Senior Director, Hyperscale Cloud Network & Reliability

Oracle; Ashburn (VA); On-site; USD 230,000 - 340,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Disability insurance

Life insurance and AD&D

401(k) match

Paid time off

Job summary

Oracle seeks a Senior Director Network Development to lead engineering teams ensuring OCI’s global physical network delivers high performance, security, and reliability for cloud workloads. Reporting to the VP of Engineering, this leader will drive operations, incident response, change governance, and continuous service improvement across the hyperscale network footprint.

This role requires deep expertise in physical networking, global leadership, and the ability to align network design with

Qualifications

• Senior leadership experience in networking.
• Experience with SDN/intent-based networking.
• Strong collaboration with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Define and govern multi-year architecture and design standards across cloud, data center, WAN, and edge; ensure resilience, security, and compliance objectives.
• Sponsor transformational programs (SDN/intent-based networking, zero-trust segmentation) and enforce design reviews, configuration baselines, and lifecycle policies across regions.
• Establish enterprise validation strategy for new architectures, hardware/firmware, and software at scale; require pre-production proofs, pilot rollouts, and rollback plans.
• Align network roadmap with product and platform strategies; balance innovation with reliability, cost, and regulatory constraints.
• Set group strategy for network automation frameworks, pipelines, and “policy as code”; standardize reusable modules, guardrails, and CI/CD for network changes.
• Prioritize automation investments that reduce toil, increase change velocity, and improve MTTR; track benefits through measurable KPIs and error budget adherence.
• Ensure secure-by-design automation practices, including access controls, audit trails, and compliance checkpoints; drive adoption across all regions and teams in the group.
• Own group-wide test strategy and acceptance criteria for configurations, images, and changes; mandate automated regression, canary/blue‑green rollouts, and production‑safety checks.
• Institutionalize quality gates and change readiness reviews; ensure RCAs and corrective actions are integrated into test plans and playbooks.
• Run governance forums to assess test coverage, defect escape, and reliability risk; direct group-wide corrective and preventive action priorities and timelines.
• Define network health strategy, SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets across services and regions; enforce consistent telemetry, alerting, and runbook standards.
• Lead executive-level incident management for high‑severity events; enforce consistent RCA quality, cross‑org learnings, and durable remediation at scale.
• Drive resiliency investments (redundancy, fault isolation, DR exercises); validate business continuity and recovery outcomes against policy and regulatory needs.

Job description

Oracle seeks a Senior Director Network Development to lead engineering teams ensuring OCI’s global physical network delivers high performance, security, and reliability for cloud workloads. Reporting to the VP of Engineering, this leader will drive operations, incident response, change governance, and continuous service improvement across the hyperscale network footprint.

This role requires deep expertise in physical networking, global leadership, and the ability to align network design with