Senior Manager, DDOS Engineering and Development

Oracle; Manchester; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading cloud infrastructure company in Manchester is seeking a Senior Manager to lead the engineering team responsible for building and operating a cloud-scale DDoS protection platform. You will define roadmaps, manage team performance, and oversee the development of customer-facing DDoS products. Ideal candidates should have deep knowledge in networking, strong leadership experience, and proficiency in automation practices. Competitive salary and opportunities for team development are offered.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Career development opportunities

Qualifications

• 10+ years in network/security or backend engineering with 4+ years of team leadership.
• Strong delivery of large-scale DDoS or network security programs.
• Deep networking knowledge and ability to guide architectural decisions.

Responsibilities

• Define roadmap for DDoS platform and product.
• Lead service development from concept to launch.
• Oversee capacity modeling and scaling readiness.

Skills

Leadership in engineering teams

Strong systems design skills

Networking fundamentals

Fluency in automation and DevOps

Proficiency in Java

Excellent stakeholder management

Tools

CI/CD tools

Terraform

Job description

Join the OCI DDOS Team as we embark on operating our DDOS Infrastructure Platform while we develop a DDOS Product for our customers.

Manage a team that designs, develops, troubleshoots and debugs software programs for databases, applications, tools, and networks.

Overview

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is seeking a Senior Manager to lead the engineering team building and operating OCI’s cloud-scale DDoS protection platform and customer-facing DDoS product. You will collaborate on strategy, roadmap, and delivery for globally distributed detection and mitigation systems, while developing a high-performing team and driving operational excellence.

What you’ll own

• Define multi-quarter roadmap and quarterly plans for DDoS platform and product, aligned to OCI priorities and revenue goals.
• Make data-driven tradeoffs across feature velocity, resiliency, and cost; manage build-vs-buy with clear ROI.
• Lead new service development from concept and business case through GA : PRDs, architecture, stage gates, resourcing, and launch readiness.
• Deliver low-latency, high-availability backend services for detection, classification, and mitigation across OCI’s global edge.
• Drive scalable data and control planes (policy, signaling, telemetry, orchestration) with strong fault isolation and resiliency.
• Guide anycast routing, BGP signaling, and traffic steering; integrate with OCI Networking, DNS, and edge services.
• Oversee capacity modeling, scale testing, and multi-region readiness.
• Establish and meet SLOs / SLAs and KPIs; ensure on-call health, incident readiness / response, and rigorous post-incident improvements.
• Champion automation-first operations : CI / CD, test frameworks, canary / blue-green releases, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Build robust observability (metrics, logs, traces) and near-real-time telemetry / streaming pipelines for detection at scale.
• Security, compliance, and risk
• Govern threat modeling, architecture reviews, and risk remediation; ensure auditability and policy adherence for Tier 0 services.
• Embed security and privacy by design; enforce zero trust principles and secure service-to-service communication (mTLS, policy).
• Hire, onboard, and grow a diverse, high-performing team; set clear OKRs, provide ongoing coaching and feedback, and drive career paths and succession planning.
• Mentor senior ICs and emerging leaders; establish technical ladders, design reviews, and knowledge-sharing rituals.
• Cross-functional leadership and communications
• Partner closely with Product, SRE, Networking, Architecture, and Security to land integrated capabilities and resilient outcomes.
• Provide crisp executive updates on status, risks, mitigations, and outcomes.

Basic qualifications

• 10+ years in network / security or backend engineering, including 4+ years leading engineering teams delivering production-critical services at scale.
• Proven delivery of large-scale DDoS or network security programs in cloud, hyperscale, or ISP environments.
• Strong systems and distributed design skills : concurrency, performance, resiliency, API design, and fault isolation.
• Deep networking fundamentals : TCP / IP, IPv4 / IPv6, BGP; DNS / DHCP understanding; ability to guide architectural decisions.
• Hands-on fluency with automation-first operations and DevOps at scale : CI / CD, automated testing, rollout / rollback, config management, and IaC (e.g., Terraform).
• Proficiency with one or more : Java, Go, Python, C++, or Rust; strong preference for Java for control-plane / services.
• Demonstrated leadership in incident management, resilience engineering, observability, and operational maturity.
• Excellent stakeholder management and executive communication; data-driven prioritization and tradeoff decision-making.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with anycast routing, traffic steering, multi-region service readiness, and capacity / scalability modeling.
• Exposure to SDN, programmable data planes, or hardware mitigation platforms.
• Advanced telemetry / streaming for near-real-time detection (e.g., high-rate packet / flow analytics).
• Containerization / orchestration and secure service-to-service communication (mTLS, policy).
• Familiarity with zero trust, segmentation, and modern security architectures.
• Track record building inclusive teams; coaching frameworks; performance management best practices.

How you’ll have impact

• Protect OCI’s infrastructure availability with resilient, automated DDoS detection and mitigation at hyperscale.
• Launch and evolve customer-facing DDoS offerings that provide self-service policy, visibility, and strong SLAs.
• Raise engineering quality, automation coverage, and compliance maturity across the stack.
• Build and scale a world-class engineering organization grounded in security-by-design and operational excellence.

Ways of working

• Security and privacy by design with auditable controls; policy adherence from day one.
• Data-driven delivery with clear KPIs, SLOs, and stage gates from prototype to GA.
• Collaborative, inclusive engineering culture with design docs, code reviews, and continuous learning.