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The Lead Principal Field Systems Engineer is an individual contributor role within the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure team. This position focuses on improving deployment readiness, commissioning, and production handoff across complex technical and operational environments. You will partner with cross-functional teams to identify recurring deployment pain points in hardware, networking, cabling, power, and cooling. Your daily responsibilities include establishing ground truth for readiness issues, building validation mechanisms, and converting field learnings into repeatable operating rhythms and dashboards. You must demonstrate strong analytical capabilities using metrics, spreadsheets, and workflow tools to drive systemic fixes. The role addresses the technical challenge of scaling GPU and cloud infrastructure by creating durable process improvements and go/no-go criteria to ensure predictable capacity delivery for high-priority AI and cloud programs.
Identify recurring deployment pain points across site readiness, hardware, networking, cabling, and power/cooling.
Establish ground truth for readiness, commissioning, and handoff issues not reflected in status reporting.
Build readiness gates, go/no-go criteria, validation mechanisms, and handoff standards for production capacity.
Translate field pain points into clear requirements, process fixes, escalation paths, or playbook updates.
Drive systemic fixes for recurring issues to prevent repeat problems across different regions and programs.
Convert field learnings into repeatable mechanisms, operating rhythms, dashboards, and executive narratives.
Travel to deployment sites and partner locations as needed to provide hands-on technical and operational support.
What we're looking for
Must have 10+ years of experience.
Must have 7+ years of experience in operational excellence, field engineering, deployment execution, technical program management, systems/process transformation, or business operations.
Must have a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, Operations, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Must be able to read, write, and speak English.
Must have a proven track record of operating hands-on in ambiguous, high-tempo environments.
Must have experience driving cross-functional initiatives and identifying systemic issues to build repeatable mechanisms.
Must have strong analytical capabilities using metrics, dashboards, and reporting systems.
Must have strong written and verbal communication skills for executive-level updates and recommendations.
Experience in hyperscale cloud, data center infrastructure, AI infrastructure, or other complex technical delivery environments (preferred).
Familiarity with infrastructure deployment, site readiness, commissioning, validation, or production handoff (preferred).
Understanding of physical infrastructure fundamentals including power, cooling, rack deployment, and cabling (preferred).
Experience with GPU/AI infrastructure delivery or large-scale cloud capacity programs (preferred).
Experience building readiness frameworks, operating playbooks, or closed-loop process-improvement mechanisms (preferred).
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