[Hiring] Oracle Linux Solutions Architect & Engineering Lead @Centroid Systems

Role Description

Centroid helps organizations modernize, operate, and support mission-critical business systems across Oracle and multi-cloud environments. We provide advisory, deployment, migration, integration, and managed services, with a focus on strong client service, dependable delivery, and career growth for our employees.

The Senior Manager, Infrastructure Solutions leads a team of technical resources while personally contributing to solution design, sales-cycle execution, and delivery leadership. The successful candidate will balance workload and priorities, mentor staff, approve customer deliverables, develop end-to-end architectures, support discovery and sizing, and serve as a senior escalation point. This is not a management-only position; the role requires the ability to directly perform technical and presales work across multiple infrastructure and operating-system domains with a primary focus on Oracle Engineered Systems.

JOB TYPE: Full-time Employee

Travel: 100% remote

Core Technology Scope

• Domain
  • Enterprise Infrastructure: On-premises compute, storage, and network infrastructure
  • Oracle Engineered Systems: Exadata, ZFS Storage Appliance, Oracle Database Appliance, and related platforms
  • Virtualization: Oracle VM, Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager, KVM, and VMware
  • Operating systems / Enterprise platforms:
    • Primary: Oracle Linux, RHEL, other Linux distributions
    • Secondary: Solaris, AIX, and HP-UX

Key Responsibilities

• People and Resource Management
  • Lead and manage technical and presales resources across the defined technology portfolio.
  • Assign and balance workload across sales opportunities, customer commitments, and available staff.
  • Mentor technical consulting team on an as-needed basis.
  • Own resourcing conflicts, prioritization decisions, and leadership escalations.
  • Report team capacity, performance, and pipeline-support metrics to leadership.
  • Provide hands-on coverage for team responsibilities during absences or staffing gaps.
• Solution Architecture
  • Design end-to-end solutions spanning infrastructure, engineered systems, virtualization, and operating-system platforms.
  • Act as Technical Architect on client engagements and ensure team’s project deliverables are meeting technical standards.
  • Validate solution feasibility, sizing, integration, supportability, and alignment across heterogeneous environments.
  • Maintain technical standards and reference architectures used in customer proposals.
  • Provide architecture governance and final technical sign-off for complex or high-risk designs.
• Presales and Commercial Support
  • Lead technical discovery, requirements clarification, sizing, and solution positioning during the sales cycle.
  • Create and review Statements of Work, staffing plans, effort estimates, timelines, and responsibility models.
  • Create customer-facing and executive presentations that communicate solution value, architecture, scope, assumptions, and risk.
  • Create Oracle carts and bills of materials using the Oracle Partner Store or successor tooling.
  • Perform Oracle license assessments, including entitlement review, compliance considerations, and sizing for new or renewal licensing.
  • Participate in RFP and RFI technical response development and quality review.
• Technical Escalation Management
  • Serve as a senior escalation point across the covered technology domains.
  • Coordinate internal specialists, delivery leaders, and vendor support contacts for issue resolution.
  • Conduct root-cause and lessons-learned reviews for major escalations and incorporate improvements into standards and delivery practices.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience leading technical or presales resources in enterprise infrastructure, managed services, systems integration, or consulting environments.
• Hands-on solution architecture experience across compute, storage, networking, virtualization, and operating systems.
• Strong working knowledge of Oracle engineered systems and related infrastructure technologies.
• Proven ability to create and quality-review SOWs, staffing plans, technical proposals, executive presentations, and RFP/RFI responses.
• Experience performing technical discovery, solution sizing, architecture validation, and customer presentations.
• Experience managing technical escalations and coordinating with vendors or OEM support organizations.
• Excellent written, verbal, facilitation, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Ability to manage competing priorities while continuing to contribute directly to technical and presales deliverables.
• Experience with Exadata, Oracle Database Appliance, ZFS Storage Appliance, Oracle Linux, and Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager.
• Experience with VMware, KVM, SPARC/Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, and multi-platform migration or modernization initiatives.

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of Oracle licensing concepts, entitlement reviews, compliance assessments, and bill-of-material creation.
• Experience working with Oracle, IBM, HPE, and other enterprise technology vendors.
• Background in consulting, presales engineering, solution architecture, or customer-facing technical leadership.
• Relevant vendor, architecture, operating system, virtualization, or project leadership certifications.

Success Measures

• Business continuity : Ownership of active deliverables, stakeholder relationships, and escalations transitions without material disruption.
• Deliverable quality : SOWs, staffing plans, presentations, BOMs, and technical responses are accurate, consistent, and ready for leadership or customer review.
• Architecture governance : Complex solutions receive timely feasibility, sizing, integration, and risk review.
• Team effectiveness : Work is balanced, staff are coached, and backup coverage is available across priority domains.
• Sales support : Technical discovery, sizing, and solution positioning are completed in alignment with opportunity timelines.
• Escalation leadership : Major technical issues have clear ownership, stakeholder coordination, and documented lessons learned.