Senior Strategic Cloud Architect — AI Infrastructure

Oracle; Salem (OR); On-site; USD 170,000 - 284,000; Full time

Job summary

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is seeking a Master Principal or Distinguished Cloud Architect to join the Strategic Pursuits & Engagements team, driving strategic customer wins through expert AI infrastructure design and execution. You will lead high-stakes engagements, architect production-grade AI solutions, and prove differentiation with concrete value demonstrations.

The role requires deep cloud and distributed-systems expertise, with a strong focus on Kubernetes, multicloud connectivity, and

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in cloud infrastructure and distributed systems.
• Experience applying AI infrastructure to enterprise contexts.
• Ability to translate complex systems into competitive customer solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategic OCI opportunities with executive stakeholders.
• Architect differentiated AI infrastructure spanning AI inference, Kubernetes, CPUs/GPUs, and multicloud.
• Prove value with prototypes, benchmarks, and demos to influence decisions.
• Shape and operationalize strategy with reference architectures and pursuit playbooks.
• Be the technical authority in customer engagements.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Distributed systems

Kubernetes

Multicloud

Security & governance

Tools

KServe

vLLM

Triton

Ray

Envoy

Istio

OpenTelemetry

MLflow

Terraform/OpenTofu

Job description

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is seeking a Master Principal or Distinguished Cloud Architect to join the Strategic Pursuits & Engagements team, driving strategic customer wins through expert AI infrastructure design and execution. You will lead high-stakes engagements, architect production-grade AI solutions, and prove differentiation with concrete value demonstrations.

The role requires deep cloud and distributed-systems expertise, with a strong focus on Kubernetes, multicloud connectivity, and