Senior Manager, Core Infrastructure Engineering- Nashville, TN

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.