Principal Network Developer

Ll Oefentherapie; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Ll Oefentherapie is seeking an expert Network Architect to lead the design, deployment, and operation of large-scale RDMA/RoCE network fabrics across OCI AI, GPU, and HPC infrastructure in a US-based setting. You will drive scalable designs, validate configurations, and guide cross-functional teams in performance and reliability initiatives.

You will mentor engineers, develop automation pipelines, and own test strategies, change reviews, and deployment readiness for high-performance networks,

Qualifications

• Experience designing, operating, and troubleshooting large-scale RDMA/RoCE, cloud, data center, or high-performance networks.
• Knowledge of RDMA, RoCE, Ethernet fabrics, congestion control, QoS, and AI/GPU networking.
• Expertise in routing and switching technologies, including BGP, OSPF, EVPN-VXLAN, and data center networking.
• Experience with network automation using Python, Ansible, APIs, or similar technologies.
• Experience with network telemetry, observability, monitoring, performance analysis, and incident management.
• Experience supporting hyperscale cloud, AI/GPU, HPC, or large-scale distributed infrastructure.
• Ability to lead complex technical initiatives and collaborate across engineering, operations, customers, and vendors.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, deployment, validation, and lifecycle management of large-scale RDMA/RoCE network fabrics supporting OCI AI, GPU, and HPC infrastructure.
• Translate network architectures into scalable designs and deployment plans, ensuring performance, reliability, and operational readiness across OCI’s global cloud environment.
• Serve as technical lead for complex network initiatives spanning RDMA/RoCE fabrics, data center networking, automation, testing, deployment, and operations.
• Develop automation frameworks, tools, scripts, and infrastructure pipelines to improve network deployment, testing, reliability, and operational efficiency.
• Design test strategies and lead pre-production validation, network change reviews, and deployment readiness for high-performance network fabrics.
• Build and enhance telemetry, monitoring, dashboards, and alerting to identify network health, congestion, performance, and reliability issues.
• Lead incident response, complex troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and corrective actions for network issues impacting OCI AI and GPU workloads.
• Analyze network performance and capacity, including latency, throughput, packet loss, and congestion, to drive scalable improvements.
• Partner across OCI Network Engineering, SRE, AI Infrastructure, Data Center Operations, product teams, and vendors to deliver reliable network solutions.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to network architecture, engineering standards, operational tooling, and continuous improvement.

Job description

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design, deployment, validation, and lifecycle management of large-scale RDMA/RoCE network fabrics supporting OCI AI, GPU, and HPC infrastructure.
• Translate network architectures into scalable designs and deployment plans, ensuring performance, reliability, and operational readiness across OCI’s global cloud environment.
• Serve as technical lead for complex network initiatives spanning RDMA/RoCE fabrics, data center networking, automation, testing, deployment, and operations.
• Develop automation frameworks, tools, scripts, and infrastructure pipelines to improve network deployment, testing, reliability, and operational efficiency.
• Design test strategies and lead pre-production validation, network change reviews, and deployment readiness for high-performance network fabrics.
• Build and enhance telemetry, monitoring, dashboards, and alerting to identify network health, congestion, performance, and reliability issues.
• Lead incident response, complex troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and corrective actions for network issues impacting OCI AI and GPU workloads.
• Analyze network performance and capacity, including latency, throughput, packet loss, and congestion, to drive scalable improvements.
• Partner across OCI Network Engineering, SRE, AI Infrastructure, Data Center Operations, product teams, and vendors to deliver reliable network solutions.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to network architecture, engineering standards, operational tooling, and continuous improvement.
• Preferred Skills & Experience
• Experience designing, operating, and troubleshooting large-scale RDMA/RoCE, cloud, data center, or high-performance networks.
• Knowledge of RDMA, RoCE, Ethernet fabrics, congestion control, QoS, and AI/GPU networking.
• Expertise in routing and switching technologies, including BGP, OSPF, EVPN-VXLAN, and data center networking.
• Experience with network automation using Python, Ansible, APIs, or similar technologies.
• Experience with network telemetry, observability, monitoring, performance analysis, and incident management.
• Experience supporting hyperscale cloud, AI/GPU, HPC, or large-scale distributed infrastructure.
• Ability to lead complex technical initiatives and collaborate across engineering, operations, customers, and vendors.