Director, Data Center Reliability Engineering

Job Description

As a Senior Manager of Data Center Reliability Engineering, you will lead teams responsible for improving system availability through analytics, predictive maintenance, and standardized reliability practices. This role sets the methods and metrics for reliability across the portfolio. This role executes organizational strategy around evaluating scoped sites against Oracle's requirements for data centers. Implements organizational collaboration strategy with multidisciplinary internal and external teams to design the power, cooling, and air flow designs for the data center infrastructure. Executes organizational processes around failure analyses and responses to emergencies. Implements assessment processes for data center infrastructure and for the evaluation of plans provided by the Build and Engineering Services (BES) team. Implements organizational strategy around determining cooling requirements and architectural tradeoffs to ensure the white space design meets their requirements to manage variables such as heat, humidity, and air flow. Drives organizational research goals around innovative new data center designs, materials, and/or methods.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

• Lead reliability engineering and analytics teams across multiple sites.

• Standardize and enforce FMEA, RCA, and continuous improvement methodologies.

• Oversee deployment of monitoring, analytics, and automation tools supporting reliability programs.

• Define, track, and report reliability KPIs to executive and global operations leadership.

• Ensure corrective actions are implemented, verified, and sustained.

• Develop engineers and analysts in disciplined, data-driven problem solving.

Ideal Candidate Profile

• Senior experience in reliability engineering, maintenance engineering, or uptime-critical environments.

• Strong background in analytics, RCA rigor, and reliability frameworks.

Skills and Competencies

• Strong technical leadership and stakeholder influence.

• Comfortable translating analysis into executive-level decisions.

Why Oracle Cloud Infrastructure?

• Global impact at scale: Contribute directly to how mission-critical OCI data centers operate across regions and continents, influencing infrastructure reliability, security, sustainability, and long-term capacity growth.

• Technically rigorous environment: Work alongside experienced engineers, automation specialists, and compliance teams in a rapidly scaling hyperscale cloud infrastructure, where disciplined execution and technical depth matter.

• Culture built on operational excellence: Join an organization that values safety, process rigor, clear accountability, and continuous improvement as foundational to protecting uptime and customer trust.

• Long-term career development: Benefit from internal mobility, role-based technical training, and development opportunities designed for professionals building long-term careers in cloud infrastructure and facilities operations.

Qualifications

Disclaimer:

Certain US customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization and occupational health mandates.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $120,100 to $251,600 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.
Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:
1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
2. Short term disability and long term disability
3. Life insurance and AD&D
4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
8. 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. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
9. 11 paid holidays
10. 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.
11. Paid parental leave
12. Adoption assistance
13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan
14. Financial planning and group legal
15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.
Career Level - M3

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