Senior Director, Core Infrastructure Engineering

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is building the next generation of hyperscale cloud infrastructure. As part of our continued investment in cloud storage, we are creating a new leadership organization responsible for defining the hardware platform that powers OCI Storage for years to come.

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is building the next generation of hyperscale cloud infrastructure. As part of our continued investment in cloud storage, we are creating a new leadership organization responsible for defining the hardware platform that powers OCI Storage for years to come. This newly created Senior Director leadership role will build and lead the Storage Media Layer organization, owning the strategy, engineering, qualification, vendor partnerships, and lifecycle management of the physical storage technologies deployed across OCI's global infrastructure.

This is a unique opportunity to build an organization from the ground up while influencing billions of dollars of infrastructure investment and the future architecture of one of the world's largest cloud platforms.

Oracle is a global leader in cloud infrastructure, enterprise applications, and mission-critical technology solutions that power governments, enterprises, and institutions worldwide. Oracle’s technologies support some of the world’s most sensitive workloads across healthcare, financial services, telecommunications, defense, manufacturing, and public sector environments.

This leader will establish and lead a new engineering organization responsible for the storage media strategy supporting OCI Storage. This organization will own the physical storage platform—including media selection and strategy, vendor partnerships, qualification, validation, reliability, and next-generation technology adoption. The organization will be built from scratch and will include engineering leaders across platform software, media qualification, test automation, vendor engineering, and operational support.

The leader will remain close to technology while operating at executive scale, partnering with storage engineering, silicon engineering, supply chain, and executive leadership to define OCI's long-term storage hardware roadmap.

Lead the long-term strategy and execution for the platforms powering OCI Storage.

Responsibilities include:

Defining multi-year storage hardware and media roadmaps;
Evaluating emerging storage technologies and architectures;
Driving hardware platform standardization across OCI;
Balancing performance, reliability, density, power efficiency, and total cost of ownership;
Partnering with software engineering teams to optimize hardware/software integration.

Build and scale a world-class engineering organization responsible for the storage hardware.

• Low-level platform software
• Firmware integration
• Storage qualification
• Test automation
• Hardware validation
• Media reliability
• Platform support engineering
• Vendor co-design

Lead the engineering of storage platforms deployed throughout OCI.

• Media and related technologies (SSD, HDD, SMR, CMR, SATA, etc.)
• Storage controllers
• PCIe infrastructure
• Hardware qualification
• Platform validation
• Manufacturing readiness
• Deployment engineering
• Fleet telemetry

Partner closely with hardware and silicon teams on software operating near the hardware layer.

• Storage firmware integration
• Hardware enablement
• Platform diagnostics
• Validation tooling
• Performance optimization
• Candidates should be comfortable leading…