Senior Network Developer - Network Region Build (NRB)
About The Position
The Senior Network Developer on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s Network Region Build (NRB) team leads network expansion, automation, and deployment initiatives in collaboration with engineering, automation, hardware, and operations teams. The team deploys greenfield infrastructure, establishes connectivity for new OCI regions and child sites, and builds and manages data center fabrics, edge networks, backbone, fiber metro networks, and multi-cloud connectivity. It also supports network and server rack additions, decommissions, capacity expansions, and 24x7 operations during build phases. The role designs, deploys, validates, and operates large-scale global cloud networks, supporting network lifecycle builds and upgrades across a global infrastructure of network devices and connected servers. The engineer contributes to architecture and solution design, automation and scripting, testing and quality assurance, monitoring and reliability, performance and capacity management, and operational support. Responsibilities include technical leadership, mentoring, roadmap contributions, runbook and procedure development, break-fix and escalation support, root cause analysis, vendor collaboration, and firmware and operating-system qualification. The position requires approximately 25% travel, typically at least once per month to OCI data centers, including Abilene, Texas, and other major AI deployment locations.
Requirements
- Experience in a large ISP or cloud provider environment.
- Hands-on exposure to commodity Ethernet hardware, including Broadcom or Mellanox.
- Deep knowledge of routing and transport protocols, including BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, TCP, IPv4, IPv6, DNS, DHCP, and MPLS.
- Experience with Internet peering, inter-domain networking, and VPN/SSL technologies.
- Proficiency in scripting and automation; Python is preferred.
- Experience with data center design.
- Familiarity with automation frameworks, network modeling technologies such as YANG and OpenConfig, NETCONF, and telemetry systems.
- Strong understanding of network security design, system performance testing, and operational monitoring.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence product direction and priorities.
Responsibilities
- Participate in network lifecycle management through build and upgrade projects.
- Collaborate with program and project managers to define milestones and deliverables and keep projects aligned and on schedule.
- Execute network changes using existing procedures and tools, and develop new procedures as needed.
- Serve as a technical lead on team projects, contribute to roadmap development, create runbooks and methods of procedure, and mentor junior engineers.
- Participate in network solution and architecture design, development, validation, and risk assessment for large-scale network fabrics and systems.
- Design scaling strategies and validate production networks for varied use cases.
- Collaborate with vendors and internal teams to ensure hardware, firmware, software, and network code meet requirements; qualify new firmware and operating systems and help influence product roadmaps.
- Develop automation modules, frameworks, scripts, tooling, dashboards, telemetry, alerting, and pipelines to automate network testing, operations, and routine support tasks.
- Develop standalone test cases and strategies, lead test practices, conduct L1 network change reviews, and present changes to review boards.
- Conduct pre-production testing and provide audit documentation and evidence for Governance, Risk, and Compliance requirements.
- Participate in operational support rotations, provide break-fix and escalation support, and guide incident response and root cause investigations.
- Lead post-event root cause analysis and remediation, improve break-fix validation, and integrate lessons learned into team practices.
- Monitor network health and service objectives using dashboards, telemetry, alerting, and monitoring-team tools; provide feedback to improve anomaly detection and diagnosis.
- Develop tools and solutions for frontline support teams responding to network failures.
- Engage with customers to clarify technical issues and contribute to root cause analysis documentation.
- Analyze latency, throughput, packet loss, capacity, security, and performance metrics to identify issues and plan network scaling.
- Troubleshoot cable, trunk, and optics issues, including structured cabling systems.
- Collaborate across teams and vendors to align on networking standards, customer and stakeholder needs, and shared objectives.
- Independently manage work, identify and resolve issues, contribute to knowledge sharing, and recommend improvements to processes and workflows.
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 and eligible family members.
- 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.
- Paid parental leave.
- Adoption assistance.
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
- Financial planning and group legal benefits.
- Voluntary auto, homeowner, and pet insurance.
- The role may be eligible for bonus and equity.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
