Execute production changes with pre-change checks, post-change verification, and rollback procedures.
Improve monitoring, capacity planning, runbooks, and incident response; troubleshoot issues across protocols, devices, optics, and automation.
Participate in a periodic on-call rotation, responding to large-scale network incidents and driving them to resolution.
Contribute to design reviews, develop repeatable standards, and mentor other engineers.
Required qualifications
Eight years of relevant network engineering experience; or a bachelor’s degree in a relevant technical field and four years of experience; or a master’s degree and two years of experience; or a relevant doctorate.
Strong understanding of Layer 2 through Layer 4 networking, IP addressing and subnetting, BGP, OSPF, IPv4, IPv6, TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, NAT, ECMP, and high-availability design.
Experience designing, deploying, or operating data-center, cloud, service-provider, or large-enterprise networks.
Hands-on experience automating network provisioning, configuration, validation, or operations using Python or another programming language.
Experience with Git, APIs, CI/CD workflows, automated testing, configuration modeling, or infrastructure-as-code practices.
Experience executing production network changes with appropriate risk assessment, validation, rollback, and change-management controls.
Demonstrated troubleshooting skills across network protocols, devices, automation systems, and physical infrastructure.
Experience participating in incident response, root-cause analysis, operational readiness, and continuous improvement.
Ability to work independently, manage project milestones and dependencies, and coordinate effectively with engineering and operations teams.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to produce clear technical designs, runbooks, and project updates.
Preferred qualifications
Experience building or operating hyperscale cloud, service-provider, ISP, or large-scale data-center networks.
Experience partnering with cloud networking and platform teams to integrate virtual network services with physical underlay infrastructure.
Experience with Clos or spine-leaf fabrics, EVPN/VXLAN, SDN overlays, traffic engineering, segmentation, and secure service connectivity.
Experience with Terraform, Ansible, YANG, OpenConfig, NETCONF, gNMI, or comparable model-driven networking technologies.
Experience implementing network telemetry and observability using SNMP, streaming telemetry, NetFlow/IPFIX, flow logs, dashboards, alerting, and service-level indicators.
Knowledge of network-security principles, including ACL and routing-policy management, least privilege, segmentation, MACsec, IPsec, and TLS.
Experience with commodity Ethernet platforms, optics, structured cabling, hardware qualification, and network operating-system validation.
Experience improving operational workflows through automated validation, reusable runbooks, deployment guardrails, or configuration-drift detection.
Experience using AI-assisted engineering tools to improve automation, testing, troubleshooting, documentation, or operational efficiency.
Disclaimer
Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.
Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only
US: Hiring Range in USD from: $91,400 to $187,000 per annum. May be eligible for bonus and equity.
- Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.
- Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.
Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following: 1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion 2. Short term disability and long term disability 3. Life insurance and AD&D 4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child) 5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts 6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits 7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match 8. Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation. 9. 11 paid holidays 10. Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours. 11. Paid parental leave 12. Adoption assistance 13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan 14. Financial planning and group legal 15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance
The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted. As part of Oracle's onboarding process and consistent with applicable law, US-based employees are required to complete identity verification, which involves the collection and processing of their biometric information. Accommodations to this requirement may be granted following an individualized assessment.
