Head of Hyperscale Network Engineering

Oracle; Reston (VA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 355,000; Full time

Job summary

Oracle in Reston, Virginia, is seeking a senior Network Engineering leader to guide one or more teams delivering hyperscale L3/L4 networking and cloud connectivity. Define tactical and strategic plans, drive cross‑group improvements in reliability, security, and cost efficiency, and communicate progress and risks to executive leadership.

You will manage budget elements and coordinate the physical network platform lifecycle, ensuring interoperable, cost‑ and power‑efficient components for

Qualifications

• Must have strong leadership skills and ability to guide multiple teams.
• Experience with hyperscale networking and cloud connectivity is preferred.

Responsibilities

• 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; enforces MOP/rollback and verification standards.
• 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.
• Embeds zero-trust-aligned segmentation and policy frameworks; drives rulebase lifecycle and tech-debt reduction.
• Leads audit readiness and risk reduction programs with Security/GRC; implements policy-as-code and preventative controls.
• Institutionalizes IaC modules/collections and GitOps; mandates code reviews, policy-as-code, testing, and safe deployment patterns (canary/auto-rollback).
• Sets SLI/SLO policy for the group; ensures telemetry pipelines (SNMP/streaming, NetFlow/IPFIX, flow logs) support reliability, capacity, and security analytics.
• Chairs capacity/performance reviews; directs right-sizing, routing optimization, and placement decisions.
• Leads cross-group incident response and complex changes; coordinates executive updates on high-importance matters.
• Publishes group-level standards, reference architectures, and runbooks; ensures traceability to requirements and controls.

Job description

Oracle in Reston, Virginia, is seeking a senior Network Engineering leader to guide one or more teams delivering hyperscale L3/L4 networking and cloud connectivity. Define tactical and strategic plans, drive cross‑group improvements in reliability, security, and cost efficiency, and communicate progress and risks to executive leadership.

You will manage budget elements and coordinate the physical network platform lifecycle, ensuring interoperable, cost‑ and power‑efficient components for