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.

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.

About the business 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.

The opportunity

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 Lead a New Engineering Organization

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

Responsibilities include building teams focused on:

Low-level platform software

Firmware integration

Storage qualification

Test automation

Hardware validation

Media reliability

Platform support engineering

Vendor co-design

This leader will hire key engineering managers and technical leaders while establishing the operating model for a new organization.

Lead the engineering of storage platforms deployed throughout OCI.

Areas include:

Media and related technologies (SSD, HDD, SMR, CMR, SATA, etc.)

Storage controllers

PCIe infrastructure

Hardware qualification

Platform validation

Manufacturing readiness

Deployment engineering

Fleet telemetry

The role will work closely with silicon and systems engineering teams to develop highly optimized hyperscale storage platforms.

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 organizations that bridge hardware and low-level systems software.

Lead Strategic Supplier Relationships

Own executive technical relationships with leading storage technology vendors

Technology roadmap alignment

Firmware collaboration

Supply planning

Product evaluations

Escalation management

Joint engineering initiatives

Establish engineering processes ensuring long-term reliability across OCI's global storage fleet.

SSD lifecycle management

Media qualification

Failure analysis

Fleet health monitoring

Reliability engineering

Predictive failure analytics

Vendor corrective actions

Hardware quality metrics

Lead evaluation and adoption of next-generation storage technologies including:

TLC, QLC and future NAND technologies

Emerging storage media

Computational storage

DPU-enabled storage architectures

CXL-enabled memory technologies

Next-generation storage interconnects

Advanced hardware acceleration

Partner with executive leadership to define OCI's three-to-seven-year storage platform strategy.

What you’ll bring

We are seeking an executive who combines deep technical credibility with proven experience leading large engineering organizations in hyperscale infrastructure or enterprise storage.

The ideal candidate has:

10+ years of engineering leadership experience

Executive leadership experience building and scaling engineering organizations

Deep expertise in storage hardware platforms

Experience spanning hardware, firmware, and low-level platform software

Strong understanding of hyperscale infrastructure architectures

Experience working directly with storage hardware suppliers

Demonstrated success delivering hardware platforms at scale

Experience owning hardware qualification and validation

Strong understanding of storage media technologies

Experience leading engineering managers and senior technical leaders

Education

A bachelor’s degree is preferred for this role. An advanced degree is a plus, but not essential.

Equal Opportunity

Oracle is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Oracle will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to applicable law.

Which includes being a United States Affirmative Action Employer