Software Development Director

Job Description

Essential Qualifications
12+ years total experience; 6+ years leading DevOps/Cloud Engineering teams

Proven delivery of AI-enabled or autonomous-ops platforms at enterprise scale.

Deep, hands-on expertise in:

Gen AI / NLP stacks, model fine-tuning, prompt engineering, and ML-Ops (Kubeflow, MLflow).

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (Resource Manager, OKE, Functions, Monitoring, Logging, WAF, IAM)

CI/CD toolchains (Jenkins, GitLab/GH Actions, Artifactory, SonarQube)

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi)

Containerization & Service Mesh (Docker, Helm, Istio/Linkerd)

Experience integrating data pipelines & event streaming (Kafka, GoldenGate, OCI Streaming) with API-centric services.

Strong grasp of security & compliance frameworks (NIST, SOC 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP advantageous).

Preferred / Differentiators Published or presented on Agentic AI, AIOps, or autonomous systems.
Certification: OCI Architect Professional, Kubernetes CKA/CKS, or AWS/Azure Solutions Architect.

Experience migrating legacy ERP / Fusion Middleware workloads into container or serverless paradigms.

Familiarity with FinOps tooling and show-back models.

Leadership Competencies
Systems Thinker - designs for scale, failure, and evolution.

Servant Leader - elevates team through coaching, not command-and-control.

Data-Driven Decision-Maker - sets hypotheses, measures, and iterates.

Change Catalyst - drives cultural adoption of AI and automation across ops teams.

Responsibilities

AI & Agentic Frameworks

Productize internal agent mesh for predictive Ops (anomaly detection, RCA summarization, auto-remediation).

Integrate Gen AI APIs, LLM orchestration (LangChain, OCI Generative AI Service), and ML-Ops pipelines.

Strategy & Road-Mapping

Define the multi-year vision for agent-based Ops, Generative AI capabilities, and autonomous tooling.

Align roadmaps with product, security, and enterprise architecture teams.

Engineering Leadership

Lead 25-40 engineers (DevOps, backend, ML/AI, SRE) across multiple time zones.

Foster a DevSecOps culture: blameless post-mortems, Blue-Angels-style debriefs, continuous learning.

Platform Delivery

Architect and oversee multi-cloud CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Bitbucket) and OCI Resource Manager (Terraform).

Drive Kubernetes (OKE), Serverless (OCI Functions), and API Gateway adoption.

Operational Excellence

Implement observability-as-code: Logging, Monitoring, Distributed Tracing, SLO dashboards.

Enforce security by design-automated policy scanning, secrets rotation, zero-trust network rules.

Stakeholder Management

Present quarterly OKR outcomes to exec leadership; translate technical KPIs into business value.

Collaborate with InfoSec, Compliance, and PMO to meet regulatory and audit requirements.

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: $122,500 to $291,800 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 - M4

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