false,"closed_at":"2026-09-29T16:57:01Z","days_open":6,"trust":{"level":"not_scored","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":6},"description":"The PDE serves as the critical planning and technical-readiness function between program management, engineering, low-voltage vendors (LVVs), and Data Center Build and Deployment Engineers. The role owns the upfront technical and operational review of deployment projects, ensuring requirements are complete, accurate, executable, and ready for field implementation.\nBy identifying design gaps, material issues, dependencies, risks, and omissions before work reaches the data hall, the PDC enables field engineers to remain focused on execution, vendor oversight, validation, testing, troubleshooting, and capacity delivery.\nThe successful candidate will combine deep low-voltage infrastructure knowledge, strong project-management capabilities, technical deployment experience, and effective vendor and stakeholder management.\n Key Responsibilities\nProject Planning & Technical Readiness\nIngest new data center build and capacity deployment projects and drive them through deployment readiness.\nConduct comprehensive technical reviews of project requirements before field execution.\nValidate hardware requirements, Bills of Materials (BOMs), cut sheets/patching documentation, rack positioning, passive infrastructure, and associated deployment requirements.\nIdentify technical gaps, omissions, inconsistencies, and dependencies early enough to prevent downstream deployment delays.\nReview project scope, schedules, milestones, resources, and critical-path activities to confirm execution readiness.\nCoordinate RFQ activities and vendor engagement required to support deployment.\nDevelop and coordinate early-access plans to maximize deployment readiness and accelerate capacity delivery.\nEnsure required materials, documentation, resources, and dependencies are validated before handoff to field engineering teams.\nDeployment Execution\nServe as a central coordination point throughout the deployment lifecycle, from project intake through field handoff and capacity delivery.\nPartner closely with Data Center Build and Deployment Engineers, Technical Program Managers, Delivery teams, Automation teams, and all relevant other stakeholders to maintain alignment on scope, schedule, dependencies, and execution.\nAttend relevant project meetings and translate project-level decisions, changes, risks, and requirements into clear guidance for field engineering stakeholders.\nTrack milestones, deliverables, dependencies, risks, and blockers across multiple concurrent projects and data center build deployments.\nProactively identify schedule or execution risks and drive mitigation plans before impacting committed delivery dates.\nEscalate critical issues with a clear assessment of impact, identify resolution owners and recommended resolution.\nMaintain clear and timely communication regarding project status, risks, decisions, and changes.\nDesign Change Request Management and Validation\nReview Design Change Requests (DCRs) for technical and operational impact.\nCoordinate implementation of approved changes across engineering, vendors, program management, and field deployment teams.\nEvaluate time bound impacts of changes on materials, cut sheets, BOMs, schedules, resources, and capacity commitments.\nRe-establish execution plans and clearly articulate risks and impacts to schedule.\nEnsure revised requirements and documentation are accurately communicated to the teams responsible for implementation.\nVendor Management\nCoordinate closely with low-voltage vendors to ensure scope, schedules, technical requirements, and quality expectations are clearly understood.\nSupport RFQ, planning, readiness, and execution activities with vendor partners.\nConduct vendor project and business reviews to evaluate progress, risks, roadblocks, quality, and schedule performance.\nHold vendors accountable for contracted commitments and drive resolution of execution issues.\nPartner with field engineers to address technical and operational vendor challenges.\nIdentify recurring or systemic vendor issues and develop mechanisms to improve quality, predictability, and execution.\nCross-Functional Collaboration Could be removed\nCollaborate across Engineering, Delivery, Automation, Supply Chain, Program Management, Operations, and vendor organizations to enable seamless capacity delivery.\nProvide Technical Program Managers with clear visibility into deployment readiness, progress, dependencies, and risks.\nTranslate program and design requirements into actionable execution guidance for field teams and vendors.\nBuild trusted relationships across stakeholder groups and ensure concerns and requirements are identified early.\nFacilitate alignment when competing priorities, dependencies, or technical constraints affect delivery.\nProcess & Continuous Improvement\nDevelop scalable, repeatable processes and mechanisms that improve deployment quality, speed, and predictability.\nIdentify recurring deployment defects and address root causes rather than relying on repeated tactical workarounds.\nRecommend and implement improvements to planning, technical validation, vendor management, project handoff, and deployment workflows.\nPartner with Automation and Program Management teams to identify opportunities to reduce manual effort and improve data and documentation quality.\nDocument best practices, lessons learned, and standardized deployment processes.\nEvaluate the effectiveness of process improvements and their impact on engineering teams, vendors, stakeholders, and delivery performance.\nRequired Qualifications & Experience\n5+ years' experience with data center, telecommunications, or low-voltage infrastructure deployments.\n5+ years of structured cabling infrastructure experience, including copper and optical fiber deployment methodologies and industry best practices.\nDemonstrated ability to review and validate technical deployment documentation, including cut sheets, patching matrices/schedules, Bills of Materials, rack layouts, and hardware requirements.\nKnowledge of network infrastructure, connectivity, networking layers, and testing and validation methodologies.\nExperience coordinating or managing low-voltage vendors and contractors in complex deployment environments.\nStrong project-management skills, including project scoping, scheduling, dependency management, resource planning, risk management, and critical-path management.\nDemonstrated ability to manage multiple concurrent projects and prioritize effectively as requirements and business needs change.\nStrong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to identify risks and gaps before affecting delivery schedule.\nStrong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to clearly communicate technical issues, project status, risks, and required actions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.\nDemonstrated ability to operate independently while effectively coordinating across multiple teams and stakeholders.\nCore Competencies\nPlanning & Execution: Effectively manages multiple moderately complex deployment activities, establishes clear priorities, monitors milestones and dependencies, and adjusts execution plans as resources, requirements, or schedules change.\nTechnical Excellence: Applies strong data center and low-voltage infrastructure knowledge to validate deployment requirements, identify technical gaps, and ensure projects are ready for successful field execution.\nOwnership & Problem Solving: Proactively identify risk mitigation and project blockers, performs structured analysis, drives issues toward resolution, and escalates appropriately with recommended solutions rather than simply identifying problems.\nCollaboration & Stakeholder Management: Builds effective partnerships across technical teams, program management, vendors, and business stakeholders. Establishes clear expectations, communicates proactively, and develops trust through consistent execution and follow-through.\nVendor Management: Establishes clear expectations with vendor partners, monitors execution and quality, identifies gaps, and drives accountability for commitments and corrective actions.\nContinuous Improvement: Identifies opportunities to simplify, standardize, and automate deployment processes. Develops repeatable mechanisms that improve quality, efficiency, predictability, and delivery velocity.\nContinuous Learning: Maintains current knowledge of data center technologies, deployment methodologies, tools, and industry best practices. Seeks feedback and applies lessons learned to improve future execution.\nKnowledge Sharing & Development: Shares technical and operational knowledge across the organization, coaches less-experienced team members, contributes to best practices, and participates in candidate interviews and talent development activities.\nSuccess in the Role\nSuccess in this role is demonstrated by the ability to consistently deliver deployment-ready projects to field engineering teams with accurate requirements, validated technical documentation, clear execution plans, identified dependencies, and mitigation risks.\nThe PDC should reduce the amount of planning and administrative work performed by Data Center Build and Deployment Engineers, allowing field engineers to focus on data-hall execution and technical vendor oversight. Ultimately, the role contributes to faster capacity delivery, fewer field-discovered issues, improved vendor execution, reduced rework, and more predictable data center deployments.\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: $102,300 to $209,500 per annum. May be eligible for bonus and equity.\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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