Technical Account Manager - Cloud Infrastructure
Oracle Gen2 Cloud team is looking for Technical Account Managers (TAMs). The ideal candidate will possess deep technical skills in software architecture and cloud computing as well as customer facing skills. The ideal candidate will also have a passion for customer success with a focus on educating, training, designing, and building cloud solutions for a diverse and challenging set of enterprise customers.
Oracle Gen2 Cloud is the next generation cloud service built from grounds up for the most demanding application requirements with diverse performance, reliability, and governance requirements for a variety of customer use cases. We've focused on security, reliability, scalability and flexibility to support existing and future enterprise level large and complex deployments while beating industry performance and pricing standards. We are rapidly expanding our footprint and continuously building innovative solutions.
Do you want to be part of a highly technical team helping to establish Oracle Cloud as the leading cloud computing platform for enterprises? Are you passionate about making customers successful and understand application architectures and integration approaches?
As a TAM, you will work closely with Cloud product teams and partner with other oracle product teams across Oracle to craft highly scalable, flexible, resilient and cost-effective cloud architectures that address customer business problems and accelerate the adoption of Cloud services. You will continuously innovate on our platform, building, deploying and migrating application solutions and use cases that our customers currently use or plan to use and create most optimal architectures and best practices targeted to a specific set of customer base. As a trusted customer advocate, the TAM will help organizations understand best practices around advanced cloud-based solutions, and how to migrate existing workloads to the cloud. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of large-scale computing solutions and enjoys working with enterprise customers in a trusted advisor role while keeping the existing technical skills sharp and developing new ones.
You will have the opportunity to help shape the cloud product and influence the adoption and usage patterns among enterprise and web-scale customers. You should have a demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, create technical definition around customer objectives in complex situations, develop solution strategies, motivate and mobilize resources, and deliver results.
Roles and Responsibilities:Technical Account Management (TAM) will help customers plan and execute a cloud strategy, providing them with best practice advice, implementation guidance, and access to Oracle subject matter experts. Through regular meetings and quarterly reviews, Technical Account Managers will help identify and monitor key success metrics to help ensure customers get the most out of their OCI investment.
A TAM will participate in deep architectural discussions with customers, support and Oracle field personnel to ensure customer solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud. Capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the field and internal teams. Author and contribute to customer-facing publications such as customer specific Architectures, Design Guides, and product presentations.
Build deep relationships with senior business as well as technical individuals within customers to enable them to be cloud advocates.
Act as a technical liaison between customers, service engineering teams and support.Candidates must have Cloud knowledge and extensive experience managing support and operations for customers that have top line revenue impact on a business.
Basic Qualifications:Strong verbal and written communications skills with past experience in a customer facing role.
BS/MS degree required; Engineering degree or a technology degree with business background is highly desired; Advanced Degree a plusBe able to communicate complex ideas and topics to multiple audiences
Design solutions to customer issues by bringing together the right processes, technologies, tools, and people
Create level of effort estimates for the proposed solutions to support roadmap & cost model activities
Demonstrated knowledge in architecting, deploying, and the operation of solutions. Past experience working directly in customer implementations is highly desirable.
The successful candidate will have spent at least 5 years of their career in customer facing roles with a proven record of earning trust as well as effective collaborations across multiple internal organizations and in interactions with partner and customers.
Be knowledgeable and have expert level exposure to Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) in a Public or Private Cloud environment, including compute and storage services Platform as a service (PaaS) including Database.
Experience and/or architecture knowledge of virtualization, high availability and disaster recovery, for public cloud platforms;
Ideal but not required to have a knowledge of Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA) for database and middleware platforms, Oracle Database WebLogic/Java;
Strong communication and presentation skills including white boarding, small and large group conversations, and formal presentations. Strong analytical, facilitation and communication skills (informal, formal, written, verbal and graphical)
Work closely with engineering, product managers or IT operations teams and systems engineers to build resilient multi-region services that scale and perform well.
Ability to run customer POC’s and execute complex projects
Preferred Qualifications:Prior experience in managing expectations and driving technical requirements for migrating or transforming customer solutions to the cloud
Familiarity with common enterprise solutions from Oracle, Microsoft, SAP & VMware Familiarity with Big Data, Analytics, Machine Learning and HPC architectures and workloadsExperience with other cloud platform including AWS, Azure, Google Compute Platform & VMware is a plus
Strong technical leadership skills
Excellent analytical, technical, and communication skills.