Principal Architect, Cloud Engineering - Networking

Principal Architect, Cloud Engineering - Networking

Cloud Engineering is looking for Cloud Architects to provide guidance to our most 
meaningful customers on our networking products in the context of pre-sales 
engagements.

Do you possess deep technical skills in network architecture and cloud computing; as 
well as customer facing skills, a passion for educating, designing, and building cloud 
solutions for a diverse and challenging set of enterprise customers? If so, we hope to 
meet you!

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is the next generation cloud service built from 
grounds up for the most demanding application requirements with diverse 
performance, reliability, and governance requirements for a variety of customer use 
cases. We've focused on security, reliability, scalability and flexibility to support 
existing and future enterprise level large and complex deployments while beating 
industry performance and pricing standards. We are rapidly expanding our footprint 
and continuously building innovative solutions!

If you are looking to be part of a highly technical team helping to establish Oracle 
Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) as the leading cloud computing platform for enterprises, as 
well as having a strong passion for helping customers understand network 
architectures and integration approaches, this is a great opportunity to do so.
As a Solutions Architect, you will work closely with Oracle Sales, OCI product teams 
and partner with teams across Oracle to craft cloud architectures that address 
customer business problems and accelerate the adoption of OCI services. You will 
continuously experiment on our platform, building, deploying and migrating 
application solutions and use cases our customers currently use or plan to use and 
create most optimal architectures and device standard methodologies. As a trusted 
customer advocate, the solutions architect will help organizations understand standard
methodologies around advanced cloud-based networking solutions, and how to migrate
existing workloads to the cloud. 

The ideal candidate will have a solid understanding of large-scale networking solutions and enjoys keeping the existing technical skills sharp and developing new ones.
Help shape the next generation of cloud computing and influence the adoption and 
usage patterns among enterprise and web-scale customers. You should have a 
demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, create technical definition 
around customer objectives in complex situations, develop solution strategies, 
empower and mobilize resources, and deliver results.

Basic qualifications
·The right person will possess 7+ years of network design/consulting experience 
in the software or infrastructure industries and demonstrate an advance 
understanding of applications, server technologies and network routing & 
security.
·Have spent at least 5+ years of their career in customer facing roles with a 
demonstrable record of earning trust as well as effective collaborations across 
multiple internal organizations and in interactions with partners and customers.
·Expert level understanding of at least one public cloud (such as OCI, AWS, 
Azure and GCP) provider is a must.
·Hands-on experience with major networking technologies including BGP, OSPF, 
SD-WAN, Layer 2 and troubleshooting is required.
·Experience with major WAN connectivity options (including MPLS L3VPN, 
EoMPLS, DIA, VPLS, dark fiber, dedicated circuits, etc.) and working with 
global carriers offering such services is required.
·Experience with IPSec VPN, Load Balancers, DNS, NAT, WAF, SD-WAN and 
CDN solutions.
·Experience with 3rd party firewall solutions from Palo Alto, Fortinet, Cisco, 
Juniper and Check Point.
·Strong verbal and written communications skills. Experience writing and 
publishing technical documents for a diverse audience.
·BS/MS degree required; Computer Science, Math or Engineering degree with 
technical background highly desired; Advanced Degree or Cloud certifications.

Preferred qualifications
·Ability to research, test and document new technologies.
·Experience with complex network architecture tuning and performance 
enhancements.
·Familiarity with common enterprise solutions from Oracle, Microsoft, VMWare, 
or others.
·Networking professional certifications such as CCIE/CCNP, JNCIE/JNCIP or 
others.
·Experience with Linux, network monitoring and telemetry solutions.
·Experience with automation frameworks or programing languages, such as 
Terraform, Ansible, Python, Go, or others.

Certifications:

OCI Architect Associate
OCI Architect Professional
OCI Networking ProfessionalAWS Certified Solutions Arch