GVP, Core Infrastructure Engineering

Leads an organization with varied remit across hyperscale core infrastructure within a single LOB. Focuses on 3–5 year strategy and execution to architect, build, and operate fault‑tolerant, scalable, reliable, and efficient distributed systems in cloud environments. Establishes enterprise standards for availability, performance, security, and cost efficiency; harmonizes strategies across regions; and ensures uninterrupted service for customers, users, and dependent services.

Responsibilities

• Define organizational infrastructure strategy and operating model; align portfolio investments (compute, storage, networking, orchestration, service meshes, data planes) to LOB objectives, SLOs, and cost‑to‑serve targets; approve multi‑region deployment and modernization roadmaps.
• Establish enterprise architecture and operational standards for fault tolerance, scalability, reliability, and efficiency (redundancy models, quorum/consensus, partition tolerance, autoscaling, capacity guardrails, failure domains); mandate adherence and audit compliance.
• Govern resilience engineering: set policy for error budgets, game days/chaos testing, canary/blue‑green rollouts, and rapid rollback; ensure post‑incident learning reduces recurrence and time‑to‑mitigate.
• Institutionalize automation‑first operations (IaC, CI/CD for infrastructure/services, policy‑as‑code, golden configs); raise conformance and reduce toil through platformized capabilities and measurable adoption.
• Direct observability and performance strategy: define SLO/SLI and performance budgets; require deep telemetry (metrics/logs/traces/profiles) to drive reliability, tail‑latency reduction, and capacity headroom.
• Chair design and release governance for high‑impact infrastructure changes; adjudicate trade‑offs among reliability, scalability, security, performance, and cost; issue binding decisions and exception frameworks.
• Ensure security, privacy, and regulatory obligations are embedded (hardening, identity/least privilege, encryption/secrets, SBOM/dependency governance) with audit‑ready evidence in delivery pipelines.
• Set organization‑wide KPIs/OKRs and executive dashboards (availability/SLO attainment, MTTR/MTTA, change failure/rollback rate, latency/throughput, capacity forecast accuracy, automation coverage, cost‑to‑run); intervene where risk or value signals warrant.
• Harmonize engagement with Product/Platform Engineering, SRE/Operations, Networking, Security/Privacy, Data/Storage, and Capacity Planning to avoid service interruptions and accelerate value realization.
• Optimize vendor/tooling, hardware platforms, and cloud spend; manage supply/resiliency risks and lifecycle refresh; verify third‑party alignment with Oracle security, privacy, and vendor policies.
• Manage multi-year budgets, global headcount, and vendor relationships; define and track key performance indicators (KPIs); mentor Senior Directors and Vice Presidents, championing an inclusive, safety-first, and high-performance culture across the organization.
• Ensure all practices and initiatives are consistently operated in the best interests of Oracle and its customers, driving trust, innovation, and sustained business value.

Qualifications

Typically 20+ years expereince in infrastructure/platform engineering and 10+ years leading Core Infrastructure Engineering or similar organizations.

Job related KSA’s: Hyperscale distributed systems architecture; cloud compute/storage/network orchestration; resilience and performance engineering; SRE governance (SLO/SLI, incident/change); automation (IaC, CI/CD, policy‑as‑code); observability and capacity planning; security/privacy‑by‑design and compliance; cost optimization and supply resilience; documentation/knowledge systems; vendor and financial stewardship; cross‑functional leadership and executive communication.

Possible KPI’s for job: Availability/SLO attainment and error budget burn; MTTA/MTTR and incident recurrence; change failure/rollback rate; latency/throughput/tail‑latency improvements; capacity forecast accuracy and headroom; automation coverage and conformance; configuration compliance and drift reduction; security/privacy gate pass rates and SBOM compliance; cost‑to‑run efficiency and platform ROI; documentation/runbook freshness; stakeholder satisfaction and leadership bench health.