Sr. Director, Engineering - OCI Storage Innovation

HITEC; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 194,000 - 414,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Short/long-term disability insurance

Life insurance and AD&D

Supplemental life insurance

Job summary

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) seeks an engineering executive to lead the Storage organization, guiding production services and multi-year initiatives at global scale. You will define storage evolution for AI, agentic computing and enterprise workloads while building high-performing teams.

The role requires deep distributed-systems expertise, proven leadership, and the ability to drive transformational programs across OCI Storage and related OCI leaders.

Qualifications

• Distributed systems architecture, scalability, resiliency and operational excellence.
• Experience leading organizations of 50+ engineers and building engineering leaders.
• Experience with large-scale modernization or architectural refactors.

Responsibilities

• Lead a geographically distributed engineering organization for OCI Storage.
• Ensure reliability and continuous improvement of production systems.
• Deliver large-scale, multi-year infrastructure initiatives and incubate new storage products.
• Drive evolution of next-generation storage platforms across Oracle's global cloud infrastructure.
• Lead architectural decisions on distributed systems, data movement, caching, latency, and durability vs availability.
• Mentor and develop engineering leaders; collaborate with OCI leaders to define long-term strategy.

Job description

Drive strategy, build relationships, and solidify Oracle’s position as the cloud leader for global business.

About the role

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is seeking an experienced engineering executive to lead the next evolution of its Storage organization. This is a unique opportunity to lead one of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's most strategically important engineering organizations during a period of rapid transformation.

This leader will oversee engineering teams responsible for maintaining production services, completing several large multi-year strategic initiatives, and incubating the next generation of storage technologies. You'll help define how cloud storage evolves to support AI, agentic computing, and the next generation of enterprise applications while leading teams responsible for services that operate at global scale.

The ideal candidate combines deep technical expertise in distributed systems with a proven ability to build high-performing engineering organizations, execute large-scale transformations, and inspire teams to solve some of cloud computing's most complex infrastructure challenges.

About the business

At Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), we build the future of cloud infrastructure for enterprises around the world. We combine the agility of a startup with the scale, security, and customer focus of one of the world's largest technology companies.

Storage is a foundational service within OCI and is undergoing significant transformation. As AI, agentic computing, and next-generation cloud workloads reshape how data is stored, accessed, and managed, Oracle is investing heavily in reimagining the storage platform for the future. This is an opportunity to lead engineering at the center of that transformation and influence technology that supports both Oracle's largest enterprise customers and the broader OCI ecosystem.

Responsibilities

What you’ll do

• Lead a large, geographically distributed engineering organization responsible for OCI Storage innovation.
  • Ensuring the reliability and continuous improvement of existing production systems.
  • Delivering several large-scale, multi-year strategic infrastructure initiatives.
  • Building new product incubations that will shape the future of OCI Storage.
• Drive the evolution of next-generation storage platforms designed to scale across Oracle's global cloud infrastructure.
• Lead architectural decisions involving distributed systems, large-scale data movement, caching strategies, latency optimization, scalability, cost efficiency, and durability versus availability tradeoffs.
• Create organizational capacity that enables engineering teams to continue innovating while maintaining operational excellence.
• Partner closely with engineering leaders across OCI to define long-term technical strategy and execution.
• Build, mentor, and develop high-performing engineering leaders and distributed teams while fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and technical excellence.

What you’ll bring

• Proven success leading engineering organizations responsible for large-scale distributed systems with a focus lower in the technology stack.
• Experience managing organizations of 50+ engineers, with demonstrated success building and developing engineering leaders.
• Experience leading large-scale system modernization or architectural refactoring initiatives.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems architecture, scalability, resiliency, and operational excellence.
• Experience solving complex infrastructure challenges involving large-scale data movement, recovery, throttling, caching, and system reliability.
• Demonstrated ability to balance execution of existing production workloads while investing in future platform innovation.
• Experience leading engineering organizations within major cloud providers such as OCI, AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud.

Year-one success criteria

• Deliver key milestones across multiple strategic infrastructure initiatives while maintaining operational excellence.
• Improve organizational scalability, engineering efficiency, and technical execution.
• Establish a clear vision for the next generation of OCI Storage architecture and build momentum behind future product incubation efforts.
• Develop and retain a high-performing engineering leadership team capable of supporting Oracle's continued cloud growth.

Qualifications

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: $193,600 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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