Senior Director, Core Infrastructure Engineering

Location: Santa Clara, CA, United States

About the role

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is building the next generation of hyperscale cloud infrastructure. As part of our continued investment in cloud storage, we are creating a new leadership organization responsible for defining the hardware platform that powers OCI Storage for years to come.

This newly created Senior Director leadership role will build and lead the Storage Media Layer organization, owning the strategy, engineering, qualification, vendor partnerships, and lifecycle management of the physical storage technologies deployed across OCI's global infrastructure.

This is a unique opportunity to build an organization from the ground up while influencing billions of dollars of infrastructure investment and the future architecture of one of the world's largest cloud platforms.

About the business

Oracle is a global leader in cloud infrastructure, enterprise applications, and mission-critical technology solutions that power governments, enterprises, and institutions worldwide. Oracle’s technologies support some of the world’s most sensitive workloads across healthcare, financial services, telecommunications, defense, manufacturing, and public sector environments.

The opportunity

This leader will establish and lead a new engineering organization responsible for the storage media strategy supporting OCI Storage.

This organization will own the physical storage platform—including media selection and strategy, vendor partnerships, qualification, validation, reliability, and next-generation technology adoption.

The organization will be built from scratch and will include engineering leaders across platform software, media qualification, test automation, vendor engineering, and operational support.

The leader will remain close to technology while operating at executive scale, partnering with storage engineering, silicon engineering, supply chain, and executive leadership to define OCI's long-term storage hardware roadmap.

About Us

Only Oracle brings together the data, infrastructure, applications, and expertise to power everything from industry innovations to life-saving care. And with AI embedded across our products and services, we help customers turn that promise into a better future for all. Discover your potential at a company leading the way in AI and cloud solutions that impact billions of lives.

True innovation starts when everyone is empowered to contribute. That’s why we’re committed to growing a workforce that promotes opportunities for all with competitive benefits that support our people with flexible medical, life insurance, and retirement options. We also encourage employees to give back to their communities through our volunteer programs.

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Provides strategic leadership for multiple teams or small group delivering interdependent, hyper-scale distributed systems.