Director, Site Reliability (JoinOCI-Leader)

$120,300 - $291,900/Yr

Oracle - Seattle, WA

Full-time - Director

Seattle, WA

Publishing Industries

About the position

Are you someone with a passion for taking on big challenges? Are you interested in owning large-scale, highly distributed systems and building new products from scratch? If so, then Virtual Networking in Oracle's Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) has a great opportunity. These services' stability, reliability, and feature richness are critical to ensure the customer workloads run seamlessly on OCI cloud. The leader will be responsible for building new services to simplify the connectivity model for other use cases and customer scenarios. We're looking for strong leaders with a background in distributed systems, networking, and a passion for customer satisfaction to help build and maintain cloud-scale services. As a Director, you will apply your experience and technical depth in creating a long-lasting strategic direction to build innovative products/features to meet customer needs and to improve the stability and operability of the services. You will use your organizational excellence and leadership skills to influence the prioritization and decision-making across the broader networking organization to successfully deliver business value. You will be responsible for recruiting and hiring top talent to grow the team to meet an ambitious charter. In this role, you will define service strategy and roadmap by partnering with product management, represent your organization at the VP level, and ensure that the services meet the OCI scale. Collaborating with your team, peers, various organizations, and senior leadership will be essential to identify product and customer requirements, coordinate delivery, and integrate solutions to meet business needs. Your ability to influence other teams will be key to your success in this role.

Responsibilities

• Define service(s) strategy and roadmap by partnering with product management.
• Represent your organization at the VP level.
• Operate large scale software fleets to ensure the services meet the OCI scale.
• Collaborate with your team, peers, various organizations, and senior leadership to identify product and customer requirements.
• Coordinate delivery and integrate solutions to meet business needs.
• Recruit and build out a capable and cohesive engineering team who can deliver complex projects on time.

Requirements

• 6 years experience in managing large-scale organizations, preferably with multiple layers of management.
• 10 years of designing, delivering, and operating large scale distributed systems in production environments.
• Demonstrable success mentoring and growing engineers and people managers to senior levels.
• Prior experience in owning and managing SaaS/IaaS services.
• Strong knowledge of networking, distributed systems, and high-performance computing fundamentals.
• Strong communication skills and analytical skills.
• Thorough understanding of product development.
• BS or MS degree or equivalent experience relevant to functional area.
• 8 or more years of software engineering or related experience.

Nice-to-haves

• Entrepreneurial and fast-paced mentality.
• Exceptional communication skills.
• Ability to collaborate while acting as a thought leader in your area of expertise.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion.
• Short term disability and long term disability.
• Life insurance and AD&D.
• Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child).
• Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts.
• Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits.
• 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match.
• Flexible Vacation provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried position.
• 11 paid holidays.
• Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire.
• Paid parental leave.
• Adoption assistance.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• Financial planning and group legal.
• Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner, and pet insurance.