Principal Network Developer

Oracle•Nashville, TN

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About The Position

Designs, develops, and validates advanced network systems for scalable enterprise, data center, or cloud environments, aligning solutions with existing infrastructure patterns and technical standards. The role builds automation modules, scripts, telemetry tools, dashboards, and alerting systems to improve network operations, testing, reliability, and issue resolution. It also develops test strategies and validation methods, supports compliance and deployment readiness, and contributes to network health monitoring, incident response, and root cause analysis. The position leads technical collaboration with vendors, internal teams, customers, and project/program managers; mentors junior engineers; and contributes to architecture, roadmap, and change-management decisions. It analyzes network performance and capacity data to identify improvements and forecast infrastructure needs. The role also coordinates moderately complex project work, contributes to process improvement and knowledge sharing, and participates in candidate interviews. The stated U.S. hiring range is $102,300 to $209,500 per annum. The role may be eligible for bonus and equity. Oracle offers a comprehensive benefits package, with eligibility and specific offerings subject to the conditions described in the posting.

Responsibilities

Design and develop advanced network systems for scalable enterprise, data center, or cloud environments, ensuring alignment with existing infrastructure patterns.
Validate production networks and develop scaling strategies for diverse and evolving systems or service use cases.
Participate in solution architecture discussions and provide technical guidance on network requirements, tradeoffs, and design decisions.
Identify complex risks in network design and recommend mitigations before deployment.
Collaborate with vendors and internal stakeholders on hardware, firmware, software, and cloud network code requirements.
Design playbooks for resolving common and uncommon network issues and analyze workflows to identify inefficiencies and scalable improvements.
Build advanced automation framework modules and automate high-impact network tasks across production and lab environments.
Develop and maintain scripts, dashboards, telemetry tools, and alerting systems for network operations and proactive monitoring.
Extend infrastructure pipelines, configuration management tools, and other tools to support evolving requirements and new products or services.
Design advanced testing strategies and reusable test cases, lead team-level testing practices, and improve post-incident validation methods.
Review and approve L1 and L2 network changes and present high-impact changes to change-management boards.
Drive pre-production validation and provide audit documentation and test evidence for GRC processes and deployment readiness.
Work with monitoring and SRE teams to refine dashboards, telemetry, alerting, SLO-based thresholds, and detection of network anomalies.
Lead incident response during support rotations, coordinate cross-team resolution, and deliver root cause analysis documentation.
Build tools that help frontline support teams respond to network failures and recurring operational issues.
Coordinate test and deployment milestones with project/program managers, adjusting plans to address risks and changing resources or timelines.
Mentor junior engineers, serve as a technical subject matter expert, and provide hands-on guidance on complex issues.
Lead customer engagements on technical escalations and contribute to team roadmaps and architecture decisions.
Coordinate with vendors and internal teams to resolve standards misalignment and ensure integrations meet technical and operational expectations.
Analyze latency, throughput, packet loss, and other network performance metrics to drive scalable improvements.
Forecast infrastructure needs using performance and capacity data to prepare for anticipated traffic and service growth.
Manage, delegate, prioritize, and monitor moderately complex project tasks and deliverables.
Collaborate across the organization, understand stakeholder and customer needs, and support inclusive participation.
Analyze and address moderately complex problems, document problem-solving strategies, and escalate critical or unresolved issues with proposed solutions.
Pursue ongoing learning, seek feedback and training, and coach junior team members.
Recommend and implement process improvements, solicit feedback, and evaluate the impact on stakeholders.
Participate in candidate interviews, assess candidates, and provide hiring recommendations.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
Short-term and long-term disability
Life insurance and AD&D
Supplemental life insurance for employees, spouses, and children
Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
Paid time off, including flexible or accrued vacation depending on employee eligibility and position
11 paid holidays
Paid sick leave
Paid parental leave
Adoption assistance
Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Financial planning and group legal benefits
Voluntary auto, homeowner, and pet insurance
Potential bonus and equity eligibility