Senior Manager, Cloud Solutions Engineer — Forward Deployed Engineering

Oracle Government, Defense & Intelligence has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Manager, Cloud Solutions Engineer — Forward Deployed Engineering

Build Teams That Deliver Mission Outcomes

Oracle Government, Defense & Intelligence is seeking a Senior Manager, Cloud Solutions Engineering to lead a team of Principal and Master Principal Cloud Architects serving as Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) for a U.S. Intelligence Community customer.

Our Forward Deployed Engineers embed with dedicated customers to architect, build, deploy, secure, and operationalize Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) solutions. As their manager, you will build and develop the team, guide technical execution, and hold accountability for delivery across customer engagements.

You will combine people leadership, technical judgment, and customer partnership to help engineers turn complex mission requirements into secure, resilient, production-ready systems. Success means customers can operate, sustain, and expand the solutions your team delivers.

• Must possess or have the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI with Poly
  
• This is a HYBRID position that involves a combination of remote, in-office work and meetings at the client site. Candidates must be based in the greater Washington DC area.

What You’ll Do

Lead and Develop the Team

• Recruit, coach, and retain experienced cloud architects and infrastructure engineers supporting mission-critical customer environments.
• Set clear expectations for technical quality, customer engagement, delivery ownership, and professional growth.
• Manage performance and career development through regular feedback, meaningful goals, and individual development plans.
• Match engineers to engagements based on mission needs, technical expertise, clearance requirements, and team capacity.
• Build a collaborative engineering culture that encourages accountability, sound judgment, knowledge sharing, and continuous learning.

Own Delivery Across Customer Engagements

• Lead a portfolio of embedded FDE engagements, with each engineer focused on a dedicated customer.
• Partner with customer stakeholders and assigned engineers to establish scope, priorities, milestones, dependencies, and measurable success criteria.
• Guide execution across the full delivery lifecycle: architecture, build, deployment, hardening, operations, and transition.
• Monitor delivery health, identify risks early, resolve resource constraints, and coordinate support across Oracle.
• Serve as a management escalation point for complex technical issues, delivery challenges, and customer concerns.
• Ensure engagements include documentation, knowledge transfer, operational readiness, and clear ownership for ongoing support.

Provide Technical Leadership

• Review solution architectures and implementation approaches for security, scalability, resilience, performance, and operational sustainability.
• Guide engineering across OCI compute, networking, identity, storage, databases, Kubernetes, security, and observability services.
• Establish practical engineering standards for Infrastructure-as-Code, automation, source control, testing, deployment, and change management within customer environments.
• Maintain sufficient hands-on technical depth to evaluate designs, challenge assumptions, and assist with complex implementation and troubleshooting efforts.
• Help teams mature pilot deployments into production systems aligned with customer security and accreditation requirements.
• Promote reusable automation, deployment patterns, and technical guidance where customer security and information-sharing requirements permit.

Build Customer and Oracle Partnerships

• Establish trusted relationships with customer technical leaders, operators, and mission stakeholders.
• Translate mission priorities into actionable engineering plans and communicate progress, risks, and decisions to technical and executive audiences.
• Collaborate with Oracle product engineering, support, security, consulting, and account teams to address customer needs and remove delivery barriers.
• Coordinate responsibilities across FDEs and other Oracle teams so customers have clear delivery and support ownership.
• Capture field experience and communicate product gaps, recurring issues, and enhancement opportunities to Oracle engineering leadership.
• Support sustainable OCI adoption and consumption by ensuring deployed solutions deliver measurable customer value.

What We’re Looking For

Required Qualifications

• Must possess or have the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI with Poly
• Experience supporting or working within the U.S. Intelligence Community.
• Five or more years managing technical teams in cloud engineering, infrastructure, architecture, or closely related disciplines.
• Demonstrated success leading senior technical professionals and managing complex customer engagements.
• Strong hands-on background in cloud architecture, infrastructure engineering, and production operations.
• Experience guiding solutions from initial requirements and architecture through deployment, operational adoption, and transition.
• Knowledge of secure, highly available cloud environments, including networking, identity, security, observability, and disaster recovery.
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and automation technologies such as Terraform, OCI Resource Manager, Ansible, Python, or Shell.
• Strong prioritization, problem-solving, and communication skills across technical and executive audiences.
• Ability to support on-site customer engagements and travel as required.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced degree in Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Experience leading embedded engineering teams or sustained technical delivery within government customer environments.
• Deep OCI experience and OCI Architect Associate or Professional certification.
• Experience with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
• Expertise in Kubernetes, container platforms, and cloud-native modernization.
• Familiarity with government security accreditation and compliance processes.
• Experience translating field requirements into product improvements and reusable engineering capabilities.

How You’ll Lead

You set high standards and give engineers the support and autonomy to meet them. You make informed decisions, communicate clearly, and address risks early. You recognize individual contributions, develop future technical leaders, and build productive relationships across organizational boundaries.

You measure success through team development, delivery quality, operational readiness, customer adoption, and mission impact.

Why Oracle

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure supports demanding workloads across government, defense, and intelligence organizations.

As a leader of Forward Deployed Engineers, you will help build the team and engineering practices that bring those capabilities directly into customer environments. Your leadership will enable engineers to solve difficult technical problems, deliver dependable systems, and advance critical national security missions.

Join Oracle and lead the engineers turning cloud capability into mission outcomes.

Minimum qualifications include: 7 years experience with computer applications and tools required. Ability to travel 50% international and domestic.

Preferred but not required qualifications include: Bachelor of Science-level university degree in Computer Science, Math, Engineering from accredited university; and/or relevant 7 years technical experience. Advanced degree in relevant field of studies highly desirable. 3 or more years of previous relevant technical management experience with computer applications and tools. Expertise in and an in depth and thorough knowledge of competitive and industry knowledge in the field of computer applications and tools; System and application design; Implementation of advanced product features; Project management; Solving technical problems with customers in technical environments; Written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills. 8 years experience and expertise in the clear communication of technical information to others through presentations, demonstrations, written communication and consultative solutioning experience.