Sr. Network Engineer

Oracle is a leader in cloud solutions and infrastructure services, seeking a Sr. Network Engineer to join their IES Federal Network team. This role focuses on managing and engineering network solutions for federal customers, ensuring site reliability and performance while facilitating migrations to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

Responsibilities:

• Engineer, configure, and manage routing and switching infrastructure to support a highly available, scalable network environment
• Engineer, configure, and manage On-Premise and OCI-based firewall services to support highly available, scalable and secure network environments
• Implement and operate advanced network fabric technologies to optimize performance and enhance data center interconnectivity
• Operate and optimize 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
• Implement and optimize strategies for integrating new components into the existing network architecture, ensuring minimal disruption to operations
• Iimplement and optimize reporting and analytics measuring performance against OKRs, KPIs, and associated SLAS/OLAs
• Support continuous improvement and engineering discipline maturity through Root Cause Analysis and Problem Avoidance
• 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 data center 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
• 5+ years experience engineering and operating data center focused networking solutions from Cisco, Palo Alto, Citrix, and F5
• Intermediate level knowledge of multiple network operating systems including Cisco IOS/NX-OS/ACI-OS, PAN-OS, Arista EOS, etc
• Intermediate level experience with internet routing protocols and concepts, including but not limited to IP, BGP, iBGP, EGP, MPLS, IS-IS, OSPF, IPSEC, & NAT
• Advanced level knowledge of IP addressing, CIDR, and RFC 1918 strategy and implementation best practices
• Intermediate level knowledge of Layer 4-7 protocols including TCP, UDP, SMB, RCP, TLS, SSL, HTTP, HTTPS, DNS, SNMP, SMTP, and SSH
• Demonstrated ability to perform protocol and packet analysis of traffic flows including HTTP, HTTPS communications
• Intermediate level experience in capacity management, traffic engineering, and performance optimization
• Demonstrated progressive increase in role specific responsibilities and associated complexities
• Intermediate 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
• Familiarity with system monitoring concepts and ability to define key performance indicators and thresholds for new services
• 5+ years of experience in Virtual Cloud Network technologies (OCI, Azure, AWS, GCS, etc)
• Intermediate level knowledge building and deploying Infrastructure as Code (IaC) in Cloud environments (OCI, AWS, Azure, GCP) using Terraform
• Intermediate level automation experience including proficiency in a combination of languages such as Python, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, JSON, and YAML
• 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
• 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)