Oracle Cloud Engineering Infrastructure Development - Media Services – Software Development Senior Manager
Location: South Africa (Remote)

At Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), we build the future of the cloud for Enterprises as a diverse team of fellow creators and inventors. We act with the speed and attitude of a start-up, with the scale and customer-focus of the leading enterprise software company in the world.

Values are OCI’s foundation and how we deliver excellence. We strive for equity, inclusion, and respect for all. We are committed to the greater good in our products and our actions. We are constantly learning and taking opportunities to grow our careers and ourselves. We challenge each other to stretch beyond our past to build our future.

You are the builder here. You will be part of a team of really smart, motivated, and diverse people and given the autonomy and support to do your best work. It is a dynamic and flexible workplace where you’ll belong and be encouraged. 

Join our friendly distributed team working in a collaborative, remote first culture to build a globally impacting product. All OCI employees from the South African development team work from home.

OCI Media Services is an exciting new team working on a suite of OCI-native services in the digital media space. We are building services from the ground up that run the gamut from content transcode and video streaming to information extraction and analytics. 
As a manager you will own the execution of software design and development for major components of Oracle’s Cloud Infrastructure. You should have technical depth, architectural know how, general distributed systems knowledge, be a strong people and process manager. You should be able to dive deep into any part of the stack and low-level systems. You should value simplicity and scale, work comfortably in a collaborative, agile environment, and be excited to learn.
From a technology perspective, this is a greenfield development environment with a huge amount of autonomy, leaving us free to build and innovate without being encumbered by legacy products and services. 

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership, direction and strategy
• Identify, recruit and retain good engineering talent
• Work with members of the team and manage smart engineers doing the design and development of key features needed to make Media Services successful
• Set a high-quality bar for services right from the design stage through to production e.g. end to end testing, monitoring and alerting.
• Translate high level functional requirements into detailed project plans and schedules
• Unblock team members on both technical and non-technical issues
• Improve organisational best practices around software development, career development as well as recruiting and team growth
• Work with geographically distributed teams and contribute to the success of his/her and other related teams
• Work with designers and product managers to arrive at a product/service definition and get the definition to an execution plan
• Work with the team and outside to get necessary approvals for the architecture and design for the problem at hand
• Interact with other service leads in OCI, and be able to come up with clear plans on integration with those as needed

Desired Skills and Experience

• BS in Computer Science or a related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of experience in software development.
• 3+ Years of experience leading engineering teams.
• 2+ years of experience managing a complex software development project and working in a domain of operating a service.
• Experience delivering and operating large scale, highly available distributed systems.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex information in a clear, concise manner to all audiences.
• Results driven; thrives in a development environment that is agile, collaborative, and in start-up mode, even when faced with ambiguity.
• Experience in the digital media space a big plus.

We are currently hiring for a range of positions and looking for good people – if the opportunity sounds exciting but position isn’t quite right - reach out and we can find a better match.

As part of Oracle's employment process candidates will be required to complete a pre-employment screening process, prior to an offer being made. This will involve identity and employment verification, salary verification, professional references, education verification and professional qualifications and memberships (if applicable).

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Manages and controls activities in multi-functional areas of sections. Ensures appropriate operational planning is effectively executed to meet Corporate specifications. Demonstrated leadership and people management skills. Strong communication skills, analytical skills, thorough understanding of product development. BS or MS degree or equivalent experience relevant to functional area. 4 years of software engineering or related experience.

As part of Oracle's employment process candidates will be required to successfully complete a pre-employment screening process. This will involve identity and employment verification, professional references, education verification and professional qualifications and memberships (if applicable).