Senior Manager, Core Infrastructure Engineering

We’re looking for a hands-on leader with expertise and passion leading engineering teams, solving difficult problems in distributed systems, and creating a secure environment for our customers. At Oracle you can build new teams and systems from the ground up. These are exciting times in our space - we are growing fast, still at an early stage and working on ambitious new initiatives. A leader at any level can have significant technical and business impact.

This is a new ground-up effort to build Infrastructure-as-a-Service that operates at a high scale in a broadly distributed multi-tenant cloud environment. Our customers run their businesses on our cloud, and our mission is to provide them with best-in-class compute, storage, networking, database, security, and an ever-expanding set of foundational cloud-based services. These are exciting times in our space - we are growing fast, still at a relatively early stage and working on ambitious new initiatives.

What You'll Do

Service Accountability -You will lead a team whose mission is to build core network infrastructure that is highly performant, scalable, and reliable.

Ownership Scope - You own the performance of the service as it relates to the the networking dataplane as well as the roadmap to determine the key features required by our customers and partner teams.

Operations Engineering - You will understand and be able to communicate the scale, capacity, security, performance attributes, and requirements of the service(s) you own. We are subject matter experts, able to understand and communicate every characteristic of our service stack, such as:

• Degradation and behavior under load of the services and their dependencies
• Instrumentation and metrics that clearly describe the service behaviors scaling requirements and patterns resiliency and recoverability, ensuring that backup/restore and disaster recovery capabilities are implemented, tested, and maintained

Automation - You will have a clear understanding of automation and orchestration principles, and will be eager to help automate, wherever and whenever the possibility arises, while simultaneously eliminating technical debt. Automation must be part of your DNA.

Incidence Management - You will own and respond to customer incidents within the agreed-upon SLAs. You will manage the on-call for your services.

Technical Experts - You will have a deep understanding of service topology and the dependencies required to troubleshoot issues and define mitigations. You will bring this expertise to bear in driving reliability improvements in the services you engage with.

Cross-team collaboration - You will engage with and present to a wide variety of audiences, ranging from individual contributors and teams to senior leadership

Basic Qualifications:

• Led or managed teams working with NIC DPU's based on P4 and/or DOCA.
• 3+ years experience of leading or managing a team of software engineers building network infrastructure.
• BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field
• 5+ years of Software Engineer experience.
• BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field
• Hands-on ability to Architect, design, and oversee development & implementation of features
• Experience with C/C++ and Python.
• Experience with Linux Kernel Modules and device drivers.
• Strong Network Protocols, tools and troubleshooting experience.
• Debugging with tools such as gdb and Coredump analysis.
• Unit test, Feature test and system test planning, execution and automation.
• Resolving customer issues and handling escalations.
• Experience deploying code within change management procedures
• Understanding of service KPI metrics, alarms, logging, and system health
• Experience working in an operational environment with mission-critical tier-one services with associated oncall responsibilities.
• Experience with mentoring and growing engineers building network infrastructure.

Minimum Job Qualifications

Education and/or Experience:

• 9 years of experience in software development

OR

• Bachelor’s of Technology (B.Tech) Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 5 years of experience in software development

OR

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 5 years of experience in software development

OR

• Master’s of Technology (M.Tech) Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 3 years of experience in software development

OR

• Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 3 years of experience in software development

OR

• Doctorate in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 1 year of experience in software development.

Job Skills:

• Same skills as prior level, plus:
  • Agile Methodologies: Demonstrated ability to use agile methodologies to drive continuous improvement and product delivery.
  • Automation: Demonstrated ability in or knowledge of automation, including designing, implementing, and managing automated tools, processes, or systems to streamline operations.
  • Compliance: Demonstrated knowledge of and adherence to regulatory, legal, and organizational compliance requirements.
  • Data Management: Demonstrated ability in or knowledge of data management, including designing, operationalizing, securing, and monitoring data pipelines.
  • Data Integration: Demonstrated ability in or knowledge of data integration, including specifying and using services to load and manage data from various sources.
  • Patent Innovation / Filing: Demonstrated ability to prepare, file, and manage patent applications for innovative products or technology.

Cloud - Cloud Platforms Experience:

• 3 years of professional experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google, Oracle Cloud).

Testing and Automation Experience:

• 6 years of experience working in testing and automation at the system level.

Distributed Systems Experience:

• 2 years of experience working with delivering and operating large-scale distributed systems.

Preferred Job Qualifications

Education and/or Experience:

• 10 years of experience in software development

OR

• Bachelor’s of Technology (B.Tech) Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, Business Administration, or related field AND 6 years of experience in software development

OR

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, Business Administration, or related field AND 6 years of experience in software development

OR

• Master’s of Technology (M.Tech) Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, Business Administration, or related field AND 4 years of experience in software development

OR

• Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, Business Administration, or related field AND 4 years of experience in software development

OR

• Doctorate in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, Business Administration, or related field AND 2 years of experience in software development.

People Leadership / Management Experience:

• 2 years of experience in a technical lead role with direct reports.