Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer

Oracle is a company providing AI and cloud solutions that bring together data, infrastructure, applications, and expertise. The Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer will design and implement accelerated computing and AI solutions on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, architecting GPU, HPC, and AI platforms for strategic customers. The role also provides technical consulting, customer advocacy, infrastructure optimization, incident response, and collaboration with engineering teams to improve OCI solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Work directly with strategic customers and partners across industry verticals to onboard, integrate, and optimize solutions on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
• Architect and deploy large-scale GPU, HPC, and AI infrastructure on OCI using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Slurm, Kubernetes, and other automation frameworks
• Build automated solutions for cluster provisioning, software deployment, infrastructure as code, performance monitoring, and capacity planning
• Collaborate with Oracle’s largest enterprise customers to define, tailor, and validate solutions that meet high-performance computing, AI, and accelerated computing requirements
• Support LLM-based applications, agentic AI systems, and robotic AI platforms from architecture and design through deployment and production readiness
• Act as a trusted technical advisor to customers, partners, Oracle sales teams, support teams, and engineering organizations
• Own and promote architecture best practices across customer environments and internal Oracle teams
• Identify, document, and communicate technical risks, design gaps, dependencies, and potential customer-impacting issues
• Author SME-level technical collateral, reference architectures, deployment guides, and implementation patterns to enable repeatable customer solutions
• Partner with OCI engineering teams to influence product direction, validate new features, and integrate new OCI services into customer-ready solutions
• Troubleshoot infrastructure performance, scalability, reliability, and availability issues; implement mitigations to reduce risk and minimize downtime
• Participate in service-impacting incidents, drive rapid remediation, own root cause analysis, and ensure corrective actions are completed
• Serve as a technical escalation path for support teams requiring direct customer engagement
• Define and improve processes, procedures, and change-management practices to reduce operational risk for strategic customers
• Act as the strategic customer technical advocate when working with engineering teams to improve OCI reliability, usability, and operational readiness
• Stay current on emerging cloud, AI, GPU, HPC, and infrastructure technologies; evaluate their relevance to OCI customer architectures and internal workflows
• Document infrastructure designs, configurations, operational procedures, and lessons learned to support knowledge sharing, maintainability, and repeatability

Requirements:

• Applicants are required to read, write, and speak the following languages: English
• Experience in scripting and automation using tools like Python, Ansible, Terraform, and/or Kubernetes
• Solid understanding of networking concepts, security principles, and best practices
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams and convey technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
• Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to troubleshoot complex issues and drive resolution in a fast-paced environment
• Strong documentation skills with experience documenting infrastructure designs, configurations, procedures, and troubleshooting steps to facilitate knowledge sharing, ensure maintainability, and enhance team collaboration
• 5+ years of experience in Architecture, Operations, and/or System Engineering
• Recent technical experience designing and/or deploying infrastructure and high-performance computing (including GPU technology) or at least one major public cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure, OCI)
• Linux skills with hands-on experience in Oracle Linux/RHEL/CentOS, Ubuntu, and Debian distributions, including system administration, package management, shell scripting, and performance optimization
• Muti-Cloud Management exposure is an added advantage
• Proficiency in at least one of the programming languages such as Python, Rust, Go, Java, or Scala
• Demonstrated ability in writing as indicated by publications of blogs, white-papers, or other technical collateral and presenting to technical and business audiences
• You must be able to demonstrate a track record of improving customer service uptime or satisfaction
• At least 5 years experience consulting/interacting with customers, including architects, C level, etc
• Familiarity with DevOps practices and tools for continuous integration, deployment, and monitoring (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Prometheus)
• Strong experience with High-Performance Computing, knowledge of GPU technology