Senior Manager, Cloud Adoption Engineering

Oracle Government, Defense & Intelligence has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Manager, Cloud Adoption Engineering

Lead the Function That Enables Successful Cloud Adoption

Oracle Government, Defense & Intelligence is seeking a Senior Manager of Cloud Adoption Engineering to lead the Cloud Adoption Engineering function and directly manage a team of individual Cloud Adoption Engineers supporting U.S. Federal Government customers.

You will own the function’s operating model, technical standards, engagement priorities, team development, and performance. Your team will help customers establish the secure, governed, connected, observable, automated, and operationally ready foundations required to successfully adopt Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).

This role combines functional ownership, direct people management, technical leadership, and customer engagement. You will translate organizational priorities into a practical engineering capability that reduces adoption risk, resolves foundational blockers, and accelerates customer time-to-value.

• Must possess or have the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI with Poly
• This is a HYBRID position that involves a combination of remote, in-office work and meetings at the client site. Candidates must be based in the greater Washington DC area.

 

 

 

Disclaimer:

Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $148,900 to $243,800 per annum. May be eligible for equity and compensation deferral. Eligible for commission with an estimated pay mix of 60/40.


Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.
Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:
1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
2. Short term disability and long term disability
3. Life insurance and AD&D
4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
8. Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
9. 11 paid holidays
10. Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
11. Paid parental leave
12. Adoption assistance
13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan
14. Financial planning and group legal
15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.
As part of Oracle's onboarding process and consistent with applicable law, US-based employees are required to complete identity verification, which involves the collection and processing of their biometric information. Accommodations to this requirement may be granted following an individualized assessment.

What You’ll Do

Own and Lead the Cloud Adoption Engineering Function

• Define and execute the function’s priorities, operating practices, engagement model, and measures of success.
• Establish clear responsibilities and working relationships with Sales, solution architecture, customer success, professional services, support, delivery partners, and customer technical teams.
• Own engagement intake, technical qualification, prioritization, staffing, and capacity planning.
• Establish standards for discovery, readiness assessment, foundation design, implementation enablement, validation, and operational handoff.
• Maintain a roadmap for improving the function’s capabilities, reusable assets, technical coverage, and customer outcomes.
• Represent Cloud Adoption Engineering in leadership discussions, customer escalations, and cross-functional planning.

 

Directly Manage and Develop Cloud Adoption Engineers

• Recruit, onboard, coach, and retain individual Cloud Adoption Engineers.
• Set individual goals, assign customer engagements, manage performance, and support career development.
• Provide regular feedback on technical judgment, customer communication, deliverable quality, and engagement execution.
• Build shared proficiency across OCI foundations, cloud adoption, tenancy design and landing zones, networking, identity federation, security operations integration, and Infrastructure-as-Code.
• Develop specialist depth within the team and assign domain stewardship responsibilities to experienced engineers.
• Validate proficiency through applied exercises, reviewed deliverables, customer working sessions, and demonstrated field outcomes.

 

Direct Customer Engagements and Adoption Readiness

• Guide engineers through onboarding engagement activities.
• Ensure each engagement has an agreed scope, accountable engineer, customer stakeholders, success criteria, and expected deliverables.
• Oversee discovery of customer environments, workload dependencies, technical constraints, governance requirements, and operational responsibilities.
• Ensure readiness assessments document supporting evidence, gaps, risks, recommendations, owners, and target dates.
• Guide workload disposition and migration sequencing recommendations based on foundation readiness and dependencies.
• Review engagement progress, resolve blockers, and intervene directly when technical complexity or customer circumstances require leadership involvement.

 

Set Technical Direction and Engineering Standards

• Provide technical oversight across OCI tenancy architecture, landing zones, networking, identity federation, security operations, observability, governance, and automation.
• Lead reviews of significant architecture decisions, design tradeoffs, exceptions, and readiness recommendations.
• Ensure designs address security, resilience,