Oracle Cloud (OCI) is a Gartner Magic Quadrant leader in Cloud Platform Services. Oracle Cloud is the first public cloud built from the ground up to be a better cloud for every application. By rethinking core engineering and systems design for cloud computing, OCI created innovations that solve problems that customers have with existing public clouds. OCI accelerates migrations of existing enterprise workloads, delivers better reliability and performance for all applications, and offers the complete services customers need to build innovative cloud applications.

Compute services are the foundation for Cloud Platform Services. With building blocks based on Security, Performance, and Flexibility, the Compute service builds scaling solutions for a global customers base across the breadth of the offering, including: Virtual Machines, Bare Metal Infrastructure, GPU Instances, Cloud Native Containers, and VMWare on Oracle Cloud. 

The Sr. Director of Compute Operations will be accountable for the operational capabilities of the core Compute Services. They will lead a large, globally distributed team with a follow the sun model, owning 24x7 capabilities. Their work will enable companies and governments move more mission-critical workloads to cloud with confidence in the security of their information, the availability of the services, and the rapid response and resolution of incidents.

The Sr. Director of Compute Operations will be the key trusted operational partner to the global Compute organization, developing and executing the operational strategy, leading the operations organizations globally. They will be champions for operational efficiency and will accelerate operational productivity, continuously evolving capacity models, analyzing historic and real-time results, and become a trusted partner to the VP, Compute and Ops leader by making strategic and tactical recommendations based on those analyses - all in an environment of rapid growth and increasing complexity. This individual will need to collaborate effectively with internal stakeholders across the Compute organization, drive siloes into a unified operating model, be an empathetic change agent, manage programs that drive results at scale and champion the ability to simplify and improve cloud operations. As a member of the leadership team, this role will be working with global OCI leaders across multiple functions to develop, implement and manage operational processes, systems, reports and strategies to meet company-wide and organizational goals and initiatives.

The successful candidate will be an excellent organizational and inclusive people leader, who can hire and build the best diverse talent across their organization including coaching and developing senior direct reports. They will excel at driving results via empowering and scaling people. They will be a superb written and verbal communicator. They will be comfortable presenting to senior leadership and influencing global stakeholders across the organization. They will be proficient at looking around corners by identifying critical internal and external trends and will be detail orientated, with a passion for simplifying processes to deliver operational excellence at scale. They will be able to roll-up their sleeves working directly with models and data as well as ideating and driving strategic priorities for the OCI Compute organization.

Career Level - M5