Senior Manager, Core Infrastructure Engineering- Nashville, TN

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Description

This role is based in Nashville, TN.

The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) team builds and manages a suite of massive scale, integrated cloud services in a broadly distributed, multi-tenant cloud environment. OCI is committed to providing the best in cloud products that meet the needs of our customers who are tackling some of the world's biggest challenges.

This is an opportunity to become a part of Virtual Networking Control Plane organization, a core OCI team that own and manage networking resources in virtual and functional layers. We serve internal customers in OCI and external customers that use virtual networking APIs and workflows.

Virtual Networking team delivers Network-as-a-Service that handle planning, provisioning, life cycle management and security of our customers' network infrastructure. We are shaping the management of network infrastructure by providing the flexibility and simplicity of a virtual network but with the manageability and control of a software defined network (SDN).

• Manages team delivering scalable distributed systems and components on a 2-4 quarter horizon.
• Standardizes engineering practices and scalability requirements across teams; oversees optimization for high throughput, hyper scale workloads; and ensures effective use of distributed state tools and data plane platforms.
• Guides teams to design fault tolerant, in service upgradable systems, set SLO aligned durability/availability targets, and implement resiliency mechanisms (load shedding, throttling, rate limiting).
• Provides oversight for KPIs, telemetry, and moderately complex dashboards; directs design of functional/correctness requirements, fault injection tests, and replication/synchronization strategies.
• Ensures proactive incident management, operational readiness, and on call coverage; drives encryption/access control practices, remediation plans, and compliance documentation.
• Oversees development and maintenance of automation/IaC and partners with teams on change management plans enabling safe patching, updates, and rollbacks.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

System Design & Architecture
- System Scalability:

• Manages the development and implementation of scalable distributed systems and components across multiple teams, including the effective use of distributed state management tools.
• Oversees code and/or system optimization efforts for large-scale data processing and high-throughput requirements within and across teams to support hyper-scale systems.
• Guides teams to define scalability requirements for owned components and ensures design and implementation requirements are met.
• Ensures team accurately designs performance and load testing.

System Design & Architecture
- System Reliability Design:

• Manages the strategy for building fault-tolerant components and systems capable of withstanding in-service updates by guiding the implementation of redundancy, replication, and automatic failover mechanisms.
• Develops design strategies for systems to effectively handle service disruptions (e.g., network partitions) by prioritizing consistency, availability, or partition tolerance.
• Leads implementation and optimization initiatives across teams for approaches to handle network unreliability, including load-shedding, throttling, and rate-limiting.
• Guides teams to design components and systems that are durable and adhere to service level objectives (SLOs), setting expectations for availability and durability of other computing services within the department.

System Design & Architecture
- System Reliability Performance:

• Provides oversight in defining key performance indicators (KPIs) and telemetry to identify gaps or issues in running systems.
• Oversees the building and customization of moderately complex dashboards, telemetry systems, and alerting mechanisms to proactively monitor components and system health.

System Design & Architecture
- Correctness / Availability:

• Oversees the design and implementation of functional and correctness requirements for feature sets and/or systems in new or existing systems.
• Guides teams to design complex test scenarios (e.g., fault-injection, brown-out) to evaluate system correctness.
• Directs implementation strategies for data replication and synchronization techniques to maintain data integrity and availability.

Operational Troubleshooting & Incident Management:

• Guides teams to be proactive when diagnosing, debugging, and resolving issues in active components and systems to support ongoing operation.
• Ensures teams leverage expertise to prevent interruptions, ensuring no maintenance windows are required for customers and users when resolving issues.
• Oversees operational readiness protocol and ensures teams remain knowledgeable of owned components and systems to support effective troubleshooting and performance.
• Oversees and approves schedules for operational support rotations.

Compliance & Security:

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