Sr. Director, Design Quality & Reliability – OCI Data Center Infrastructure

Oracle; Olympia (WA); On-site; USD 182,000 - 414,000; Full time

Job summary

Oracle is seeking a Sr. Director to partner with Construction, Supply Chain, Product Engineering, Operations, and strategic suppliers to ensure OCI infrastructure platforms meet aggressive reliability and lifecycle performance objectives.

The role leads a multidisciplinary team, defines organizational processes for quality and reliability, and drives improvements across the infrastructure lifecycle with data-driven decisions.

Qualifications

• 15 years of experience in quality, reliability engineering, or related leadership roles.
• 7 years leading large-scale engineering or quality organizations.
• Deep expertise in reliability engineering methodologies and statistical analysis techniques.

Responsibilities

• Establish and scale OCI’s Design Quality & Reliability organization for AI data center infrastructure.
• Develop the strategy, operating model, governance, metrics, and execution roadmap for the function.
• Lead cross-functional design reviews focused on reliability risk reduction and failure prevention.
• Establish reliability engineering methodologies including FMEA, fault tree analysis, accelerated life testing, and design-for-reliability practices.
• Define product quality benchmarks and reliability performance targets, including AFR, IDR, MTBF.

Skills

Quality leadership

Reliability engineering

Supplier quality

Design for reliability

Education

Advanced engineering degree

Job description

Job Description

The Sr. Director will partner closely with Construction, Supply Chain, Product Engineering, Operations, and strategic suppliers to ensure OCI infrastructure platforms consistently meet aggressive reliability, availability, and lifecycle performance objectives.

Key Responsibilities

Build and Lead the Function

• Establish and scale OCI’s Design Quality & Reliability organization for AI data center infrastructure.

• Develop the strategy, operating model, governance, metrics, and execution roadmap for the function.

• Build and lead a high-performing multidisciplinary team spanning reliability engineering, supplier quality, design assurance and validation,.

• Define organizational processes and standards for quality and reliability across the infrastructure lifecycle.

Design Quality & Reliability Leadership

• Ensure infrastructure designs meet OCI reliability, resiliency, maintainability, and lifecycle performance requirements.

• Drive design assurance processes that validate design intent against operational requirements and long-term reliability objectives.

• Lead cross-functional design reviews focused on reliability risk reduction, failure prevention.

• Establish reliability engineering methodologies including FMEA, fault tree analysis, accelerated life testing, and design-for-reliability practices.

Product Quality & Supplier Reliability

• Define qualification and acceptance criteria for critical infrastructure products and systems used in OCI data centers.

• Establish product quality benchmarks and reliability performance targets, including AFR (Annualized Failure Rate), IDR, MTBF, and other key reliability indicators.

• Develop supplier quality management frameworks and collaborate with strategic suppliers to improve product reliability and manufacturing quality.

• Support root cause analysis and corrective action processes for field failures and reliability excursions.

Metrics, Benchmarking & Continuous Improvement

• Develop KPI dashboards and measurement systems to benchmark design and product reliability performance across the OCI infrastructure portfolio.

• Analyze field performance data, warranty trends, operational incidents, and failure modes to identify systemic improvement opportunities.

• Establish data-driven processes to recommend and implement design, component, or supplier changes that improve quality, reliability, and operational efficiency.

• Benchmark OCI performance against hyperscale and industry best practices.

Cross-Functional Partnership

• Partner with Infrastructure Capacity Delivery, Operations, Supply Chain, and Product teams to ensure reliability objectives are embedded throughout the lifecycle.

• Influence strategic technology and supplier selection decisions using quality and reliability data.

• Provide executive-level reporting on reliability performance, risks, and improvement initiatives.

Responsibilities

Required Experience

• 15 years of experience in quality, reliability engineering, critical infrastructure, manufacturing quality, or related technical leadership roles.

• 7 years leading large-scale engineering or quality organizations.

• Experience building or transforming quality and reliability programs in hyperscale infrastructure, cloud, semiconductor, power systems, telecom, or mission-critical environments.

• Deep expertise in reliability engineering methodologies and statistical analysis techniques.

• Proven experience with supplier quality management and complex hardware ecosystems.

• Strong understanding of critical infrastructure systems including power distribution, cooling, controls, mechanical, and electrical systems.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in hyperscale data center infrastructure or cloud infrastructure environments.

• Familiarity with AFR, IDR, MTBF, and reliability growth methodologies.

• Experience with GW-scale infrastructure deployment programs.

• Demonstrated success driving measurable reliability improvements across large operational fleets.

• Advanced degree in Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field preferred.

Leadership Characteristics

• Strategic builder with the ability to create new functions and scale organizations.

• Data-driven decision maker with strong analytical rigor.

• Strong executive communication and influence skills.

• Bias for action and operational excellence.

• Collaborative leader capable of driving alignment across engineering, operations, and suppliers.

• Passion for quality, reliability, and continuous improvement at hyperscale.

Impact

This role will directly shape the reliability foundation of OCI’s next-generation infrastructure platform. The Sr. Director will establish the systems, standards, and culture that ensure OCI data center designs and infrastructure products achieve exceptional quality, operational resilience, and lifecycle performance at unprecedented scale.

Disclaimer:

Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $182,000 to $414,400 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle’s differing products, industries and lines of business.

Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:

1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion

2. Short term disability and long term disability

3. Life insurance and AD&D

4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)

5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts

6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits

7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match

8. Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.

9. 11 paid holidays

10. Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.

11. Paid parental leave

12. Adoption assistance

13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan

14. Financial planning and group legal

15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.

Career Level – M5

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