Cloud Network Architect

Preferred Qualifications
- An IaaS Principal Cloud Architect, Networking is expected to possess strong Networking and consulting skills and contribute to the physical/logical infrastructure architecture design, review and implementation of Projects.

This job requires the ability to work in a flexible schedule up to midnight India time to overlap with the US Cloud Engineering team. Normal working hours are 2pm – 11pm.

Responsibilities:

• Design/Develop & Implement Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) per end-user requirement/specs.
• Automate common infrastructure tasks / customer requests by using Python, shell scripting or other cloud tooling.
• Develop reusable Intellectual Property (IP) for the Cloud Engineering Delivery organization to help drive delivery efficiency and customer value.
• Provide architectural oversight & support for new implementations, upgrades, and migrations on/to Oracle cloud infrastructure.
• Effective collaboration with infrastructure teams, application development teams, testing and release teams
• Mentor junior IaaS resources to expand the team's capacity and establish consistency among delivery consultants
• Identify and quickly escalate potential issues with solution design, packaged software, client resources, or anything else that impacts your ability to deliver according to expectations.

Accountabilities:

• Be a trusted technical advisor to customers and solve complex Cloud Infrastructure and Networking challenges.

• Create and deliver best practices recommendations, tutorials, blog articles, sample code, and technical presentations adapting to different levels of key business and technical stakeholders

Required Knowledge & skills:

• 10+ years of work experience in any combination of engineering, and consulting with any Hyperscaler, with increasing responsibilities, and with a special focus on Network design & implementation along with infrastructure design and automation.
• Hands on skills with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) or solutions from other providers, such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure etc. would be of required, especially with PaaS and IaaS.
• Ability to create, update, understand architecture diagrams based on end-user specs & implement the same.
• Experience with physical networking, understanding routing (expertise on BGP), firewalls, WAF, Network accelerators, CDN, Load balancers & SSL Certificates.
• Experience in deploying Firewalls, Load balancers and routers as a Virtual appliance in cloud infrastructure.
• In depth knowledge of various cloud & on-premise networking components including connectivity between clouds / on-prem to cloud.
• Good understanding of IaaS Compute and operating systems, and compute migration methodologies and implementation techniques.
• Hands-on working knowledge of Terraform / Ansible & Python
• Team player with strong interpersonal and excellent communication skills
• Strong consulting skills to work in a professional manner with customer IT and business users.

Desired Skills:

• Experience in designing & implementing complex Hybrid Architectures that span across on-Prem, and Cloud (including multi-cloud).
• Experience in integrating Clouds with third-party tools such as Splunk, QRadar, Sumo Logic, Datadog, Grafana etc. for Log Analytics / flow logs and other services.
• Experience migrating workloads from on-premises into Cloud, or between Clouds.
• Strong knowledge of networking that includes:
• Cloud Network Design & multi-cloud network design.
• Implementation of VPN, and enterprise network equipment routers, firewalls, and switches.
• Experience with physical networking, understanding routing (expertise on BGP), firewalls, WAF, Network accelerators, CDN, Load balancers & SSL Certificates.
• Experience in deploying Firewalls, Load balancers and routers as a Virtual appliances in cloud infrastructure.
• Analysis of cloud strategies, design and development of tools for Oracle products deployment in OCI.
• Proven ability in performing rapid assessments of clients' internal technology landscape and targeting use cases and deployments for Oracle Cloud technology.
• OCI knowledge/ certification is preferred.
• Experience with Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD pipelines / DevOps code-first methodology is highly desirable.
• Team player with strong interpersonal and excellent communication skills
• Strong consulting skills to work in a professional manner with customer IT and business users.