Sr. Network Development Engineer

Oracle is a leading company in cloud services and infrastructure, empowering enterprise customers through innovation. The Sr. Network Development Engineer will be part of the IES Federal Network team, responsible for designing, configuring, and managing network solutions to support Oracle's critical workloads, ensuring site reliability, performance, and security in a cloud environment.

Responsibilities:

• Design, configure, and manage routing and switching infrastructure to support a highly available, scalable network environment
• Design, configure, and manage On-Premise and OCI-based firewall services to support highly available, scalable and secure network environments
• Implement advanced network fabric technologies to optimize performance and enhance data center interconnectivity
• Automate network provisioning and configuration using scripting tools such as Python and Ansible to ensure operational efficiency and scalability
• Oversee the end-to-end lifecycle management of network hardware and software, including procurement, deployment, patching, and retirement
• Implement proactive monitoring solutions to track network performance, security incidents, and system health, ensuring high uptime and operational excellence
• Lead efforts to ensure network security by continuously assessing vulnerabilities and implementing necessary remediation
• Evaluate new network components and technologies for potential adoption into the Production environment, ensuring they meet established performance, security, and compliance standards
• Develop implementation strategies for integrating new components into the existing network architecture, ensuring minimal disruption to operations
• Design and implement reporting and analytics measuring performance against OKRs, KPIs, and associated SLAS/OLAs
• Lead continuous improvement and engineering discipline maturity through Root Cause Analysis and Problem Avoidance
• Architect system demands and requirements into technical solutions
• Consult with and guide Global Industry Units and Oracle Health groups to migrate legacy environments to next generation Oracle Cloud Infrastructure providing interoperability, security, scalability, and availability for hosted cloud tenants
• Ensure Financial efficacy through optimal “right sizing” of infrastructure and cloud service components
• Participate in Production Engineering reviews, of design plans, planned changes, and maintenance plans
• Assist Audit/Compliance Engineering partners with vulnerability risk assessment and remediation plans
• Assess and review new network component candidates (releases) for standards adoption and implementation to the Production environment
• OnCall support of legacy and cloud network environments

Requirements:

• United States citizenship and federal criminal background check processing including but not limited to submission of SF-86 are requirements for this role
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, related field or equivalent practical & demonstrated experience
• 7+ years experience engineering and operating data center focused networking solutions from Cisco, Palo Alto, Citrix, and F5
• 7+ years of experience in Virtual Cloud Network technologies (OCI, Azure, AWS, GCS, etc)
• Expert level knowledge of multiple network operating systems including Cisco IOS/NX-OS/ACI-OS, PAN-OS, Arista EOS, etc
• Expert level experience with internet routing protocols and concepts, including but not limited to IP, BGP, iBGP, EGP, MPLS, IS-IS, OSPF, IPSEC, & NAT
• Expert level knowledge of IP addressing, CIDR, and RFC 1918 strategy and implementation best practices
• Expert level knowledge of Layer 4-7 protocols including TCP, UDP, SMB, RCP, TLS, SSL, HTTP, HTTPS, DNS, SNMP, SMTP, and SSH
• Advanced level knowledge building and deploying Infrastructure as Code (IaC) in Cloud environments (OCI, AWS, Azure, GCP) using Terraform
• Advanced level automation experience including proficiency in a combination of languages such as Python, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, JSON, and YAML
• Deep understanding of cloud networking constructs - VPC/VCN, DRG/TGW, VPN, private connectivity technologies, subnets, firewalls, load balancers, routing, and security lists
• Strong operational experience with Git-based version control (branching, code review, merge/pull requests) and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines
• Experience with writing scripts that use REST APIs, Syslog, SNMP and other Network Management Systems
• Demonstrated ability to perform protocol and packet analysis of traffic flows including HTTP, HTTPS communications
• Expert level experience in capacity management, traffic engineering, and performance optimization
• Demonstrated progressive increase in role specific responsibilities and associated complexities
• Expert level acumen with Network life cycle management (LCM) programs including an ability to create and maintain detailed technical documentation of network and cloud system designs, configurations, and methods of procedure
• Experience with Agile methodologies and Scrum
• Experience operating in a Linux/Unix environment
• Experience translating and managing the Incident to Problem Management workflow through a combination of process automation, defect cataloging, data warehousing, reporting and analytics
• Practical experience with Apex, Oracle BI, Grafana, or Power BI for system analytics and reporting
• Experience with network system change management and release management programs
• Experience with IP Network management tools and applications including IP Control, Blue Cat, and/or IPAM
• Demonstrated ability to define and measure performance of Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), KPIs, Operational Level Agreements (OLAs), and Service Level Agreements (SLAs)