Senior Network Development Engineer

Role: Senior Network Development Engineer Job level: IC3 Experience: 5 to 8 years Location: Bangalore (Hybrid) Job Description As a Network Development Engineer on the Oracle Infrastructure Engineering Services (IES), Network Operations & Reliability Engineering team, your priorities include completing change requests, fulfilling service requests, incident response, and problem management. This role is also responsible for creating tools that facilitate change validation, verify service health, and expose performance metrics. This role will work closely to develop and support solutions for Oracle’s SaaS customers including supporting their private VPN connections. Because our team is globally distributed, on-call shift coverage is generally specific to one shift/region, but we do ask for flexibility 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 including Communications, Financial Services, Health Sciences, Hospitality, Retail, Utilities, Construction and Engineering. Together, we are purposeful, industry leading experts in engineering delivering the next generation of Cloud services centered on the Autonomous Database. Network Design, Build & Lifecycle Management •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 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 Preferred Skills and Experience: •4+ years of experience in network peering, design, customer provisioning, migration, and decommissioning •1–2+ years of experience designing and managing cloud-based network services •Working knowledge of databases such as Oracle Database, SQL Server, MySQL, or PL/SQL •Hands-on experience with traffic management and load balancing technologies •Experience supporting DNS infrastructure and services •Proficiency working in Linux/Unix environments for network operations and troubleshooting •3+ years of experience managing Incident and Problem Management workflows, including automation, defect tracking, and analytics •Practical experience using Apex, Oracle BI or Grafana for analytics, metrics, and reporting •Experience with network change management and release management processes •Proven ability to define and measure Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), Operational Level Agreements (OLAs), and Service Level Agreements (SLAs) to drive continuous improvement Experience with network system change management and release management programs. Demonstrated ability to define and measure performance of Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), KPIs, Operational Level Agreements (OLAs), and Service Level Agreements (SLA) Qualifications for External Candidates Career Level - IC3