Senior Manager, RDMA Fabric Design & Engineering

Oracle; United States; On-site; USD 133,100 - 306,400; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

401(k) Matching

Stock Purchase Plan

Paid time off

Job summary

Oracle in the United States seeks a Senior Manager to lead design, architecture, and operations for large-scale RDMA backend fabrics powering AI, HPC, and cloud infrastructure. You will drive end-to-end network decisions and guide teams responsible for fabric validation, deployment, automation, reliability, and lifecycle management.

You will collaborate with silicon vendors, platform engineering, and cloud teams to deliver scalable, resilient networking solutions, establish SLOs and KPIs, and

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in networking, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, or network architecture.
• 3+ years of people leadership experience with direct reports.
• Deep understanding of Layer 2/Layer 3 networking, routing protocols, data center networking, and network architecture.
• Experience designing or operating large-scale backend fabrics.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture and design of large-scale RDMA fabrics supporting AI training, inference, HPC, and cloud workloads.
• Define network topology, routing strategy, congestion management, resiliency, and capacity models for multi-cluster deployments.
• Drive technology evaluation and roadmap decisions across Ethernet, RoCE, InfiniBand, optical networking, and emerging fabric technologies.
• Establish design standards, validation requirements, and deployment readiness criteria for production networks.
• Partner with hardware, systems, and cloud engineering teams to ensure network architecture aligns with platform requirements.

Skills

RDMA Fabric Architecture

Cloud Networking

Data Center Networking

Network Scalability and Performance

Automation and Observability

People Leadership and Talent

Vendor and Stakeholder Management

Incident Management and Root Cause

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering

Tools

Python

Go

Ansible

Job description

Job Description

Leads the design, architecture, engineering, and operational strategy for large-scale RDMA backend fabrics supporting AI, HPC, and cloud infrastructure. This role is responsible for building and scaling high-performance, low-latency network fabrics, driving end‑to‑end network architecture decisions, and leading teams responsible for fabric design, validation, deployment, automation, reliability, and lifecycle management. The Senior Manager partners with silicon vendors, platform engineering, systems architecture, capacity planning, and cloud infrastructure teams to deliver scalable, resilient, and future‑ready networking solutions.

Key Responsibilities – RDMA Fabric Design, Architecture and Scale

• Lead architecture and design of large-scale RDMA fabrics supporting AI training, inference, HPC, and cloud workloads.
• Define network topology, routing strategy, congestion management, resiliency, and capacity models for multi‑cluster deployments.
• Drive technology evaluation and roadmap decisions across Ethernet, RoCE, InfiniBand, optical networking, and emerging fabric technologies.
• Establish design standards, validation requirements, and deployment readiness criteria for production networks.
• Partner with hardware, systems, and cloud engineering teams to ensure network architecture aligns with platform requirements.

Network Engineering, Validation and Reliability

• Oversee lab validation, scale testing, performance benchmarking, and failure scenario analysis.
• Lead root cause analysis for complex network incidents involving congestion, packet loss, latency, or fabric instability.
• Develop strategies to improve network availability, performance, and operational excellence.
• Drive change management and deployment governance processes across multiple engineering teams.
• Establish SLOs, KPIs, and reliability metrics for large‑scale backend networks.

Automation, Telemetry and Operations

• Lead development of automation frameworks for deployment, configuration management, testing, and operations.
• Drive adoption of telemetry, observability, anomaly detection, and network analytics platforms.
• Champion infrastructure‑as‑code and software‑defined networking practices.
• Improve operational efficiency through automation and self‑healing capabilities.

People Leadership and Cross‑Functional Collaboration

• Build and lead a high‑performing team of network architects and engineers.
• Coach and mentor engineers while developing future technical leaders.
• Partner with product, cloud, systems, and infrastructure organizations to align business priorities with engineering execution.
• Drive vendor engagement and influence roadmap decisions with strategic technology partners.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related discipline.
• 12+ years of experience in networking, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, or network architecture.
• 3+ years of people leadership experience with direct reports.
• Deep understanding of Layer 2/Layer 3 networking, routing protocols, data center networking, and network architecture.
• Experience designing or operating large‑scale backend fabrics.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with RDMA technologies including RoCEv2 and/or InfiniBand.
• Experience building hyperscale cloud or large‑scale AI/HPC network infrastructure.
• Knowledge of congestion control, ECMP, traffic engineering, QoS, and lossless Ethernet.
• Experience with network automation using Python, Go, Ansible, or similar technologies.
• Experience with telemetry platforms, network modeling, and capacity planning.
• Experience working with public cloud providers or large cloud environments.
• Advanced degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field.

Key Skills

• RDMA Fabric Architecture
• Cloud Networking
• Data Center Networking
• Network Scalability and Performance Engineering
• Automation and Observability
• People Leadership and Talent Development
• Vendor and Stakeholder Management
• Incident Management and Root Cause Analysis

Legal and Compliance

Disclaimer: Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client‑facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only.

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $133,100 - $306,400 per year. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

Compensation and Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
• Short term disability and long term disability
• Life insurance and AD&D
• Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
• Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Pre‑tax commuter and parking benefits
• 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
• Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non‑overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
• 11 paid holidays
• Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each calendar year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
• Paid parental leave
• Adoption assistance
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Financial planning and group legal
• Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

Career Level - M3

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