Senior Cloud Network Architect

Job DescriptionAs a Network Development Engineer, your priorities include completing change requests, fulfilling service requests, incident response, and problem management.This role is responsible for creating tools that facilitate change validation, verify service health, and expose performance metrics.It will work closely to develop and support solutions for Oracle's SaaS customers including supporting their private VPN connections.The team is globally distributed, on-call shift coverage is generally specific to one shift/region, but flexibility is required as occasional urgent needs arise.Organizational Overview:Oracle Cloud continues innovative breakthroughs providing Autonomous Database and services to an ever-increasing customer base.Oracle's Global Business Unit Cloud Services group is an industry leader focused innovation, service delivery, and migration of traditional, on-premises workloads to the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.Our customer base includes fortune 500 and industry leaders across a variety of sectors.We are purposeful, industry leading experts in engineering delivering the next generation of Cloud services centered on the Autonomous Database. Key Responsibilities:Participate in the design and architecture of network solutions, contributing to development of standalone features and enhancements.Lead and support network build, upgrade, and migration projects as part of the IES Cloud Services transformation to OCI infrastructure.Implement, maintain, and support cloud-based Network SaaS components in alignment with SLAs/OLAs.Collaborate with program and project managers to define milestones, deliverables, and execution plans.Create and maintain runbooks, methods of procedure (MOPs), and documentation for network changes and operations. Operations & Reliability:Ensure site reliability, performance, and security, maintaining 'Site UP' as the highest operational priority.Actively monitor the production environment with the Global Operations Center to proactively detect and resolve issues.Provide break-fix support during network events, act as an escalation point, and lead root cause analysis and postmortem documentation.Participate in on-call rotations, including weekend or global coverage as required.Develop and capture network service health metrics to monitor and report on service performance. Automation & Tool Development:Develop and maintain automation scripts and tools (Python or other object-oriented languages) to streamline network operations.Automate manual processes using APIs and automation frameworks to improve operational efficiency.Coordinate with network automation services teams to design and integrate support tooling.Serve as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) on network automation and software development initiatives. Collaboration & Continuous Improvement:Work closely with network vendor technical teams and internal QA to drive bug resolution and firmware/software validation.Partner with cross-functional teams to drive innovation and process improvement.Lead and participate in automation and innovation workshops to enhance organizational capabilities.Mentor and guide junior engineers, promoting skill development in automation, troubleshooting, and network design. Required Skills and Qualifications:Bachelor's degree in a technology-related field or equivalent hands-on experience in large-scale network environments.4+ years of professional experience supporting carrier-grade, IP-based ISP, web-scale, on-premises datacenter, and cloud-provider network infrastructures.Proven record of progressive responsibility and technical growth in network engineering roles.Advanced-level expertise with multiple network operating systems, including Cisco IOS, NX-OS, and TMOS.Strong operational knowledge of internet routing protocols and core networking concepts, including TCP/IP, BGP, iBGP, EGP, MPLS, IS-IS, OSPF, Anycast, RHI, and route reflection.Proficiency in network automation and DevOps practices, with experience using tools and languages such as Python, Ansible, Chef, Docker, Terraform, Perl, JavaScript, JSON, REST, iControl, Bash, YAML, XML, and iControlRest.Advanced knowledge of firewall technologies, such as Cisco ASA and Palo Alto.Deep understanding of Layer 4–7 protocols, including TCP, UDP, AH, ESP, SMB, RCP, TLS, SSL, HTTP/HTTPS, DNS, SNMP, SMTP, and SSH.Experience supporting cloud environments across IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, and LBaaS offerings.Advanced experience in capacity planning, traffic engineering, and performance optimization for large-scale networks.