Director, Core Infrastructure Engineering

The Director Core Infrastructure Engineering leads a multi-geography software engineering organization building and operating core network-control health planning and automation platforms for OCIs 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.

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.

Career Level - M4