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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 Software Engineer
Align your credentials with EB-2 requirements
A master's degree in computer science, electrical engineering, or a related field positions you for EB-2. If you hold a bachelor's plus five or more years of progressive infrastructure experience, document that work history in detail for the advanced-degree equivalent argument.
Target employers with active PERM filing history
Infrastructure roles at cloud providers, financial institutions, and large healthcare systems generate consistent PERM filings. Search DOL's OFLC disclosure data to confirm a company has sponsored engineers in your SOC code before applying, not after receiving an offer.
Search green card jobs through Migrate Mate
Use Migrate Mate to filter Infrastructure Software Engineer roles by employers with verified green card sponsorship history. This cuts out companies that list sponsorship as possible but rarely follow through on PERM filings for technical staff.
Understand how PERM wage levels affect your offer
DOL requires employers to pay the prevailing wage for your specific role and location. Check the OFLC Wage Search before negotiating your offer to confirm the employer's proposed salary meets at least the Level II or Level III threshold, or your PERM filing could stall.
Clarify green card intent during the offer stage
Ask directly whether the company initiates PERM within the first year of employment. Some employers sponsor H-1B visa renewals indefinitely but delay or decline PERM. Getting a written commitment in your offer letter is a practical safeguard, not an unusual request for infrastructure roles.
File I-140 early to lock in your priority date
Once your employer submits the PERM application to DOL, push to have the I-140 petition filed with USCIS as soon as PERM is certified. Your priority date determines your place in the EB-2 or EB-3 queue, and earlier filing protects you if you change employers later under AC21 portability.
Green Card Infrastructure Software Engineer: Frequently Asked Questions
Do Infrastructure Software Engineer roles qualify for EB-2 or EB-3 green card sponsorship?
Both categories apply, depending on your education and the employer's job requirements. EB-2 covers candidates with a master's degree or a bachelor's plus five years of progressive experience. EB-3 covers professionals with a bachelor's degree in a relevant field. Most infrastructure engineering roles require a specific technical degree, which satisfies the specialty occupation standard that PERM filings rely on.
How does the green card process differ from H-1B sponsorship for this role?
H-1B is a temporary status renewed in three-year increments with annual cap exposure. The EB-2 and EB-3 green card process through PERM leads to permanent residency with no cap at the petition stage. The tradeoff is time: PERM requires DOL labor certification before USCIS adjudicates the I-140, adding roughly one to two years before you can file for adjustment of status, compared to an H-1B transfer that can complete in weeks.
How long does the full EB-3 green card process take for an infrastructure engineer?
For most countries outside India and China, the EB-3 process runs approximately two to four years from PERM filing to a green card. DOL's PERM adjudication currently averages well over a year for analyst review cases. Once USCIS approves the I-140 and a visa number becomes available, you file I-485 for adjustment of status if you're already in the U.S. on a valid status like H-1B.
Where can I find Infrastructure Software Engineer jobs that offer green card sponsorship?
Migrate Mate is built specifically for foreign professionals seeking employment-based green card sponsorship. You can filter Infrastructure Software Engineer roles by employers with verified PERM filing history, which removes companies that list sponsorship as an option but rarely complete the process. This is more reliable than filtering general job boards by sponsorship checkboxes, which are self-reported and often inaccurate.
Can I switch employers after my PERM is approved but before I get my green card?
Yes, under AC21 portability, you can change to a same or similar role at a new employer once your I-485 has been pending for 180 days and your I-140 is approved. For infrastructure engineers, a move from one backend infrastructure role to another at a different company generally satisfies the same-or-similar standard. Your original priority date stays with you, which matters significantly if you're in a backlogged country.