Manager, Storage Architect and Operations

OREGON EMPLOYMENT DEPARTMENT - Salem, OR

Part-time - Manager

Salem, OR

About the position

The Manager, Storage Architect and Operations role is designed for a technically proficient leader who will collaborate with existing leaders to drive innovation in storage services as part of Oracle's Cloud Infrastructure. This position involves managing projects, improving business operations, and mentoring junior engineers while ensuring the delivery of scalable and reliable storage solutions.

Responsibilities

• Recommend business operations process improvements and serve as an escalation point for all capacity issues for storage services.
• Develop analytical models to forecast resource usage and build out an 18-month capacity demand plan for each component.
• Drive execution for on-time, on-scope delivery of racks to the data centers and their subsequent installation, cabling, provisioning and ingestion by the service team.
• Work across internal teams and partner with them to ensure that storage services have adequate capacity available to them whenever needed.
• Partner with the Data Center Operations and other internal teams to determine when end-of-life hardware needs to be retired and drive the decommissioning program.
• Help define and deliver complex programs with competing priorities by influencing roadmaps and priorities of key stakeholders.
• Ensure that hardware resource requirements needed to support a particular program/initiative are in place.
• Provide on-going written and verbal status updates to senior leadership.
• Thrive and succeed in an innovative and fast-paced environment, and not be hindered by ambiguity or conflicting priorities.
• Anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate, and make tradeoffs, and balance the business needs versus technical constraints.
• Design and build storage services that are scalable, reliable, and performant.
• Develop architectures for new services and contribute to the strategic direction across our products.
• Build robust automation for the hands-off operation of services in production.
• Work with other Architects, Product Managers, Executives, and others to develop product definitions and roadmaps.
• Act as a leader in our organization; ensure engineering teams are aligned with strategic vision; drive consensus and understanding on technical issues.
• Drive customer-focused solutions to completion on time.
• Mentor junior engineers and help grow talent within our team.
• Provide technical guidance and constructive feedback to leadership, team members, and other stakeholders.
• Maintain both integration and production systems as part of an operations-focused culture.
• Raise the bar for engineering quality and best practices.
• Creating compelling value propositions for Oracle's solutions.

Requirements

• 10+ years of relevant engineering, architecture or development experience.
• Experience managing cloud development projects, especially in the storage space.
• Experience in high tech, S/W environment, familiarity with Compute/Storage solutions.
• Experience in data center operations.
• Experience with project planning.
• Experience operating cloud services or large distributed applications in production.
• Familiarity with data management systems such as databases (Oracle DB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra), and other open-source technologies (Elasticsearch, Redis, Etc.).