Senior RDMA Network Architect for AI & HPC

Oracle; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Oracle is seeking an senior network engineering leader to design, deploy, and validate large-scale RDMA/RoCE fabrics supporting OCI AI, GPU, and HPC workloads. You will drive scalable architectures, reliability, and operational readiness across a global cloud environment.

The role requires hands-on experience in data center networking, automation, and observability, with a track record of leading cross-functional initiatives and mentoring engineers toward best practices in high-performance

Qualifications

• Experience designing, operating, and troubleshooting large-scale RDMA/RoCE networks.
• Knowledge of RDMA, RoCE, Ethernet fabrics, QoS and AI/GPU networking.
• Expertise with routing and switching: BGP, OSPF, EVPN-VXLAN.
• Experience with network automation using Python, Ansible, APIs.
• Experience with network telemetry, observability, monitoring, performance analysis, and incident management.
• Ability to lead complex technical initiatives and collaborate across teams.

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.

Skills

RDMA/RoCE networking

Cloud data center networking

Automation tooling

Telemetry & observability

Incident response & troubleshooting

Cross-functional leadership

Tools

Python

Ansible

APIs

Job description

Oracle is seeking an senior network engineering leader to design, deploy, and validate large-scale RDMA/RoCE fabrics supporting OCI AI, GPU, and HPC workloads. You will drive scalable architectures, reliability, and operational readiness across a global cloud environment.

The role requires hands-on experience in data center networking, automation, and observability, with a track record of leading cross-functional initiatives and mentoring engineers toward best practices in high-performance