Manager, Platform ILOM (M2)

Location: Burlington, MA or Santa Clara, CA

Why Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Hardware Development?

Join Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Hardware Development (OCIHD) and be at the forefront of innovation! Our Platform ILOM (Integrated Lights Out Manager) team is building the foundational firmware and embedded software that powers Oracle's cutting-edge cloud infrastructure. We're a dynamic, close-knit team pushing the boundaries of what's possible with new Intel, AMD, and ARM CPU and NVIDIA/AMD GPU based server products and components. If you're passionate about bringing extreme hardware technologies, advanced processors, and sophisticated system software to market in a fast-paced, high-impact environment, this is the place for you. We work collaboratively across divisions to deliver robust off-line system configuration and management for Oracle’s leading-edge servers, directly impacting the scalability and reliability of Oracle Cloud.

The Opportunity: Manager, Platform ILOM (M2)

As an M2 Manager, you will lead a small, dedicated team responsible for a feature area within our service. You are fully responsible for the design, delivery, and operations of all components in your team's space, directly contributing to our technology/product and improving organizational strength and speed. You will foster a culture of trust, direct feedback, and healthy debate, measuring team health and delivery through outcomes.

Why Oracle?

Working at Oracle means being part of a team that's helping shape the future of cloud computing. We offer a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and opportunities for professional growth and continuous learning.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a small team, taking full responsibility for its design, delivery, and operations.
• Perform and fully own software deployments across pre-production and production
• Support both new and existing products by troubleshooting, bug fixing, and driving continuous improvements to ensure optimal performance and reliability.
• Define and drive the technical, product, operational, and organizational strategy for your team's initiatives, ensuring alignment with broader organizational goals.
• Prioritize team's work focusing on customer issues and requirements, ensuring solutions are well-defined, modularized, secure, reliable, diagnosable, actively monitored, compliant, and reusable.
• Participate in Large Scale Events involving Service dependencies.
• Model and coach modern software engineering practices: leveraging data/telemetry, well-defined interfaces, design reviews, coding standards, code reviews, and comprehensive test coverage.
• Build a culture of psychological safety, honest feedback, open debate, and mutual respect within your team, empowering individuals through experimentation and creative problem solving.
• Mentor and grow the next generation of technical leaders in performance engineering within your team.
• Develop talent: guide new employees through onboarding, coach on job performance, give feedback, and suggest corrective action.
• Clarify performance expectations and establish specific, measurable goals and commitments.
• Set and uphold engineering standards for architecture, code quality, reliability, security, and operational excellence.
• Communicate proactively and effectively with all stakeholders, from engineers to senior audiences, providing status, identifying risks, offering mitigation strategies, and translating vision into actionable execution.
• Participate in team roadmap planning, including recruiting, hiring, and performance management.
• Advocate for change by clearly communicating business rationale and gaining employee support.
• Engage in hands-on management, including addressing customer issues, managing escalations, and deploying code aligned with change management procedures.
• Contribute to or author regular executive reports and action plans to senior management.
• Learn and adapt for new technologies in a high-pace environment.

What You'll Bring

Must-Have & Skills:

• Typically has 0-2 years people management or technical lead experience.
• 5+ years of experience in BMC development for large-scale distributed systems, cloud services, or performance engineering.
• Deep expertise in Intel, AMD, and ARM CPU and NVIDIA/AMD GPU based architectures, including strong understanding of associated software components such as BIOS, Operating Systems, drivers, and utilities.
• Exceptional proficiency in C, along with strong scripting skills in Bash and Python.
• Proven experience working directly with hardware teams on BMC bringup and system debugging.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and debugging skills.
• Demonstrated success leading cross-organizational technical initiatives with business impact.
• Strong distributed systems architecture and design skills.
• Familiarity with core cloud infrastructure - compute, storage, networking - and their performance characteristics.
• Exceptional leadership, mentorship, and people management skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work in a collaborative, cross-functional team environment.
• Understand the end-to-end configuration, technical dependencies, and overall behavioral characteristics of production services.

Preferred Skills:

• Extensive hands-on experience developing multi-threaded embedded Linux applications/infrastructure in C for a variety of hardware interfaces, including PCIe, SPI, I2C/I3C, USB, UART, eMMC, PECI, and Ethernet controllers.
• Solid understanding of system management standards including IPMI, OpenBMC, SPDM, PLDM, Redfish, and MCTP, along with experience implementing and/or using them.
• Knowledge of Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability (RAS) concepts.
• Experience in managing BMC development for cloud infrastructure with hundreds of thousands of servers.
• Experience in leading teams that have delivered successful products on a large-scale.

Education

• BS, MS, or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field.

Disclaimer:

Certain US customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization and occupational health mandates.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $109,200 to $223,400 per annum. May be eligible for bonus and equity.

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 - M2

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