Manish Kumar Soni

About Manish Kumar Soni

Talent Acquisition Professional with proven expertise in Recruitment, Hiring Practices, Customer centricity, Candidate Experience, and Negotiations. Possess deep sourcing skills and experience sourcing passive candidates; Excellent candidate assessment skills; I see myself to be a self-motivated dynamic individual, with a passion to embrace new challenges in areas of Leadership, technology & domain hiring. For over 15 years I am involved in the Oracle Server Technology IDC development hiring and I manage Oracle PAAS, IAAS & SAAS recruiting in India, as a part of the continuous Talent Acquisition Strategy I\'m constantly building a network of Cloud professionals. I have successfully hired several senior-level candidates and successfully managed hiring for OCI, JDK, CASB, Cloud IaaS, IDCS QA, Cloud Machine Dev, DBaaS, OMC, AI, ML, NLP, and Chatbot development teams.Worked on the Greenfield projects building some of the team from the scratch like Oracle Cloud development teams (OKE, CNRC, OCIR, APIP, Cognitive Services, ML, NLP), Cloud Datacenter team setup (Mumbai & Hyderabad), Cloud Storage, SRE tooling, DBaaS IoT, JDK - Java Platform, OMC, Big Data Analytics, CASB, RGBU, IDM & Applied Engg team of Oracle Cloud managed services & On Demand team in India.Some of my key Achievements- Impact Player Award FY\'23 Received appreciation for Customer centricity and Candidate experience FY\'20 Have done a Feasibility study for Development Center 2019 Featured in Oracle Compass Newsletter Dec 2018 as a most preferred Recruiting Partner for mission-critical projects, for which Quality & Time are driving factors.

Experience

1. Senior Principal Talent Advisor - Japac & Emea, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (Oci)

   Oracle

   Sep 2024 — Present

   In this newly promoted role, I will oversee senior leadership hiring for the EMEA and JAPAC regions, with a focus on attracting top talent. My responsibilities will include expanding the OCI team, filling high-impact roles, evaluating the feasibility of new development centers, recruiting for key strategic skills, and adjusting to shifts in business priorities.Managing open roles for - Hiring Sr. Manager Technical Operations, Principal Technical Operations, Sr. Technical Operations Engineers, Solution - Hiring Datacenter Technicians, & Field Support Manager - Hiring Sr. Field Engineers -Hiring Sr. Field Support Manager, & Field Support - Hiring Principal Product Solution - Hiring for multiple SDE, SDM roles across all levels, Looking for a Sr. Director (IDC Site lead for the Tier 0 service)

Education

• Nagpur University

  Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Mechanical Engineering

  2001 — 2006

• All India Management Association (AIMA)

  PGDM, Human Resource

  2006 — 2008