Sr. Network Engineer

US Citizen & Federal / Government background screening required

Organizational Overview

Oracle Cloud continues to drive innovation across the infrastructure and cloud services space, empowering enterprise customers worldwide through automation, scalability, and security. The Infrastructure Engineering Services (IES) Federal Network team plays a foundational role in this mission, delivering enterprise-grade networking and security solutions that power Oracle's most critical workloads across US-based OCI and OHAI data centers for our Federal customers.

Role Description

The IES Federal Network team is responsible for the network strategy, support, and standardization of the Federal environment in OHAI’s US-based data centers and cloud footprint. The team’s responsibilities span across core routing and switching, security services including firewall management, advanced fabric technologies, OCI cloud networking, and network automation. They are responsible for managing monitoring, security, and lifecycle management of hardware and software. The team's work underpins network operations, engineering, architecture, and automation for several cross-functional teams, ensuring a smooth and scalable network environment. One of the team's core priorities is the migration of our Federal clients to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). To support this, the Federal Network team requires experienced specialized Network Engineers who possess both deep architectural knowledge and extensive migration experience. 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 Engineers, the IES Federal Network team is the high-octane engine powering the transformation of our data center network to native cloud based infrastructure. This role offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to cutting-edge network engineering and cloud transformation projects, working with diverse teams to shape the future of enterprise networking solutions.

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 Federal Network team is looking for YOU!

Role specific 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.

Required Qualifications:

• 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.

Additional preferred skills and experience:

• 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).