Job Description
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) Data Center 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 data center and cloud service delivery providing the next generation of Cloud services centered on the Autonomous Database.
Intro and description of the Role Description
The IES Data Center Network Engineering team plays a critical role in maintaining a robust and highly available infrastructure that span US and global centers for both IES and OHAI environments. The team’s responsibilities span across core routing and switching, advanced fabric technologies, and network automation, while also 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 Cerner and OHAI tenants to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). To support this, the Data Center Engineering group requires experienced specialized Network Development 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 Development Engineers and Software Developers, the IES Data Center Network Engineering group 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 Data Center Network Engineering team is looking for YOU!
Responsibilities
Required Qualifications
* 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 data center network environments.
* Demonstrated progressive increase in role specific responsibilities and associated complexities
* Experience in Virtual Cloud Network technologies (OCI, Azure, AWS, GCS, etc)
* Expert 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.
* Operational experience with GIT/Dev Ops 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, JSON, REST and Yaml
* Advanced 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
* 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
Additional preferred skills and experience
* 5 + years Data Center based network service design and management
* 3+ years of experience designing or provisioning virtual cloud networks
* Advanced level knowledge of multiple network operating systems including Cisco IOS/NX-OS, PAN-OS, Arista EOS, etc.
* 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.
* Demonstrated ability to interpret, describe, and modify CI/CD pipelines related to infrastructure projects
* Practical experience with Grafana 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).
Career Level - IC5
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