Principal Network Development Engineer

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.  Consisting of a group of experienced Network Development Engineers, Cloud Architects, and Software Developers, the IES Cloud Network Engineering group is the high-octane engine powering the transformation of our Cloud based Network infrastructure.

Ideal Candidate:  Are you humble yet inquisitive?  Ambitious while also pragmatic? Determined and action oriented?  Do you find puzzles and problems both exciting and fun? Are you principled while also adaptive? Do you believe variability and complexity are the anthesis of stability and reliability?  Do you feel that problem avoidance trumps the diving save? Are you data driven, analytical, and passionate about the customer? Do you describe yourself as a lifelong learner? If you answer yes, then Oracle’s IES Cloud Network Engineering team is looking for YOU! 

Preferred 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, related field or equivalent practical & demonstrated experience
• 3+ years professional experience engineering solutions and supporting carrier grade, IP based ISP, Webscale, and cloud-provider network environments.
• Demonstrated 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 acumen with Cloud and 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.
• Advanced level knowledge building infrastructure as code leveraging technologies including Terraform and Shepherd.
• Operational experience with GIT based version control systems including foundational knowledge with branching, merge/pull requests concepts. 
• Expert 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
• Advanced level automation experience including proficiency in a combination of Python, Ansible, Chef, Docker, TerraForm, Shepherd, JSON, REST, iControl, Bash, Yaml, and iControlRest.
• Advanced level knowledge of Layer 4-7 protocols including TCP, UDP, AH, ESP, 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
• Advanced level experience in cloud environment design engineering, planning and support of IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, & LBaaS offerings.
• Advanced level experience in capacity management, traffic engineering, and performance optimization
• Familiarity with system monitoring concepts and ability to define key performance indicators and thresholds for new services

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