Strategic AI Infrastructure Architect

Oracle; Lincoln (NE); On-site; USD 170,000 - 284,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Paid time off and vacation

401(k) Savings and Investment Plan

Paid holidays

Parental leave

Comprehensive benefits package

Job summary

Oracle US is seeking a Master Principal or Distinguished Cloud Architect to lead strategic pursuits within the Strategic Pursuits & Engagements team, translating OCI’s infrastructure strengths into decisive customer wins. The role combines deep cloud and AI infrastructure expertise with executive-facing leadership.

You will architect differentiated AI infrastructure, run prototypes and proofs of value, and drive field engagements from discovery to decision, shaping reference architectures and

Qualifications

• We are looking for a leader with deep cloud infrastructure and distributed systems experience.
• Ability to translate complex systems into customer value and strategic wins.
• Comfortable with Oracle, open-source, and competing cloud technologies.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategic OCI opportunities from discovery to decision.
• Architect differentiated AI infrastructure spanning AI inference, Kubernetes, CPU/GPU, and multi-cloud.
• Turn OCI capabilities into measurable customer value (cost, performance, resilience).
• Develop prototypes, benchmarks, and proofs of value for customer engagements.
• Collaborate across engineering, product, sales, partners, and field teams.

Skills

Large-scale cloud architecture

Kubernetes & cloud-native

Compute, network, storage

AI/ML infrastructure

Multicloud & distributed cloud

High availability & resilience

Performance engineering

Cloud economics (FinOps)

Security & governance

Open-source automation

Tools

Kubernetes

KServe

vLLM

Triton

Ray

Envoy

Istio

OpenTelemetry

MLflow

Terraform/OpenTofu

Job description

Oracle US is seeking a Master Principal or Distinguished Cloud Architect to lead strategic pursuits within the Strategic Pursuits & Engagements team, translating OCI’s infrastructure strengths into decisive customer wins. The role combines deep cloud and AI infrastructure expertise with executive-facing leadership.

You will architect differentiated AI infrastructure, run prototypes and proofs of value, and drive field engagements from discovery to decision, shaping reference architectures and