Senior CLOS Leaf-Spine Network Architect

Oracle; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 102,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Bonus & equity

Job summary

Oracle Nashville, TN is seeking an experienced network architect to design and operate large-scale leaf-spine data center networks, implement CLOS NW for cloud services, and lead firmware upgrades in coordination with operations and deployment teams.

You will work with Arista EOS, Nexus NX-OS, VXLAN, EVPN, RDMA/RoCE, and high-bandwidth fabrics, drive automation with Python and Ansible, and mentor engineers while shaping architecture decisions and risk mitigation strategies.

Qualifications

• Experience designing large-scale leaf-spine and multi-fabric data center networks.
• Hands-on Ethernet switching, BGP, EVPN/VXLAN, IP addressing, routing scale, ECMP, QoS, and network segmentation.
• Strong knowledge of management, OOB, console-server, and production data-center network architectures.
• Experience with network OS and hardware such as Arista EOS, Nexus/NX-OS, NVIDIA Spectrum/Cumulus.
• Experience designing or operating AI/HPC/GPU cluster networking including RDMA/RoCE and high-bandwidth fabrics.
• Experience leading firmware lifecycle management, configuration standardization, vulnerability remediation, and network change governance.

Responsibilities

• Designs and validates advanced network systems for scalable enterprise, data center, or cloud environments.
• Validates production networks and develops scaling strategies for evolving use cases.
• Participates in solution architecture discussions, providing guidance on requirements, tradeoffs, and design decisions.
• Identifies risks in network design and recommends mitigation strategies before deployment.
• Collaborates with vendors and internal teams to align on hardware, firmware, software, and cloud network code requirements.
• Designs playbooks for resolving network issues involving moderately complex systems.
• Analyzes network workflows to identify inefficiencies and proposes scalable improvements.

Skills

Leaf-spine design

CLOS NW design

BGP EVPN VXLAN

Data center networking

Firmware lifecycle mgmt

Automation scripting (Python)

Tools

Arista EOS

Cisco Nexus/NX-OS

NVIDIA Spectrum/Cumulus

RDMA RoCE

Job description

Oracle Nashville, TN is seeking an experienced network architect to design and operate large-scale leaf-spine data center networks, implement CLOS NW for cloud services, and lead firmware upgrades in coordination with operations and deployment teams.

You will work with Arista EOS, Nexus NX-OS, VXLAN, EVPN, RDMA/RoCE, and high-bandwidth fabrics, drive automation with Python and Ansible, and mentor engineers while shaping architecture decisions and risk mitigation strategies.