Director of Cloud Network Engineering

Organizational Overview 

Oracle Cloud continues innovative breakthroughs providing Autonomous Database and cloud services to an ever-increasing customer base.  Oracle’s Infrastructure Engineering Services (IES) Cloud Services group is an industry leader focused on innovation, service delivery, and migration of traditional, on-premises workloads to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Our customer base includes fortune 500 and industry leaders across a variety of sectors including Federal/Government, Communications, Financial Services, Health Sciences, Hospitality, Retail, Utilities, Construction and Engineering.  Together, we are purposeful, industry leading experts in cloud service delivery providing the next generation of Cloud services centered on the Autonomous Database.

Intro and description of the Role Description

Leading the transformation and migration for the IES Cloud Services customers, our Cloud Networking group, designs, plans, and delivers, the OCI cloud infrastructure services for our hosted tenants.  Ensuring Site UP is the top priority, we are laser focused on ensuring site reliability, performance, and security while leading migration efforts to the next generation cloud infrastructure.  The group is a mix of experienced Network Development Engineers, Cloud Architects, and Software Developers which is the high-octane engine powering the transformation of our Cloud based Network infrastructure.

Ideal Candidate:  Do you enjoy leading and managing the diverse skill sets, capabilities, and personalities of a geographically dispersed group of Senior Engineers?  Do you thrive in efforts to minimize complexity while driving hyper scale solutions?  Are you analytical and data driven?  Is prioritization and resource management a fundamental strength you possess?  Do you believe highly effective teams are built on trust and respect?  If positive responses to these questions describe you, then Oracle’s IES Cloud Network Engineering group is looking for YOU! 

Career Level - M4

Role specific Responsibilities:

• Manage and lead a team of highly skilled and experienced Network Development Engineers
• Lead the architecture and design of process and technology solutions enabling SaaS component risk assessment, defect cataloging, and maintenance prioritization.
• Architect and design technical solutions supporting system demands and requirements.
• Design and implement reporting and analytics measuring performance against OKRs, KPIs, and associated SLAS/OLAs.
• Lead continuous improvement and engineering discipline maturity through planning, design, optimization, and migration of product workloads into OCI hosted cloud environments.
• Consult and guide Global Industry Units and Oracle Health groups migration of hosted environments to next generation Oracle Cloud Infrastructure ensuring interoperability, security, scalability, and availability for cloud tenants. 
• Ensure Financial efficacy through optimal “right sizing” of infrastructure and cloud service components.
• Lead Engineering design reviews, supporting migration, and new environment go live commitments.
• Assist Audit/Compliance Engineering partners with vulnerability risk assessment and remediation plans.
• Design, Migrate, & Support Oracle Cloud based Virtual Network SaaS components including OCI US Government and Federal environments.
• Design and deliver Virtual Cloud Network infrastructure and associated network transit from classic enterprise, hybrid and native cloud environments for Global Industry Units including Oracle Health and AI customers.

Required Qualifications: 

• United States citizenship and federal criminal background check processing including but not limited to submission of SF-85 are requirements for this role.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, related field or equivalent practical & demonstrated experience
• 3+ years  of professional experience engineering solutions and supporting carrier grade, IP based ISP, Webscale, and cloud-provider network environments. 
• Advanced level experience in cloud environment design engineering, planning and support of IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, & LBaaS offerings.
• 3+ years of experience leading technical Engineering teams with a Cloud Networking Environment focus with progressive increase in role specific responsibilities and associated complexities
• 3+ years of experience in Virtual Cloud Network technologies (OCI, Azure, AWS, GCS, etc)
• Expert level experience in capacity management, traffic engineering, and performance optimization
• Advanced level knowledge building infrastructure as code leveraging technologies including Terraform and Shepherd.
• Practical experience with