Director, Hyperscale Network & Cloud Connectivity

Oracle; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 170,000 - 355,000; Full time

Job summary

Oracle is seeking a senior Network Engineering leader to direct one or more teams delivering hyperscale L3/L4 networking and cloud connectivity. You will define tactical and strategic plans, drive cross-group improvements in reliability, security, and cost efficiency, and manage budget targets across the teams you lead.

The role may involve coordinating physical network platform lifecycle, planning, sourcing, sustaining routers/switches, optics, timing, and cabling to enable secure, compliant

Qualifications

• Certain U.S based or U.S. customer-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.

Responsibilities

• L3/L4 Network Topologies and Overlays: Defines multi-quarter architecture roadmap for DC fabrics, routing policy, IPv6 strategy, failure domains, and traffic engineering across regions.
• Leads cross-team design reviews and modernization programs (e.g., EVPN/VXLAN/SDN upgrades); enforces MOP/rollback and verification standards.
• Cloud Networking Implementation and Operations: Standardizes VPC/VCN topologies, transit/peering, PrivateLink/service endpoints, NAT, and inter-/multi-cloud connectivity.
• Optimizes L4/L7 load balancing and service-insertion at scale; enforces cost/SLO guardrails and capacity alignment.
• Network Security Controls and Compliance Guardrails: Embeds zero-trust-aligned segmentation and policy frameworks; drives rulebase lifecycle and tech-debt reduction.
• Automation, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code: Institutionalizes IaC modules/collections and GitOps; mandates code reviews, policy-as-code, testing, and safe deployment patterns (canary/auto-rollback).
• Monitoring, Telemetry, and SLOs: Sets SLI/SLO policy for the group; ensures telemetry pipelines (SNMP/streaming, NetFlow/IPFIX, flow logs) support reliability, capacity, and security analytics.
• Cross-Team Collaboration and Operations Excellence: Leads cross-group incident response and complex changes; coordinates executive updates on high-importance matters.
• Documentation, Reviews, and Standards: Publishes group-level standards, reference architectures, and runbooks; ensures traceability to requirements and controls.
• Core Responsibilities - Planning & Execution: Oversees and guides multiple teams on managing complex projects or initiatives, monitoring timelines, deliverables, and budgets.
• Collaboration & Partnership: Role models cross-functional collaboration; empowers teams to build partnerships with business leaders and customers.
• Problem Solving: Shares strategies for complex operational and technical issues; guides root-cause analysis.
• Continuous Learning: Pursues learning opportunities to maintain expertise and apply best practices.
• Continuous Improvement: Empowers teams to implement ideas that improve processes and workflows.
• Performance and Development: Drives performance and ensures alignment of individual goals with organizational strategy.

Job description

Oracle is seeking a senior Network Engineering leader to direct one or more teams delivering hyperscale L3/L4 networking and cloud connectivity. You will define tactical and strategic plans, drive cross-group improvements in reliability, security, and cost efficiency, and manage budget targets across the teams you lead.

The role may involve coordinating physical network platform lifecycle, planning, sourcing, sustaining routers/switches, optics, timing, and cabling to enable secure, compliant