Senior RDMA Fabric Architect & Engineering Lead

Oracle; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 133,000 - 306,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off and holidays

Job summary

Oracle is seeking a Senior Manager to lead the design, architecture, engineering, and operational strategy for large-scale RDMA backend fabrics enabling AI, HPC, and cloud workloads. You will define topology, routing, and capacity models, drive technology roadmaps, and partner with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, reliable networking solutions.

You will oversee validation, performance benchmarking, incident analysis, automation, and governance, building a high-performing team of

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.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture and design of large-scale RDMA fabrics supporting AI, 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Skills

RDMA Fabric Architecture

Cloud Networking

Data Center Networking

Network Scalability and Performance

Automation and Observability

People Leadership

Vendor Management

Incident Management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

RDMA RoCEv2

InfiniBand

Job description

Oracle is seeking a Senior Manager to lead the design, architecture, engineering, and operational strategy for large-scale RDMA backend fabrics enabling AI, HPC, and cloud workloads. You will define topology, routing, and capacity models, drive technology roadmaps, and partner with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, reliable networking solutions.

You will oversee validation, performance benchmarking, incident analysis, automation, and governance, building a high-performing team of