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OCI is a trusted infrastructure partner to customers running some of the world’s largest and most demanding AI and machine-learning workloads. Our teams design, build, deploy, operate, and continuously optimize large-scale GPU environments where reliability, performance, security, and delivery speed are critical.
Raw Metal Cloud (RMC) is an operating platform for the AI-infrastructure lifecycle, from hardware onboarding and inventory through networking, provisioning, validation, rack certification, and customer handoff.
As Director of Core Infrastructure Engineering, you will lead a high-performing engineering organization responsible for evolving RMC and delivering production-ready GPU infrastructure at scale. You will own the strategy, architecture, execution, and operational health of critical infrastructure services while partnering across hardware, networking, data-center operations, platform engineering, security, product, and customer-facing organizations.
This role requires a leader who combines deep technical judgment with organizational leadership and disciplined execution. You will develop engineering leaders, establish clear ownership across services, drive architectural alignment, and ensure that teams deliver measurable improvements in infrastructure readiness, fleet health, performance, reliability, security, and customer outcomes.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
System Design & Architecture – System Scalability:
- Implements strategies across multiple teams or groups for the architecture and design of interdependent scalable distributed systems, including the use of distributed state management tools, ensuring organizational and system demands are met.
- Spearheads code and/or system optimization initiatives for large-scale data processing and high-throughput requirements across multiple areas, driving improvements that support hyper-scale systems.
- Facilitates collaborations to define system scalability requirements, ensuring the defined requirements meet customer expectations.
- Oversees the design of interdependent systems to scale with elasticity (e.g., effectively scaling both up and down).
- Drives the effective use and implementation of data plane platforms for large-scale data operations.
System Design & Architecture – System Reliability Design:
- Provides strategic oversight for the architecture of fault-tolerant interdependent systems capable of withstanding in-service updates by overseeing implementation across teams of redundancy, replication, and automatic failover mechanisms.
- Influences and sets direction for designing systems to effectively handle service disruptions (e.g., network partitions) by prioritizing consistency, availability, or partition tolerance.
- Leads strategic optimization initiatives for handling network unreliability, including directing the design of load-shedding, throttling, and rate-limiting techniques.
- Holds teams accountable for leveraging formal verification techniques to verify system designs and conduct peer reviews across teams.
- Drives the design of systems that are durable and adhere to service level objectives (SLOs), developing standards for availability and durability of other computing services across the department.
System Design & Architecture – System Reliability Performance:
- Drives strategies for defining key performance indicators (KPIs) and telemetry to identify risks, gaps, or cyclical dependencies in running systems, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.
- Directs the creation and customization of complex dashboards, telemetry systems, and alerting mechanisms that proactively monitor and ensure optimal system health across teams.
System Design & Architecture – Correctness / Availability:
- Implements strategies to effectively determine if systems are meeting functional and correctness requirements, and encourages teams to identify improvement opportunities.
- Provides thought leadership on processes for formally verifying complex features to ensure system design correctness.
- Oversees the implementation of data replication and synchronization techniques, ensuring data integrity and availability across the organization.
Operational Troubleshooting & Incident Management:
- Provides strategic oversight for diagnosing, debugging, and resolving issues in active systems to support ongoing operation.
- Directs strategies within teams to prevent interruptions, ensuring no maintenance windows are required for customers and users when resolving issues.
- Drives alignment across teams for operational readiness protocol and standard operating procedures.
- Provides expert guidance for complex incident response and root cause investigations.
Compliance & Security:
- Provides strategic guidance in architecting robust security measures to protect data and applications in multi-tenant environments, ensuring encryption techniques and access controls are implemented.
- Oversees execution of remediation plans to address identified security gaps, promoting significant improvements and continuous advancement of security measures.
- Drives documentation efforts and ensures cloud infrastructure compliance with industry standards and regulations.
Automation & Change Management:
- Provides strategic guidance across teams on developing and maintaining automation scripts and tools (e.g., Infrastructure as Code (IaC)) to manage cloud infrastructure.
- Drives strategic alignment of change management plans for patching, updating, and rolling back applications, and oversees that system designs allow for automation of these processes.
Core Responsibilities
Planning & Execution:
- Oversees and guides multiple teams on managing complex projects or initiatives, monitoring timelines, deliverables, and budgets (when applicable) to ensure strategic objectives are met.
- Serves as a role model for appropriately delegating work, setting priorities, and ensuring alignment with business needs.
- Coaches others on adjusting resources or project timelines in anticipation of business changes.
Collaboration & Partnership:
- Role models leading cross-functional collaborative efforts to ensure alignment of expectations and strategic objectives.
- Empowers teams to build and maintain partnerships with business leaders, stakeholders, and/or customers to address barriers and contribute to organizational success.
- Drives transparency and inclusivity by modeling actively seeking, listening to, and leveraging diverse perspectives.
Problem Solving:
- Shares problem-solving strategies across teams, providing oversight on complex operational and/or technical issues, as needed.
- Coaches teams on analyzing highly complex data and/or information to identify solutions to ambiguous issues.
- Provides direction on identifying root causes to prevent recurrence of issues.
Continuous Learning:
- Pursues strategic learning opportunities to maintain expertise and apply best practices at the organizational level.
- Creates opportunities for team members and leaders to build their expertise in new areas, coaching them to build innovative skills.
- Identifies skill gap trends across the organization and upholds a culture that places significant emphasis on sharing knowledge and pursuing learning opportunities that advance the organization.
- Evaluates the efficiency of learning strategies and recommends adjustments as needed.
Continuous Improvement:
- Empowers teams to own the development and implementation of ideas that increase the efficiency and effectiveness of processes, protocols, and workflows across the department.
- Coaches teams to gain buy-in for ideas and to seek feedback on approaches and methods for continued improvement.
- Prioritizes and reviews the roadmap of improvement initiatives to ensure alignment with strategic direction and maximize return on investments.
Performance and Development:
- Serves as a role model for driving performance across teams through tailored feedback and coaching in alignment with performance management processes, guidelines, and expectations.
- Drives consistency in the application of talent development procedures and socializes performance expectations across the organization.
- Ensures that individual development goals are aligned with organizational strategic initiatives.
- Collaborates with HR to implement talent strategy through hiring and promotion processes.
INTRODUCTION
OCI is a trusted infrastructure partner to customers running some of the world’s largest and most demanding AI and machine-learning workloads. Our teams design, build, deploy, operate, and continuously optimize large-scale GPU environments where reliability, performance, security, and delivery speed are critical.
Raw Metal Cloud (RMC) is an operating platform for the AI-infrastructure lifecycle, from hardware onboarding and inventory through networking, provisioning, validation, rack certification, and customer handoff.
As Director of Core Infrastructure Engineering, you will lead a high-performing engineering organization responsible for evolving RMC and delivering production-ready GPU infrastructure at scale. You will own the strategy, architecture, execution, and operational health of critical infrastructure services while partnering across hardware, networking, data-center operations, platform engineering, security, product, and customer-facing organizations.
This role requires a leader who combines deep technical judgment with organizational leadership and disciplined execution. You will develop engineering leaders, establish clear ownership across services, drive architectural alignment, and ensure that teams deliver measurable improvements in infrastructure readiness, fleet health, performance, reliability, security, and customer outcomes.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
System Design & Architecture – System Scalability:
- Implements strategies across multiple teams or groups for the architecture and design of interdependent scalable distributed systems, including the use of distributed state management tools, ensuring organizational and system demands are met.
- Spearheads code and/or system optimization initiatives for large-scale data processing and high-throughput requirements across multiple areas, driving improvements that support hyper-scale systems.
- Facilitates collaborations to define system scalability requirements, ensuring the defined requirements meet customer expectations.
- Oversees the design of interdependent systems to scale with elasticity (e.g., effectively scaling both up and down).
- Drives the effective use and implementation of data plane platforms for large-scale data operations.
System Design & Architecture – System Reliability Design:
- Provides strategic oversight for the architecture of fault-tolerant interdependent systems capable of withstanding in-service updates by overseeing implementation across teams of redundancy, replication, and automatic failover mechanisms.
- Influences and sets direction for designing systems to effectively handle service disruptions (e.g., network partitions) by prioritizing consistency, availability, or partition tolerance.
- Leads strategic optimization initiatives for handling network unreliability, including directing the design of load-shedding, throttling, and rate-limiting techniques.
- Holds teams accountable for leveraging formal verification techniques to verify system designs and conduct peer reviews across teams.
- Drives the design of systems that are durable and adhere to service level objectives (SLOs), developing standards for availability and durability of other computing services across the department.
System Design & Architecture – System Reliability Performance:
- Drives strategies for defining key performance indicators (KPIs) and telemetry to identify risks, gaps, or cyclical dependencies in running systems, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.
- Directs the creation and customization of complex dashboards, telemetry systems, and alerting mechanisms that proactively monitor and ensure optimal system health across teams.
System Design & Architecture – Correctness / Availability:
- Implements strategies to effectively determine if systems are meeting functional and correctness requirements, and encourages teams to identify improvement opportunities.
- Provides thought leadership on processes for formally verifying complex features to ensure system design correctness.
- Oversees the implementation of data replication and synchronization techniques, ensuring data integrity and availability across the organization.
Operational Troubleshooting & Incident Management:
- Provides strategic oversight for diagnosing, debugging, and resolving issues in active systems to support ongoing operation.
- Directs strategies within teams to prevent interruptions, ensuring no maintenance windows are required for customers and users when resolving issues.
- Drives alignment across teams for operational readiness protocol and standard operating procedures.
- Provides expert guidance for complex incident response and root cause investigations.
Compliance & Security:
- Provides strategic guidance in architecting robust security measures to protect data and applications in multi-tenant environments, ensuring encryption techniques and access controls are implemented.
- Oversees execution of remediation plans to address identified security gaps, promoting significant improvements and continuous advancement of security measures.
- Drives documentation efforts and ensures cloud infrastructure compliance with industry standards and regulations.
Automation & Change Management:
- Provides strategic guidance across teams on developing and maintaining automation scripts and tools (e.g., Infrastructure as Code (IaC)) to manage cloud infrastructure.
- Drives strategic alignment of change management plans for patching, updating, and rolling back applications, and oversees that system designs allow for automation of these processes.
Core Responsibilities
Planning & Execution:
- Oversees and guides multiple teams on managing complex projects or initiatives, monitoring timelines, deliverables, and budgets (when applicable) to ensure strategic objectives are met.
- Serves as a role model for appropriately delegating work, setting priorities, and ensuring alignment with business needs.
- Coaches others on adjusting resources or project timelines in anticipation of business changes.
Collaboration & Partnership:
- Role models leading cross-functional collaborative efforts to ensure alignment of expectations and strategic objectives.
- Empowers teams to build and maintain partnerships with business leaders, stakeholders, and/or customers to address barriers and contribute to organizational success.
- Drives transparency and inclusivity by modeling actively seeking, listening to, and leveraging diverse perspectives.
Problem Solving:
- Shares problem-solving strategies across teams, providing oversight on complex operational and/or technical issues, as needed.
- Coaches teams on analyzing highly complex data and/or information to identify solutions to ambiguous issues.
- Provides direction on identifying root causes to prevent recurrence of issues.
Continuous Learning:
- Pursues strategic learning opportunities to maintain expertise and apply best practices at the organizational level.
- Creates opportunities for team members and leaders to build their expertise in new areas, coaching them to build innovative skills.
- Identifies skill gap trends across the organization and upholds a culture that places significant emphasis on sharing knowledge and pursuing learning opportunities that advance the organization.
- Evaluates the efficiency of learning strategies and recommends adjustments as needed.
Continuous Improvement:
- Empowers teams to own the development and implementation of ideas that increase the efficiency and effectiveness of processes, protocols, and workflows across the department.
- Coaches teams to gain buy-in for ideas and to seek feedback on approaches and methods for continued improvement.
- Prioritizes and reviews the roadmap of improvement initiatives to ensure alignment with strategic direction and maximize return on investments.
Performance and Development:
- Serves as a role model for driving performance across teams through tailored feedback and coaching in alignment with performance management processes, guidelines, and expectations.
- Drives consistency in the application of talent development procedures and socializes performance expectations across the organization.
- Ensures that individual development goals are aligned with organizational strategic initiatives.
- Collaborates with HR to implement talent strategy through hiring and promotion processes.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Green Card Sponsorship as an Infrastructure Project Manager
Translate your credentials for PERM requirements
PERM filings require your education and experience to map precisely to the job's minimum requirements. If your engineering degree is from outside the U.S., get a credential evaluation that confirms equivalency to a U.S. bachelor's or master's degree before employers begin the recruitment process.
Target employers with active infrastructure contracts
Firms holding multi-year federal or state infrastructure contracts have a structural reason to sponsor green cards rather than lose a key project manager mid-contract. Look for employers with active DOT, Army Corps of Engineers, or municipal utility projects, where continuity of leadership directly affects contract performance.
Search green card sponsors using Migrate Mate
Filter for Infrastructure Project Manager roles at employers with documented EB-2 and EB-3 filing history using Migrate Mate. This narrows your search to companies that have already run PERM processes for this occupation, not just those that say they're open to sponsorship.
Clarify the PERM job description before signing
The PERM application locks in the job title, duties, and minimum requirements, and you must continue performing that role throughout the green card process. Before accepting an offer, confirm the described duties match your actual work scope so USCIS doesn't flag a material change during adjudication.
Understand EB-2 versus EB-3 placement for your background
EB-2 applies if the role requires a master's degree or you hold a bachelor's plus five years of progressive experience in infrastructure project management. EB-3 covers bachelor's-level roles. Your category affects priority date wait times, so clarify with your employer which petition they intend to file.
Check prevailing wage before negotiating your offer
DOL sets the prevailing wage for your role using the OFLC Wage Search, and your employer must pay at least that amount throughout the PERM and green card process. If the offered salary falls below the prevailing wage for your job zone and location, the PERM filing will be denied.
Green Card Infrastructure Project Manager: Frequently Asked Questions
Does Infrastructure Project Manager qualify as a specialty occupation for green card sponsorship?
Yes. Infrastructure Project Manager roles typically qualify under EB-2 or EB-3 because they require at minimum a bachelor's degree in civil engineering, construction management, or a related field. PERM filings for this occupation must document that the minimum requirements are tied to the actual duties, not inflated to exclude U.S. workers. Roles that genuinely require a master's degree or equivalent experience can qualify at the EB-2 level.
How does the green card process differ from H-1B sponsorship for this role?
H-1B visa is a temporary work visa with an annual lottery cap and a six-year maximum stay. The EB-2 and EB-3 green card paths are permanent, with no lottery and no cap at the EB-3 level for most nationalities outside India and China. The PERM labor certification adds time upfront, but approval leads to lawful permanent residency rather than repeated renewal cycles. For Infrastructure Project Manager roles, many employers prefer green card sponsorship for long-tenured hires.
How long does the PERM and I-140 process take for infrastructure roles?
The PERM labor certification typically takes six to twelve months, including the mandatory DOL recruitment period and agency review. After PERM approval, the I-140 petition follows, with standard processing running several months and premium processing available to speed adjudication. For most nationalities, you can file to adjust status concurrent with or shortly after I-140 approval. Indian and Chinese nationals face priority date backlogs at the EB-2 and EB-3 levels that can extend the wait significantly.
What documentation should I prepare before an employer starts my PERM filing?
Gather official transcripts or a foreign credential evaluation, a detailed employment history showing progressive project management experience, reference letters from past supervisors that confirm your infrastructure-specific duties, and any professional certifications such as PMP or PE licensure. PERM requires your background to exactly satisfy the job's stated minimum requirements, so any gap between your credentials and the job description creates grounds for a DOL audit or denial.
How do I find Infrastructure Project Manager jobs where employers are already open to green card sponsorship?
Use Migrate Mate to search Infrastructure Project Manager roles filtered by employers with verified EB-2 and EB-3 filing history. This removes the guesswork of asking employers whether they sponsor, since you're targeting companies that have already completed PERM processes for comparable roles. Construction, utilities, and transportation engineering firms are the most active sponsors in this occupation category.