Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer

Job Title: Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer Company: Oracle Job Category: Machine Learning Roles & Responsibilities: As a Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer (AI/ML Forward Deployed Infrastructure Engineer), you will play a critical role in designing, implementing, and maintaining the infrastructure that supports our customers AI and machine learning initiatives. Your expertise will be crucial in optimizing our infrastructure for performance, reliability, and cost\-effectiveness. In this hands\-on technical role you’ll troubleshoot issues for proof of concept (POC) and production deployments. Work with OCI Strategic customers to grow our business in pre/post sales stages in a technical infra expert role. Design, deploy, and manage infrastructure components such as cloud resources, distributed computing systems, and data storage solutions to support AI/ML workflows. Implement automation solutions for provisioning, configuring, and monitoring AI/ML infrastructure to streamline operations and enhance productivity. Optimize infrastructure performance by tuning parameters, optimizing resource utilization, and implementing caching and data pre\-processing techniques. Ensure security and compliance standards are met throughout the AI/ML infrastructure stack, including data encryption, access control, and vulnerability management. Troubleshoot infrastructure performance, scalability, and reliability issues and implement solutions to mitigate risks and minimize downtime. Document infrastructure designs, configurations, and procedures to facilitate knowledge sharing and ensure maintainability. Act as a technical liaison between customers, core engineering teams, and support Familiarity with DevOps practices and tools for continuous integration, deployment, and monitoring (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Prometheus). Core Responsibilities Strategic Thought Leadership: * Manages and coordinates moderately complex tasks, monitoring timelines and deliverables to ensure timely completion and adherence to requirements for a moderately sized project or initiative. Efficiently delegates, monitors, and prioritizes work across multiple projects, providing technical oversight and adjusting plans to address shifts in resources or timelines. * Collaborates across the organization to align on expectations and achieve shared objectives. Leverages understanding of business leaders, stakeholders, and/or customers to ensure proposed solutions meet their needs. Supports inclusivity by actively seeking and listening to diverse perspectives, ensuring others feel heard and respected. * Develops ideas, recommends updates, and/or collaborates on the implementation of process improvements to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of processes, protocols, and workflows across teams, and evaluates the impact on key stakeholders. Solicits feedback from others on ideas for alternative approaches and methods for continued improvement. Performance and Development: Work Location: Bengaluru, India Availability: Full time

Collaborate with scientists and software/infrastructure engineers to understand infrastructure requirements for training, testing, and deploying machine learning models. Qualifications: Experience in scripting and automation using tools like Ansible, Terraform, Python and/or Kubernetes. Experience with containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) and orchestration tools (like Slurm, PBS, etc.) for managing distributed systems. Preferred Qualifications Strong proficiency in at least one of the programming languages such as Python, Rust, Go, Java, or Scala Proven experience designing, implementing, and managing infrastructure for AI/ML or HPC workloads. Strong experience with High\-Performance Computing/GPU systems Business Experience: * Identifies and addresses moderately complex issues by analyzing a wide range of data and/or information to identify solutions in accordance with standard practices. Proactively escalates unresolved or critical issues with a thorough assessment and suggests potential solutions. Reviews, contributes to, and documents problem solving strategies. Key Skills: Machine Learning, Python, TensorFlow, PyTorch Salary: INR 510000 - 687500 per yearly