Network development engineer

Job Description

Organizational Overview

Oracle Cloud continues to drive innovation across the infrastructure and cloud services space, empowering enterprise customers worldwide through automation, scalability, and security. The Infrastructure Engineering Services (IES) Federal Network Engineering team plays a foundational role in this mission, delivering enterprise-grade networking and security solutions that power Oracle's most critical workloads across US-based OCI and OHAI data centers for our Federal customers.

Role Description

The IES Federal Network Engineering team is responsible for the network strategy, support, and standardization of the Federal environment in OHAI's US-based data centers and cloud footprint. The team's responsibilities span across core routing and switching, security services including firewall management, advanced fabric technologies, OCI cloud networking, and network automation. They are responsible for managing monitoring, security, and lifecycle management of hardware and software. The team's work underpins network operations, engineering, architecture, and automation for several cross-functional teams, ensuring a smooth and scalable network environment. One of the team's core priorities is the migration of our Federal clients to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). To support this, the Federal Network Engineering team requires experienced specialized Network Development Engineers who possess both deep architectural knowledge and extensive migration experience. Ensuring Site UP is the top priority, we are laser focused on ensuring site reliability, performance, and security while leading migration efforts to the next generation cloud infrastructure. Consisting of a group of experienced Network Development Engineers and Software Developers, the IES Network Engineering team is the high-octane engine powering the transformation of our data center network to native cloud based infrastructure. This role offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to cutting-edge network engineering and cloud transformation projects, working with diverse teams to shape the future of enterprise networking solutions.

Ideal Candidate: Are you humble yet inquisitive? Ambitious while also pragmatic? Determined and action oriented? Do you find puzzles and problems both exciting and fun? Are you principled while also adaptive? Do you believe variability and complexity are the anthesis of stability and reliability? Do you feel that problem avoidance trumps the diving save? Are you data driven, analytical, and passionate about the customer? Do you describe yourself as a lifelong learner? If you answer yes, then Oracle's IES Federal Network Engineering team is looking for YOU!

Responsibilities

Role specific Responsibilities:

• Design, configure, and manage routing and switching infrastructure to support a highly available, scalable network environment.

• Design, configure, and manage On-Premise and OCI-based firewall services to support highly available, scalable and secure network environments.

• Implement advanced network fabric technologies to optimize performance and enhance data center interconnectivity.

• Automate network provisioning and configuration using scripting tools such as Python and Ansible to ensure operational efficiency and scalability.

• Oversee the end-to-end lifecycle management of network hardware and software, including procurement, deployment, patching, and retirement.

• Implement proactive monitoring solutions to track network performance, security incidents, and system health, ensuring high uptime and operational excellence.

• Lead efforts to ensure network security by continuously assessing vulnerabilities and implementing necessary remediation.

• Evaluate new network components and technologies for potential adoption into the Production environment, ensuring they meet established performance, security, and compliance standards.

• Develop implementation strategies for integrating new components into the existing network architecture, ensuring minimal disruption to operations.

• Design and implement reporting and analytics measuring performance against OKRs, KPIs, and associated SLAS/OLAs.

• Lead continuous improvement and engineering discipline maturity through Root Cause Analysis and Problem Avoidance.

• Architect system demands and requirements into technical solutions.

• Consult with and guide Global Industry Units and Oracle Health groups to migrate legacy environments to next generation Oracle Cloud Infrastructure providing interoperability, security, scalability, and availability for hosted cloud tenants.

• Ensure Financial efficacy through optimal "right sizing" of infrastructure and cloud service components.

• Participate in Production Engineering reviews, of design plans, planned changes, and maintenance plans.

• Assist Audit/Compliance Engineering partners with vulnerability risk assessment and remediation plans.

• Assess and review new network component candidates (releases) for standards adoption and implementation to the Production environment.

• OnCall support of legacy and cloud network environments.

Required Qualifications:

• United States citizenship and federal criminal background check processing including but not limited to submission of SF-86 are requirements for this role.

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, related field or equivalent practical & demonstrated experience.

• 3+ years professional experience engineering solutions and supporting carrier grade, IP based ISP, Webscale, and data center network environments.

• Demonstrated progressive increase in role specific responsibilities and associated complexities.

• 3+ years of experience in Virtual Cloud Network technologies (OCI, Azure, AWS, GCS, etc).

• Expert level acumen with Network life cycle management (LCM) programs including an ability to create and maintain detailed technical documentation of network and cloud system designs, configurations, and methods of procedure.

• Operational experience with GIT/Dev Ops based version control systems including foundational knowledge with branching, merge/pull requests concepts.

• Expert level experience with internet routing protocols and concepts, including but not limited to IP, BGP, iBGP, EGP, MPLS, IS-IS, OSPF, IPSEC, & NAT.

• Advanced level knowledge of IP addressing, CIDR, and RFC 1918 strategy and implementation best practices.

• Advanced level automation experience including proficiency in a combination of Python, Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Docker, JSON, REST and Yaml.

• Advanced level knowledge of Layer 4-7 protocols including TCP, UDP, SMB, RCP, TLS, SSL, DNS, SNMP, SMTP, and SSH.

• Demonstrated ability to perform protocol and packet analysis of traffic flows including communications.

• Advanced level experience in capacity management, traffic engineering, and performance optimization

• Familiarity with system monitoring concepts and ability to define key performance indicators and thresholds for new services.

Additional preferred skills and experience:

• 3 + years Data Center based network service design and management.

• 3+ years of experience designing or provisioning virtual cloud networks.

• Advanced level knowledge of multiple network operating systems including Cisco IOS/NX-OS, PAN-OS, Arista EOS, etc.

• Experience with Agile methodologies and Scrum.

• Experience operating in a Linux/Unix environment.

• Experience translating and managing the Incident to Problem Management workflow through a combination of process automation, defect cataloging, data warehousing, reporting and analytics.

• Demonstrated ability to interpret, describe, and modify CI/CD pipelines related to infrastructure projects

• Practical experience with Apex, Oracle BI, Grafana, or Power BI for system analytics and reporting.

• Experience with network system change management and release management programs.

• Experience with IP Network management tools and applications including IP Control, Blue Cat, and/or IPAM.

• Demonstrated ability to define and measure performance of Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), KPIs, Operational Level Agreements (OLAs), and Service Level Agreements (SLAs).

Disclaimer:

Certain US customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization and occupational health mandates.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $87,000 to $178,100 per annum. May be eligible for bonus and equity.

Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.

Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:

Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion

Short term disability and long term disability

Life insurance and AD&D

Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)

Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts

Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits

401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match

Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.

11 paid holidays

Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.

Paid parental leave

Adoption assistance

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Financial planning and group legal

Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.

Career Level - IC3

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