Sr. Principal Field Systems Engineer

About the role

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is building the next generation of cloud and AI infrastructure at global scale. This role focuses on operationalizing strategic infrastructure programs across various departments.

Responsibilities

• Drive strategic GPU and cloud infrastructure delivery initiatives from planning through operational handoff, ensuring clear ownership, milestones, risks, dependencies, and decision points.
• Translate ambiguous infrastructure priorities into practical execution plans, governance mechanisms, readiness criteria, and operating rhythms.
• Partner across engineering, supply chain, data center operations, capacity planning, finance, and tooling teams to identify blockers and drive resolution.
• Build scalable processes that improve how OCI plans, tracks, escalates, and delivers critical infrastructure programs.
• Establish operational readiness frameworks for high-density GPU and cloud infrastructure deployments, including site readiness, hardware availability, network readiness, validation, and handoff.
• Identify bottlenecks across people, process, systems, and data; create mechanisms that improve cycle time, accountability, and delivery predictability.
• Develop executive-level reporting, dashboards, and operational telemetry that clearly show progress, risks, blocked capacity, and decisions needed.
• Drive cross-functional issue resolution in high-pressure delivery environments where ownership, root cause, or path forward may be unclear.
• Connect long-range infrastructure plans with operational execution requirements, including headcount, tooling, process maturity, and regional delivery capacity.
• Create durable operating mechanisms that continue to work after the immediate escalation or program milestone is complete.

Requirements

• Demonstrated strength turning ambiguity into structure, especially in complex environments with competing priorities, unclear ownership, and fast-changing business needs.
• Strong systems-thinking mindset, with the ability to understand how people, processes, data, tools, and organizational handoffs affect delivery outcomes.
• Prominent judgment in separating signal from noise, identifying the few issues that truly require escalation, intervention, or executive decision-making.
• High operational discipline, including comfort working through details, following up relentlessly, and ensuring commitments translate into measurable progress.
• Strong analytical orientation, with the ability to use data to clarify problems, test assumptions, measure execution health, and guide decision-making.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including experience preparing executive-level updates, recommendations, and decision materials.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, Operations, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Proven track record leading large, ambiguous, cross-functional initiatives as a senior individual contributor.
• Demonstrated experience managing milestones, dependencies, risks, escalations, and executive communications for complex programs.
• Experience building operating mechanisms, governance models, dashboards, or process improvements that improved measurable business outcomes.
• Strong analytical capability, including experience with operational metrics, advanced spreadsheets, dashboards, Jira reporting, or workflow automation.
• Comfort influencing senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams through facts, clarity, urgency, and trust rather than formal authority.
• Bias for action and ownership, with a track record of driving outcomes in environments where the path forward is not already defined.
• Practical process-improvement mindset, with the ability to create mechanisms that improve execution without adding unnecessary bureaucracy.
• Resilience and adaptability in high-pressure delivery environments where priorities shift, blockers emerge, and decisions need to be made with imperfect information.

Success Criteria

• Critical GPU and cloud infrastructure initiatives have clear owners, milestones, readiness gates, risks, dependencies, and executive decision paths.
• Delivery blockers are identified earlier, escalated with better clarity, and resolved faster across engineering, supply chain, data center operations, and planning teams.
• Strategic initiatives move from concept to execution with less ambiguity and stronger operational discipline.
• Executive stakeholders have a clear, accurate view of delivery health, blocked capacity, forecast risk, and decisions required.
• Infrastructure delivery processes become more repeatable, measurable, and scalable across regions and programs.
• Operational handoffs between planning, engineering, deployment, and site operations are cleaner and more accountable.
• OCI improves delivery predictability, reduces avoidable slippage, and strengthens readiness for high-priority AI and cloud infrastructure programs.
• The mechanisms you build continue to create value beyond a single escalation, launch, or executive review cycle.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in operational excellence, technical program management, deployment execution, change management, business operations, or systems/process transformation.
• Proven track record leading large, ambiguous, cross-functional initiatives as a senior individual contributor.
• Demonstrated experience managing milestones, dependencies, risks, escalations, and executive communications for complex programs.
• Experience building operating mechanisms, governance models, dashboards, or process improvements that improved measurable business outcomes.
• Strong analytical capability, including experience with operational metrics, advanced spreadsheets, dashboards, Jira reporting, or workflow automation.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including experience preparing executive-level updates, recommendations, and decision materials.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, Operations, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• High ownership, strong judgment, practical problem-solving ability, and a demonstrated track record of getting difficult things done across teams that do not directly report to you.

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
• Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits.
• 11 paid holidays
• Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
• Paid parental leave
• Adoption assistance
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Financial planning and group legal
• Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance