Cloud Networking Lead & Data-Center Fabric Architect

Oracle; United States; On-site; USD 115,000 - 235,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) Savings and Investment Plan

Paid time off and holidays

Job summary

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s Physical Networking organization seeks a hands-on Principal Network Engineer to lead data-center fabrics, routing, and secure connectivity for OCI workloads.

You will translate requirements into scalable designs, drive end-to-end projects, and mentor engineers while guiding cross-team decisions across automation and change controls.

You’ll participate in on-call rotations and help shape reliability and security standards at scale.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in network engineering with cross-team initiatives and mentoring.
• Deep understanding of L2-L4 networking, IP addressing, BGP/OSPF, IPv4/IPv6, TCP/IP.
• Hands-on automation for network provisioning, validation, or operations using Python or similar.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture, design, and operation of data-center fabrics, routing, and secure connectivity for OCI infra.
• Translate customer/product requirements into scalable designs and deployment strategies; guide technical decisions.
• Drive complex projects from design through validation, deployment, and handoff with milestones across teams.
• Set direction for network automation; build or guide tools using Python, APIs, Git workflows, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Establish and improve production-change practices, risk assessment, pre-change checks, post-change verification, and rollback.
• Lead improvements to monitoring, capacity planning, runbooks, and incident response; resolve complex issues across protocols and devices.

Skills

Network engineering

Data-center networks

Routing protocols

Python automation

Git APIs CI/CD

Change management

Incident response

Cross-team leadership

Technical leadership

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

YANG

OpenConfig

NETCONF

gNMI

Job description

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s Physical Networking organization seeks a hands-on Principal Network Engineer to lead data-center fabrics, routing, and secure connectivity for OCI workloads.

You will translate requirements into scalable designs, drive end-to-end projects, and mentor engineers while guiding cross-team decisions across automation and change controls.

You’ll participate in on-call rotations and help shape reliability and security standards at scale.