Principal Network Development Engineer (US Citizenship Required)

Oracle•Nashville, TN

About The Position

Oracle Cloud advances infrastructure and cloud services through automation, scalability, and security. The IES Federal Network Engineering team delivers enterprise-grade networking and security solutions for Federal customers across U.S.-based Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and OHAI data centers. The team defines network strategy, establishes standards, and provides engineering and operational support across Federal data centers and cloud environments, including core routing and switching, firewall management and security services, advanced network fabrics, OCI cloud networking, network automation, monitoring, and hardware and software lifecycle management. The Principal Network Development Engineer helps lead Federal customer migrations to OCI. The role calls for deep network architecture expertise and extensive migration experience, with responsibility for maintaining availability, performance, and security throughout transitions. Working with engineering, architecture, operations, and automation teams, the engineer simplifies network designs, standardizes infrastructure, and reduces operational risk while helping transform traditional data center networks into cloud-native infrastructure.

Requirements

U.S. citizenship is required, as stated in the job title.
Deep network architecture expertise.
Extensive experience with network migrations.

Responsibilities

Design and develop advanced network systems for scalable enterprise, data center, or cloud environments, aligned with existing infrastructure patterns.
Validate production networks and develop scaling strategies for diverse and evolving systems and services.
Contribute technical guidance on network requirements, tradeoffs, and design decisions during solution architecture discussions.
Identify complex network design risks and recommend mitigation strategies before deployment.
Coordinate with vendors and internal stakeholders on hardware, firmware, software, and cloud network code requirements.
Create playbooks for resolving common and uncommon network issues and analyze workflows to improve performance and scalability.
Design and build automation framework modules for testing, operations, and service reliability across environments.
Automate high-impact network tasks in production and lab environments, optimize workflows, and write, maintain, and document reusable operational scripts.
Develop dashboards, telemetry tools, and alerting systems for proactive monitoring and faster issue resolution.
Extend infrastructure pipelines and configuration management tools using existing playbooks and custom logic, in line with platform standards and integration practices.
Design advanced test strategies and reusable test cases for complex network systems; lead consistent team-level testing practices.
Improve post-incident validation by incorporating break-fix outcomes and lessons learned into testing.
Review and approve L1 and L2 network changes and present high-impact changes to cross-team change management boards.
Partner with cross-functional teams on pre-production validation and ensure compliance and deployment readiness.
Prepare audit documentation and test evidence for Governance, Risk, and Compliance processes.
Work with monitoring teams to define service-level-objective-based thresholds and metrics, and improve dashboards, telemetry, and alerting.
Partner with monitoring and SRE teams to improve early detection of network anomalies and degradation.
Lead incident response during support rotations, conduct root cause analysis, and coordinate cross-team resolution of escalated issues.
Build and improve tools that help frontline support teams respond to network failures and recurring operational problems.
Coordinate test and deployment milestones with project and program managers, adapting plans to address risks and maintain alignment.
Mentor junior engineers and provide hands-on technical guidance as a subject matter expert.
Lead customer engagements for technical escalations and deliver actionable root cause analysis documentation.
Influence team roadmaps and architecture decisions and coordinate resolution of technical or operational standards misalignment.
Analyze network performance metrics, including latency, throughput, and packet loss, and drive scalable improvements.
Forecast infrastructure needs from performance and capacity data to prepare for anticipated traffic and service growth.
Manage moderately complex tasks, timelines, and deliverables; prioritize and delegate work across projects and adjust plans as resources or timelines change.
Collaborate across the organization, understand stakeholder and customer needs, and support inclusive collaboration by seeking and respecting diverse perspectives.
Analyze information to solve moderately complex problems, escalate critical unresolved issues with assessments and proposed solutions, and document problem-solving strategies.
Pursue learning and feedback, stay current on industry practices, and foster team learning through coaching and mentoring.
Recommend and help implement process improvements, gather feedback, and evaluate their impact.
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 insurance.
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 vacation, with flexible vacation for eligible salaried employees and accrued vacation for other eligible employees.
11 paid holidays.
Paid sick leave: 72 hours upon hire, refreshed each calendar year, with unused time 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.
May be eligible for bonus and equity.