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As their manager, you will build and develop the team, guide technical execution, and hold accountability for delivery across customer engagements.\nYou will combine people leadership, technical judgment, and customer partnership to help engineers turn complex mission requirements into secure, resilient, production-ready systems. Success means customers can operate, sustain, and expand the solutions your team delivers.\nMust possess or have the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI with Poly\nThis is a HYBRID position that involves a combination of remote, in-office work and meetings at the client site. Candidates must be based in the greater Washington DC area.\nWhat You’ll Do\nLead and Develop the Team\nRecruit, coach, and retain experienced cloud architects and infrastructure engineers supporting mission-critical customer environments.\nSet clear expectations for technical quality, customer engagement, delivery ownership, and professional growth.\nManage performance and career development through regular feedback, meaningful goals, and individual development plans.\nMatch engineers to engagements based on mission needs, technical expertise, clearance requirements, and team capacity.\nBuild a collaborative engineering culture that encourages accountability, sound judgment, knowledge sharing, and continuous learning.\nOwn Delivery Across Customer Engagements\nLead a portfolio of embedded FDE engagements, with each engineer focused on a dedicated customer.\nPartner with customer stakeholders and assigned engineers to establish scope, priorities, milestones, dependencies, and measurable success criteria.\nGuide execution across the full delivery lifecycle: architecture, build, deployment, hardening, operations, and transition.\nMonitor delivery health, identify risks early, resolve resource constraints, and coordinate support across Oracle.\nServe as a management escalation point for complex technical issues, delivery challenges, and customer concerns.\nEnsure engagements include documentation, knowledge transfer, operational readiness, and clear ownership for ongoing support.\nProvide Technical Leadership\nReview solution architectures and implementation approaches for security, scalability, resilience, performance, and operational sustainability.\nGuide engineering across OCI compute, networking, identity, storage, databases, Kubernetes, security, and observability services.\nEstablish practical engineering standards for Infrastructure-as-Code, automation, source control, testing, deployment, and change management within customer environments.\nMaintain sufficient hands-on technical depth to evaluate designs, challenge assumptions, and assist with complex implementation and troubleshooting efforts.\nHelp teams mature pilot deployments into production systems aligned with customer security and accreditation requirements.\nPromote reusable automation, deployment patterns, and technical guidance where customer security and information-sharing requirements permit.\nBuild Customer and Oracle Partnerships\nEstablish trusted relationships with customer technical leaders, operators, and mission stakeholders.\nTranslate mission priorities into actionable engineering plans and communicate progress, risks, and decisions to technical and executive audiences.\nCollaborate with Oracle product engineering, support, security, consulting, and account teams to address customer needs and remove delivery barriers.\nCoordinate responsibilities across FDEs and other Oracle teams so customers have clear delivery and support ownership.\nCapture field experience and communicate product gaps, recurring issues, and enhancement opportunities to Oracle engineering leadership.\nSupport sustainable OCI adoption and consumption by ensuring deployed solutions deliver measurable customer value.\nWhat We’re Looking For\nRequired Qualifications\nMust possess or have the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI with Poly\nExperience supporting or working within the U.S. Intelligence Community.\nFive or more years managing technical teams in cloud engineering, infrastructure, architecture, or closely related disciplines.\nDemonstrated success leading senior technical professionals and managing complex customer engagements.\nStrong hands-on background in cloud architecture, infrastructure engineering, and production operations.\nExperience guiding solutions from initial requirements and architecture through deployment, operational adoption, and transition.\nKnowledge of secure, highly available cloud environments, including networking, identity, security, observability, and disaster recovery.\nExperience with Infrastructure-as-Code and automation technologies such as Terraform, OCI Resource Manager, Ansible, Python, or Shell.\nStrong prioritization, problem-solving, and communication skills across technical and executive audiences.\nAbility to support on-site customer engagements and travel as required.\nBachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.\nPreferred Qualifications\nAdvanced degree in Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or a related technical discipline.\nExperience leading embedded engineering teams or sustained technical delivery within government customer environments.\nDeep OCI experience and OCI Architect Associate or Professional certification.\nExperience with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.\nExpertise in Kubernetes, container platforms, and cloud-native modernization.\nFamiliarity with government security accreditation and compliance processes.\nExperience translating field requirements into product improvements and reusable engineering capabilities.\nHow You’ll Lead\nYou set high standards and give engineers the support and autonomy to meet them. You make informed decisions, communicate clearly, and address risks early. You recognize individual contributions, develop future technical leaders, and build productive relationships across organizational boundaries.\nYou measure success through team development, delivery quality, operational readiness, customer adoption, and mission impact.\nWhy Oracle\nOracle Cloud Infrastructure supports demanding workloads across government, defense, and intelligence organizations.\nAs a leader of Forward Deployed Engineers, you will help build the team and engineering practices that bring those capabilities directly into customer environments. Your leadership will enable engineers to solve difficult technical problems, deliver dependable systems, and advance critical national security missions.\nJoin Oracle and lead the engineers turning cloud capability into mission outcomes.\n#LI-PA4\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: $148,900 to $243,800 per annum. May be eligible for equity and compensation deferral. Eligible for commission with an estimated pay mix of 60/40.\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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