The Senior Manager leads a team of technical resources while personally contributing to solution design, sales-cycle execution, and delivery leadership. They are responsible for balancing workloads, mentoring staff, approving customer deliverables, and serving as a senior escalation point for complex infrastructure projects.
Position Summary
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: Ful-time Employee Travel: 100% remote
3. Core Technology Scope
Domain
Platforms / Technologies
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
4. 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.
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.
5. Required 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.
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