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The Lead Principal Field Systems Engineer is an individual contributor role within the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure team focused on improving deployment readiness, commissioning, and production handoff across complex technical environments. This person will partner with cross-functional teams including Engineering, Networking, Data Center Operations, Construction, and Supply Chain to identify recurring deployment pain points in site readiness, hardware, cabling, power, cooling, and validation. The role involves building readiness gates, go/no-go criteria, and automated playbooks to ensure seamless transitions from planned capacity to production-ready status. Key requirements include expertise in operational excellence, field engineering, systems thinking, and data analysis using metrics and dashboards. The position addresses the technical challenge of scaling GPU and cloud infrastructure by converting field learnings into durable, repeatable mechanisms that eliminate recurring friction and improve deployment predictability across global regions and programs.
Systems Software
Firmware
Hardware Provisioning
API
Monitoring
Observability
Concurrency
Threat Modeling
Debugging
Troubleshooting
Data Centers
Storage Systems
Networking
GPU Subsystems