Director, Core Infrastructure Engineering

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The Director, Core Infrastructure Engineering leads a multi-geography software engineering organization building and operating core network-control, health, planning, and automation platforms for OCI’s Internet and Backbone infrastructure. This leader is accountable for technical strategy, organizational execution, service health, and cross-functional alignment across engineering, network operations, product, and planning stakeholders.

The organization owns business-critical systems including the Internet Route Controller (IRC), Backbone Health Reporter (BHR), Internet Probe Management System, Network Planning Service (NPS), Backbone control-plane services such as Path Computation Engine and Virtual Route Reflector controllers, and platform automation capabilities.

Qualifications

Career Level - M4

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

Lead and develop a distributed engineering organization spanning India and the United States, including engineering managers and senior technical leaders.
Set the multi-year technical strategy and roadmap for network-control, observability, planning, and automation platforms supporting Internet and Backbone engineering.
Ensure critical services are reliable, scalable, secure, and operationally mature, with clear ownership, on-call readiness, alerting, documentation, and service-level metrics.
Stabilize and evolve inherited business-critical platforms, balancing operational health and KTLO reduction with committed roadmap delivery.
Drive software-defined network-control capabilities that improve traffic engineering, congestion mitigation, path health assessment, incident response, and network planning.
Translate complex engineering investments into measurable business outcomes, including improved reliability, reduced operational toil, faster mitigation, and better customer impact.
Build strong operating mechanisms for planning, prioritization, execution reviews, risk management, and executive communication.
Partner with Internet Edge, Backbone Engineering, Physical Networking, Network Management, DDoS, Product, and Planning teams to align roadmaps, dependencies, and operational requirements.
Represent the organization in senior technical and business forums, clearly communicating tradeoffs, delivery risk, service health, and recommendations.
Hire, retain, mentor, and develop high-performing engineers and managers; create durable team charters and delegate ownership effectively.
Foster a culture of customer focus, operational excellence, technical rigor, ownership, and continuous improvement.

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