Principal Network Architect, DC Fabric & Automation

Oracle Corporation; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 115,000 - 235,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Short term disability and long term

Life insurance and AD&D

401(k) Savings and Investment Plan

Paid time off

Paid holidays

Paid sick leave

Paid parental leave

Adoption assistance

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Voluntary benefits including auto,home

Job summary

Oracle Corporation in Nashville seeks a hands‑on Principal Network Engineer to lead architecture, design, and operation of OCI’s physical network fabrics, routing, and secure connectivity for workloads. You will translate requirements into scalable designs and guide technical decisions across teams.

The role emphasizes automation, Python scripting, IaC, and collaboration with network automation, compute, hardware, security, monitoring, and operations teams to deliver reliable, secure deployments

Qualifications

• At least 10 years of relevant network engineering experience, including cross‑team technical initiatives and mentoring engineers.
• Deep understanding of Layer 2 through Layer 4 networking, IP addressing/subnetting, BGP, OSPF, IPv4/IPv6, TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, NAT, ECMP, and high availability.
• Experience leading the design, deployment, or operation of data center, cloud, service provider, or large-enterprise networks.
• Hands-on automation of network provisioning, configuration, validation, or operations using Python or another programming language.
• Experience shaping engineering practices with Git, APIs, CI/CD, and infrastructure‑as‑code.
• Experience leading production network changes with risk assessment, validation, rollback, and change-management controls.
• Demonstrated ability to diagnose complex issues across protocols, devices, and automation systems, guiding resolutions.
• Experience leading incident response, root-cause analysis, and operational readiness improvements.
• Ability to drive complex technical work and influence across engineering and operations teams.
• Strong written and verbal communication to produce clear designs and align stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture, design, and operation of data‑center fabrics, routing, and secure connectivity for OCI’s physical network infrastructure.
• Translate requirements into scalable designs, configuration standards, and deployment strategies; guide technical decisions and tradeoffs.
• Independently drive complex projects from design through validation, deployment, documentation, and handoff across teams.
• Set direction for network automation and validation; build or guide tools using Python, APIs, Git, and infrastructure‑as‑code.
• Establish and improve production‑change practices including risk assessment, pre‑change checks, post‑change verification, and rollback.
• Lead improvements to monitoring, capacity planning, runbooks, and incident response; resolve issues spanning protocols, devices, optics, and automation.
• Participate in on‑call rotation; provide technical leadership during large‑scale network incidents and drive corrective actions.
• Lead design reviews, develop repeatable standards and reference patterns, and mentor engineers through guidance and knowledge sharing.
• Represent the team in cross‑team initiatives affecting network reliability, security, and deployment at scale.

Skills

Networking engineering

Automation

Python scripting

Git workflows

API integration

Infrastructure as Code

On-call/incident response

Cross-team leadership

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

YANG/OpenConfig

NETCONF

gNMI

CI/CD

Job description

Oracle Corporation in Nashville seeks a hands‑on Principal Network Engineer to lead architecture, design, and operation of OCI’s physical network fabrics, routing, and secure connectivity for workloads. You will translate requirements into scalable designs and guide technical decisions across teams.

The role emphasizes automation, Python scripting, IaC, and collaboration with network automation, compute, hardware, security, monitoring, and operations teams to deliver reliable, secure deployments