Sr. Manager, DDOS Engineering and Development

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is seeking a Senior Manager to lead the engineering team building and operating OCI’s cloud-scale DDoS protection platform and customer-facing DDoS product. You will collaborate on strategy, roadmap, and delivery for globally distributed detection and mitigation systems while developing a high‑performing team and driving operational excellence.

What you’ll own:

• Define multi‑quarter roadmap and quarterly plans for DDoS platform and product, aligned to OCI priorities and revenue goals.
• Make data‑driven tradeoffs across feature velocity, resiliency, and cost; manage build‑vs‑buy with clear ROI.
• Lead new service development from concept and business case through GA: PRDs, architecture, stage gates, resourcing, and launch readiness.
• Deliver low‑latency, high‑availability backend services for detection, classification, and mitigation across OCI’s global edge.
• Drive scalable data and control planes (policy, signaling, telemetry, orchestration) with strong fault isolation and resiliency.
• Guide anycast routing, BGP signaling, and traffic steering; integrate with OCI Networking, DNS, and edge services.
• Oversee capacity modeling, scale testing, and multi‑region readiness.
• Establish and meet SLOs/SLAs and KPIs; ensure on‑call health, incident readiness/response, and rigorous post‑incident improvements.
• Champion automation‑first operations: CI/CD, test frameworks, canary/blue‑green releases, and infrastructure‑as‑code.
• Build robust observability (metrics, logs, traces) and near‑real‑time telemetry/streaming pipelines for detection at scale.
• Govern threat modeling, architecture reviews, and risk remediation; ensure auditability and policy adherence for Tier 0 services.
• Embed security and privacy by design; enforce zero trust principles and secure service‑to‑service communication (mTLS, policy).
• Hire, onboard, and grow a diverse, high‑performing team; set clear OKRs, provide ongoing coaching and feedback, and drive career paths and succession planning.
• Mentor senior ICs and emerging leaders; establish technical ladders, design reviews, and knowledge‑sharing rituals.
• Partner closely with Product, SRE, Networking, Architecture, and Security to land integrated capabilities and resilient outcomes.
• Provide crisp executive updates on status, risks, mitigations, and outcomes.

Basic Qualifications:

• 10+ years in network/security or backend engineering, including 4+ years leading engineering teams delivering production‑critical services at scale.
• Proven delivery of large‑scale DDoS or network security programs in cloud, hyperscale, or ISP environments.
• Strong systems and distributed design skills: concurrency, performance, resiliency, API design, and fault isolation.
• Deep networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, IPv4/IPv6, BGP; DNS/DHCP understanding; ability to guide architectural decisions.
• Hands‑on fluency with automation‑first operations and DevOps at scale: CI/CD, automated testing, rollout/rollback, config management, and IaC (e.g., Terraform).
• Proficiency with one or more: Java, Go, Python, C++, or Rust; strong preference for Java for control‑plane/services.
• Demonstrated leadership in incident management, resilience engineering, observability, and operational maturity.
• Excellent stakeholder management and executive communication; data‑driven prioritization and tradeoff decision‑making.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with anycast routing, traffic steering, multi‑region service readiness, and capacity/scalability modeling.
• Exposure to SDN, programmable data planes, or hardware mitigation platforms.
• Advanced telemetry/streaming for near‑real‑time detection (e.g., high‑rate packet/flow analytics).
• Containerization/orchestration and secure service‑to‑service communication (mTLS, policy).
• Familiarity with zero trust, segmentation, and modern security architectures.
• Track record building inclusive teams; coaching frameworks; performance management best practices.

How you’ll have impact:

• Protect OCI’s infrastructure availability with resilient, automated DDoS detection and mitigation at hyperscale.
• Launch and evolve customer‑facing DDoS offerings that provide self‑service policy, visibility, and strong SLAs.
• Raise engineering quality, automation coverage, and compliance maturity across the stack.
• Build and scale a world‑class engineering organization grounded in security‑by‑design and operational excellence.

Ways of working:

• Security and privacy by design with auditable controls; policy adherence from day one.
• Data‑driven delivery with clear KPIs, SLOs, and stage gates from prototype to GA.
• Collaborative, inclusive engineering culture with design docs, code reviews, and continuous learning.

Responsibilities: See What you’ll own section above.

Qualifications: See Basic Qualifications and Preferred Qualifications sections above.

Career Level: M3

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Seniority level: Mid-Senior level

Employment type: Full‑time

Job function: Engineering and Information Technology IT Services and IT Consulting