AI-Driven Network Automation Lead Architect

Oracle; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 146,000 - 306,000; Full time

Job summary

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) seeks a Lead Principal Software Engineer in Nashville to own architecture for AI-driven network automation and tooling that operates OCI’s global physical network. You will remain hands-on in critical design, mentor engineers, and set standards for reliability and safe automation across production systems.

You will define long-term roadmaps, lead distributed, event-driven designs, and mentor senior engineers while partnering with network operations leaders to

Qualifications

• 15+ years of software engineering or related leadership experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering or equivalent.
• Strong Java and Python production software experience.
• Experience designing distributed systems and APIs.
• Experience guiding complex projects to production.
• Experience with network operations or large-scale infra.
• Experience building AI/ML capabilities for operations.
• Strong Linux knowledge, CI/CD, observability, and incident response.

Responsibilities

• Define long-term architecture and roadmap for physical network automation, validation, observability, and AI-driven operations across OCI.
• Lead the design of distributed, event-driven systems at global scale.
• Architect AI decision systems for anomaly detection, fault diagnosis, capacity forecasting, and remediation.
• Direct the development of agent workflows that discover and invoke approved capabilities and coordinate tools and services.
• Establish controls for actions affecting production networks, including identity, approval gates, validation, and audit trails.
• Define evaluation and observability standards for AI-driven capabilities and measure outcomes.
• Set architecture and engineering standards across APIs, data pipelines, deployment, and production operations.
• Advise senior leaders on technical investments and mentor engineers.

Skills

Java

Python

Distributed systems

CI/CD

Linux

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Containers

Job description

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) seeks a Lead Principal Software Engineer in Nashville to own architecture for AI-driven network automation and tooling that operates OCI’s global physical network. You will remain hands-on in critical design, mentor engineers, and set standards for reliability and safe automation across production systems.

You will define long-term roadmaps, lead distributed, event-driven designs, and mentor senior engineers while partnering with network operations leaders to