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Overview

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is seeking a Senior Director, Software Development to build and lead the technical direction for foundational OCI security and trust services. This leader will guide teams responsible for identity, authentication, authorization, service-to-service trust, KMS, secrets, KES, PKI, certificates, automation, monitoring, control plane technologies, operational tooling, and cloud service efficiency. The role combines organization building, executive technical strategy, operational excellence, and talent development for services that support OCI's global cloud footprint and the internal and customer-facing products that depend on it.

Why OCI

OCI is building secure, scalable cloud infrastructure for customers that depend on trust, resilience, and operational rigor at global scale. This role offers the opportunity to shape core security and trust foundations, influence engineering practices across OCI, and build a high-performing organization around services that sit at the heart of customer confidence and cloud reliability.

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Disclaimer:
Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.
Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only
US: Hiring Range in USD from: $193,600 to $414,400 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 - M5

Responsibilities

• Build, scale, and lead an engineering organization supporting OCI security and trust services.
• Define technical strategy and execution plans for identity, authentication, authorization, service-to-service trust, KMS, secrets, KES, PKI, and certificates.
• Drive development of monitoring platforms, automation frameworks, control planes, and operational tooling.
• Partner closely with OCI, Security, Architecture, and Product organizations to align priorities and delivery plans.
• Improve operational efficiency through automation, observability, engineering excellence, and cloud service efficiency initiatives.
• Develop leaders and engineering talent across multiple organizational levels.
• Oversee organizational planning, budgeting, resource allocation, and headcount growth.
• Drive operational readiness, reliability, scalability, and customer-focused outcomes for security-critical cloud services.
• Establish engineering best practices and a culture of accountability, innovation, and service ownership.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• 15+ years of software engineering experience.
• Experience leading managers and large engineering organizations.
• Demonstrated success building teams and organizations from the ground up.
• Experience operating large-scale distributed cloud services.
• Strong systems architecture and operational leadership experience.
• Experience with monitoring, automation, observability, infrastructure platforms, or control plane technologies.
• Proven ability to drive organizational transformation and scale engineering operations.
• Strong executive communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as OCI, AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud preferred.