Network Developer 4

Role Overview

We are the AI Infrastructure - Network Operations team at OCI.  We support and operate the RDMA/RoCE network fabrics for OCI's largest AI and HPC customers.  These fabrics are the foundation underneath OCI's AI, GPU and HPC services, and support major tier-0 vendors in the generative AI industry. If you're running an AI workload at OCI, we're running the RDMA network underneath your workload.

A Principal Network Engineer on our team supports the design, deployment, and operations of a large-scale global Oracle cloud computing environment (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - OCI).  Primarily focused on operation and support of RDMA/RoCE network fabrics and systems, through a combination of a deep network understanding and automation skills to operate a production environment.  As OCI is a cloud-based network with a global footprint, this support will include hundreds of thousands of network devices supporting millions of servers, connected over a mix of dedicated backbone infrastructure and the Internet.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

• Lead network lifecycle management initiatives by defining technical objectives, delivery plans, and implementation procedures for large-scale network infrastructure projects.

• Translate high-level network architectures into detailed designs and deployment plans while ensuring scalability, reliability, and operational readiness.

• Serve as the technical lead for moderately complex network projects, coordinating the efforts of multiple engineers across design, deployment, automation, and operational support.

• Design, implement, and support network solutions across data center, backbone, cloud, and service provider environments.

• Partner with service owners and infrastructure teams to ensure network solutions are fully integrated with monitoring, observability, automation, and operational support systems.

• Act as a Tier 2 and specialized escalation point for network incidents, driving root cause analysis, corrective actions, and long-term reliability improvements.

• Lead the investigation and resolution of complex network issues and large-scale service-impacting events.

• Develop automation solutions, tools, and scripts to improve operational efficiency, network reliability, deployment consistency, and incident response.

• Contribute to the design and delivery of network automation frameworks and operational tooling.

• Collaborate closely with product teams, program managers, network leadership, and PMO organizations to align infrastructure capabilities with product and service requirements.

• Partner with vendor engineering teams and account managers to troubleshoot issues, evaluate new technologies, and drive operational improvements.

• Participate in hardware evaluations, RFQ/RFP processes, and adoption of new networking technologies and platforms.

• Drive technology decisions that support business, product, and service objectives.

• Mentor junior engineers through technical guidance, troubleshooting support, design reviews, and knowledge sharing.

• Contribute to engineering best practices, documentation standards, operational excellence, and continuous improvement initiatives.

• Strong experience with large-scale network operations, design, and troubleshooting.

• Expertise in routing and switching technologies, including BGP, OSPF, EVPN-VXLAN, MPLS, and data center networking.

• Experience with network automation using Python, Ansible, APIs, or similar technologies.

• Strong understanding of observability, monitoring, telemetry, and incident management.

• Experience working with cloud infrastructure, hyperscale environments, or large-scale distributed systems.

• Ability to lead technical projects and influence outcomes across multiple teams.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to work effectively across engineering, operations, and leadership teams.

Requirements & Qualifications

Career Level - IC4

Application Instructions

Apply directly on Oracle Careers at Network Developer 4↗.