Director, AI Core Infra Engineering

Oracle; Lansing (MI); On-site; USD 122,000 - 306,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Bonus and equity potential

Paid time off and holidays

Comprehensive benefits package

Job summary

Oracle is seeking a seasoned Core Infrastructure Engineering Leader to guide a high-performing team responsible for delivering healthy, high‑performance GPU/AI/ML infrastructure. You will own end‑to‑end technical customer execution, from POCs to post‑sale support, and build automation tools to streamline provisioning and monitoring.

You will partner with OCI Services and sales to provide reliable, scalable infrastructure, tune performance, and mentor engineers.

Qualifications

• 7 years of senior software engineering leadership or related experience.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with cross-functional teamwork.
• Demonstrated leadership and people management skills.
• Proven experience building distributed/cloud software engineering solutions.
• Experience with automation and cloud tooling (Ansible, Terraform, Python, Docker, Kubernetes).
• BS or MS degree or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of Core Infrastructure Engineers responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining the infrastructure that supports our largest GPU/AI/ML customers.
• Drive the design, development, testing, validation, and deployment readiness of our automated GPU Cluster deployment tool with Slurm and/or Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE).
• Build collaborative relationships with OCI Services team, customer and sales team to deliver reliable, scalable infrastructures. Act as a technical liaison between customers, core engineering teams, and support.
• Work with OCI Strategic customers to grow our business in pre/post sales stages in a technical infra expert role.
• Take ownership of problems and work to identify solutions. Ability to think through the solution and identify/document potential issues impacting your customers.
• Optimize infrastructure performance by tuning parameters, optimizing resource utilization, and implementing caching and data pre-processing techniques.
• Troubleshoot infrastructure performance, scalability, and reliability issues and implement solutions to mitigate risks and minimize downtime.
• Document infrastructure designs, configurations, and procedures to facilitate knowledge sharing and ensure maintainability.
• As a trusted customer advocate, you will help customers/partners understand best practices around advanced GPU solutions, and how to migrate their workloads to the cloud.
• Educate customers of all sizes on the value proposition of Oracle Cloud and participate in deep architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud.

Skills

Leadership

Cloud infrastructure

Cross-functional communication

People management

Problem solving

Education

BS or MS degree in a relevant field

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

Python

Docker

Kubernetes

Networking concepts

Job description

Oracle is seeking a seasoned Core Infrastructure Engineering Leader to guide a high-performing team responsible for delivering healthy, high‑performance GPU/AI/ML infrastructure. You will own end‑to‑end technical customer execution, from POCs to post‑sale support, and build automation tools to streamline provisioning and monitoring.

You will partner with OCI Services and sales to provide reliable, scalable infrastructure, tune performance, and mentor engineers.