Software Development Snr Manager

Job Description
The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) team can provide you the opportunity to build and operate a suite of extensive scale, integrated cloud services in a broadly distributed, multi-tenant cloud environment. OCI is committed to providing the best in cloud products that meet the needs of our partners who are tackling some of the world's biggest challenges.

We offer unique opportunities for inquisitive, hands-on engineers with the expertise and passion to solve difficult problems in distributed, highly available services and virtualized infrastructure. At every level, our engineers have a significant technical and business impact deploying and scaling innovative new systems to power our customers' business-critical applications.

The OCI Network Scaling team is deploys and scales network designs with our tools to support the massive growth of OCI network infrastructure. The team partners with Oracle teams to support the capacity of existing regions, deploys new infrastructure, site expansions, capacity expansions, and decommissioning, enabling OCI to continue to grow its footprint in both existing regions and to entirely new regions.

We're looking for a Senior Manager of Network Development for the Network Scaling team with expertise and passion in building teams, coaching individuals, and tackling new challenges in designing, implementing and maintaining highly available and scalable networks for managing design delivery and platform lifecycle. The candidates applying for this role should be passionate about operations and the customer experience.

This leader will have experience with direct leadership, ability to formulate strategy, assist in validating and improving engineering functions, delivery of services and process improvement. With the rapid growth of our organization, the leader should be comfortable operating in large, complex teams with the skills for driving details, but also up-level communication for senior executives.

What are the biggest challenges for the team?

The biggest challenges for the team is scaling the business to support our exponential growth to meet capacity and network demands of our large scale customers, dedicated cloud customers and existing customer growth.

You should be responsible to provide leadership, direction, and strategy to the team, establish and develop the team to meet and implement the strategy, working with geographically distributed teams, and contributing to the success of your team and other related teams. We expect you to deliver large-scale projects on time with high quality.

Career Level - M3

Responsibilities
In this role you will:

• Operate as a leader within Networking; hire, develop people, manage performance, drive teams to produce needed guidance to feed our short- and long- term group needs
• Supports the deployment, scaling, and operations of a large-scale global Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Primarily focused on the development and support of network fabric and systems through a combination of a deep understanding of protocol-level networking and programming skills. 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, CLOS Network, and the Internet.

Responsibilities:

• Own and develop highly available delivery plans
• Lead deployment, scaling and automation of programs across the physical network
• Attract, develop & manage a team of highly skilled engineers.
• Define and develop roadmaps to deliver engineering and operational efficiencies.
• Develop, grow, and maintain data-driven metric programs that speak to both the operational and business status of the services owned within the physical networking domain.
• Solve difficult problems in distributed systems, infrastructure, and highly available services.
• Collaborate with Program Management, Acquisition, DataCenter (Design, Build and Operations teams), Network Engineering, Network Availability, Network Automation, Network Monitoring, and GNOC operations.
• Support building and scaling organizations to deliver a highly available service to our customers.
• Participate in on-call rotation for managers.
• Manage both technical and non-technical projects.

Required Qualifications:

• Thorough understanding of process development, network technologies, including network design and fabrics, networking protocols, network automation, network telemetry and common hardware platforms.
• Participate in on call rotation for incident management.
• Direct knowledge of cloud infrastructure and management.
• Line management experience (direct reports); demonstrated ability to lead organization planning, hiring, performance management.
• Demonstrated ability to work with cross-functional teams, dive deep, and communicate key metrics to senior management in a timely manner.
• Record of meeting deadlines while managing multiple projects in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment.
• Critical attention to detail.
• Manage both technical and non-technical projects.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 10+ years experience delivering and operating large scale, highly available network environments (large cloud, ISP, or service provider)
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Telecommunications, or related field
• Experience in data center and/or service provider network environments, with a focus on operations
• Understanding of networking technologies and protocols (TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF, MPLS, etc.)
• Strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis experience
• Experience managing software development project a plus (but not required)

Qualifications
Career Level - M3

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