Principal Network Developer - Regional Network Reliability

Oracle•Nashville, TN

2d•$102,300 - $209,500

About The Position

Oracle is hiring a Principal Network Developer for Regional Network Reliability in Nashville, Tennessee. The role designs, develops, validates, and scales large data-center, enterprise, and cloud network fabrics, including leaf-spine and multi-fabric CLOS architectures. It covers Ethernet switching, routing, network segmentation, production and out-of-band network architectures, and networking for AI/HPC/GPU clusters. The position also contributes technical guidance to architecture decisions, evaluates design risks, coordinates with vendors and internal teams, and develops operational playbooks and workflow improvements. The role builds and extends network automation, scripts, infrastructure pipelines, telemetry, dashboards, and alerting solutions for production and lab environments. It leads or contributes to test strategy and execution, change reviews, pre-production validation, post-incident testing, and audit evidence for governance, risk, compliance, security, and policy requirements. The Principal Network Developer partners with monitoring and SRE teams to define network-health metrics and service-level objectives, improve anomaly detection, and support incident response and root-cause analysis. The role mentors junior engineers, advises on technical escalations, contributes to roadmap and architecture decisions, coordinates project milestones, and analyzes performance and capacity to prepare infrastructure for anticipated growth. Minimum qualifications include either 8 years of relevant experience; a bachelor’s degree in a related field and 4 years of relevant experience; or a master’s degree in a related field and 2 years of relevant experience. Preferred qualifications include additional experience or a doctorate with relevant experience, and an OCI or AWS associate certification within 6 months of hire. The stated U.S. hiring range is $102,300 to $209,500 per annum, and the role may be eligible for bonus and equity.

Requirements

Deep experience designing large-scale leaf-spine and multi-fabric data-center networks, including CLOS architecture.
Hands-on expertise with Ethernet switching, BGP, EVPN/VXLAN, IP addressing, routing scale, ECMP, QoS, and network segmentation.
Strong knowledge of management, out-of-band, console-server, and production data-center network architectures.
Experience with network operating systems and hardware such as Arista EOS, Cisco Nexus/NX-OS, NVIDIA Spectrum/Cumulus, or comparable platforms.
Experience designing or operating AI/HPC/GPU cluster networking, including RDMA/RoCE, lossless Ethernet, and high-bandwidth fabrics.
Experience with network telemetry and observability, including gNMI, streaming telemetry, SNMP, syslog, inventory/CMDB integration, and monitoring systems.
Experience leading firmware lifecycle management, configuration standardization, vulnerability remediation, and network change governance.
Strong incident-management and root-cause-analysis skills.
Ability to communicate technical architecture and tradeoffs to engineering, operations, leadership, and customers.
Experience with network automation using Python, Ansible, Terraform, APIs, Git, and CI/CD.
Experience with capacity planning, hardware-resource and TCAM analysis, and large-scale routing-table design.
Ability to partner with network automation teams on network modeling and configuration rendering, review configuration differences, and mitigate switch configuration issues.
Minimum experience: 8 years in network engineering, electrical engineering, cloud programming, or networking research and development; or a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Hardware Engineering, or a related field plus 4 years of such experience; or a related master’s degree plus 2 years of such experience.
Demonstrated ability or knowledge in cloud architecture, including designing scalable, reliable, and performant cloud services.
Demonstrated experience securing enterprise networks with modern security controls and monitoring tools.
Demonstrated ability or knowledge in vendor management, including vendor communication, service-level monitoring, and issue resolution.

Nice To Haves

Preferred experience: 9 years in a relevant field; or a bachelor’s degree in a related field plus 5 years of relevant experience; or a master’s degree in a related field plus 3 years; or a doctorate in a related field plus 1 year.
OCI or AWS certification at the associate level within 6 months of hire.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, validate, and scale advanced network fabrics and systems for enterprise, data-center, and cloud environments.
Lead firmware upgrades, configuration refreshes, feature rollouts, vulnerability remediation, and controlled network changes in collaboration with operations and deployment teams.
Participate in network solution architecture and design validation, advising on requirements, tradeoffs, and design decisions.
Identify network design and deployment risks and recommend mitigation strategies.
Coordinate with vendors and internal stakeholders on hardware, firmware, software, cloud network code, and networking standards.
Develop playbooks for investigating and resolving network issues and analyze workflows for performance and efficiency improvements.
Design and build automation modules and frameworks for testing, operations, and service reliability across environments.
Automate high-impact network tasks in production and lab environments and streamline repetitive, cross-team workflows.
Develop and maintain scripts, infrastructure pipelines, configuration-management tools, dashboards, telemetry systems, and alerting mechanisms.
Plan capacity, analyze hardware resources and TCAM, and design large-scale routing tables.
Develop test strategies and reusable cases; lead testing practices and pre-production validation across environments.
Review network changes, present high-impact changes to change-management boards, and help ensure risks are understood and mitigated.
Improve post-incident validation and incorporate break-fix outcomes and lessons learned into testing.
Prepare audit documentation and test evidence for Governance, Risk, and Compliance processes.
Work with monitoring and SRE teams to define network-health metrics, thresholds, and service-level objectives and improve anomaly detection.
Lead or participate in support rotations, incident response, root-cause investigations, and cross-team resolution of escalated issues.
Build tools that help frontline support teams respond efficiently to network failures and recurring operational problems.
Coordinate project and deployment milestones with project or program managers, prioritizing work and adapting plans as needed.
Mentor junior engineers and provide subject-matter expertise and hands-on technical guidance.
Engage with customers on technical escalations and deliver or contribute to root-cause-analysis documentation.
Contribute to team roadmaps and architecture decisions and coordinate resolutions to standards misalignment.
Analyze latency, throughput, packet loss, and other service metrics to identify inefficiencies and drive scalable improvements.
Forecast infrastructure needs using performance and capacity data.
Participate in candidate interviews, assess candidates, and provide hiring recommendations.
Pursue continuous learning, share knowledge, seek feedback, and contribute to process improvements.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion.
Short-term and long-term disability insurance.
Life insurance and AD&D, with supplemental life insurance options for employees and their spouses or children.
Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts.
Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits.
401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match.
Flexible or accrued vacation, depending on employee eligibility and position.
11 paid holidays.
Paid sick leave: 72 hours upon hire, refreshed annually, with unused balances carrying over up to a 112-hour cap.
Paid parental leave.
Adoption assistance.
Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
Financial planning and group legal benefits.
Voluntary auto, homeowner, and pet insurance.
Potential eligibility for bonus and equity.