Senior Manager of Network Development

Oracle

About The Position

The OCI Physical Network Deployment & Scaling team is responsible for the planning, engineering, deployment, and scaling of OCI’s physical network infrastructure, enabling the rapid and sustained growth of OCI products worldwide. The team partners closely with Oracle engineering, capacity planning, and regional delivery teams to design and execute network solutions that support new region builds, new data center launches, site and capacity expansions, and decommissioning activities. Through this work, the team ensures OCI can efficiently scale its footprint across existing regions while enabling expansion into entirely new geographies. We are seeking a Senior Manager of Network Development to lead the Topology Planning team, a group focused on translating business and capacity demands into robust, scalable, and highly available network designs. This role requires a leader with deep experience in network planning and engineering, a passion for building and coaching high-performing teams, and the ability to guide designs from concept through delivery and throughout the platform lifecycle. Candidates should bring a strong operational mindset and a clear focus on reliability, quality, and customer experience. The ideal candidate will demonstrate proven people leadership, the ability to define and execute network strategy, and experience validating and improving engineering practices, design delivery, and operational processes. Given the rapid growth and complexity of the organization, this leader must be comfortable operating across large, cross-functional teams—driving technical depth where needed while also communicating clearly and effectively with senior executives to influence direction and outcomes. What are the biggest challenges for the team? The primary challenge for the team is planning and engineering network solutions that sustainably scale to support OCI’s exponential growth. This includes meeting the increasing capacity and performance demands of large-scale enterprise customers, dedicated cloud deployments, multi-cloud expansions, and continued growth across existing regions. The team is accountable for anticipating future demand and translating it into resilient, efficient, and repeatable network architectures that can scale reliably over time. In this role, you will provide technical and organizational leadership, setting the vision, direction, and long-term strategy for the team. You will build and develop a high-performing organization capable of executing that strategy, working closely with geographically distributed engineering, planning, and delivery teams. Success requires strong ownership of end-to-end planning and engineering outcomes, ensuring large-scale initiatives are delivered on time, with high quality, and aligned with OCI’s reliability, sustainability, and customer experience goals.

Requirements

Deep experience in network planning and engineering
A passion for building and coaching high-performing teams
The ability to guide designs from concept through delivery and throughout the platform lifecycle.
A strong operational mindset and a clear focus on reliability, quality, and customer experience.
Proven people leadership
The ability to define and execute network strategy
Experience validating and improving engineering practices, design delivery, and operational processes.
Comfortable operating across large, cross-functional teams—driving technical depth where needed while also communicating clearly and effectively with senior executives to influence direction and outcomes.
Accountable for anticipating future demand and translating it into resilient, efficient, and repeatable network architectures that can scale reliably over time.
Strong ownership of end-to-end planning and engineering outcomes

Responsibilities

Provide technical and organizational leadership, setting the vision, direction, and long-term strategy for the team.
Build and develop a high-performing organization capable of executing that strategy
Work closely with geographically distributed engineering, planning, and delivery teams.
Ensure large-scale initiatives are delivered on time, with high quality, and aligned with OCI’s reliability, sustainability, and customer experience goals.