About The Position
As a Senior Principal Network Reliability Engineer, you will provide technical leadership for the deployment, operation, and lifecycle management of OCI’s global network infrastructure. You will define and drive the long-term strategy for network reliability, operational excellence, and infrastructure scalability. This role involves leading complex engineering initiatives supporting AI infrastructure, new OCI Regions, backbone expansion, and large-scale network deployments. You will influence architecture and technical decisions across Network Engineering, Network Automation, Infrastructure Engineering, Product Engineering, and Operations. A key aspect of this role is championing automation by establishing engineering standards, identifying strategic opportunities, and partnering with software engineering teams to deliver scalable automation solutions. You will drive systemic improvements that eliminate recurring operational issues through engineering, architecture, automation, and process improvements. You will establish engineering standards, deployment methodologies, operational practices, and reliability metrics used across multiple organizations. Additionally, you will serve as the senior technical advisor during large-scale production events, executive escalations, and critical customer issues, and evaluate emerging technologies to influence vendor and internal technology roadmaps. You will partner with Product Management, PMO, Capacity Planning, Construction, Hardware Engineering, and Operations to successfully deliver network infrastructure at hyperscale. Mentoring senior engineers and technical leaders while fostering a culture of technical excellence, innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement is also a crucial part of this role. Leveraging AI-assisted engineering capabilities to improve technical analysis, operational planning, documentation, and engineering productivity while ensuring sound engineering judgment and technical quality is expected.
Requirements
- Expert knowledge of hyperscale cloud networking or Tier 1 service provider environments.
- Deep expertise in routing, transport, optical networking, backbone, internet connectivity, data center fabrics, and large-scale network architecture.
- Strong understanding of BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, MPLS, EVPN, VXLAN, IPv4, IPv6, DNS, DHCP, and network reliability principles.
- Experience designing and operating highly available cloud infrastructure supporting mission-critical services.
- Experience supporting AI infrastructure, GPU networking, or large-scale data center deployments.
- Experience leading large-scale network lifecycle management, deployment, and operational readiness.
- Extensive experience improving operational excellence across large-scale cloud infrastructure.
- Demonstrated success leading complex root cause analysis and implementing systemic improvements.
- Experience establishing engineering standards, deployment methodologies, and operational best practices.
- Strong understanding of service reliability, operational readiness, observability, capacity planning, and lifecycle management.
- Demonstrated success leading complex cross-organizational engineering initiatives.
- Proven ability to influence technical direction without direct organizational authority.
- Experience mentoring senior engineers and developing future technical leaders.
- Strong executive communication, stakeholder management, and presentation skills.
- Experience collaborating with Product Management, PMO, Operations, Construction, Hardware Engineering, and vendor partners.
- Demonstrated ability to shape engineering strategy, organizational priorities, and long-term technology direction.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership for the design, deployment, reliability, and operational excellence of OCI’s global network.
- Influence engineering strategy across organizations, define technical direction, establish engineering standards, and lead initiatives that improve the scalability, resilience, and operational excellence of one of the world’s largest cloud networks.
- Define long-term technical strategy for network reliability and infrastructure evolution.
- Lead architecture reviews for large-scale network and infrastructure initiatives.
- Drive standardization across deployment, operations, lifecycle management, and reliability engineering.
- Build consensus across engineering organizations to solve complex technical challenges.
- Guide automation strategy and platform evolution through technical leadership and organizational influence.
- Influence technology decisions through operational experience, architectural expertise, and data-driven engineering.
- Represent NRB in executive reviews and cross-organizational technical discussions.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
- Short term disability and long term disability
- Life insurance and AD&D
- Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
- Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
- Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
- 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
- Flexible Vacation
- 11 paid holidays
- 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
- Paid parental leave
- Adoption assistance
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Financial planning and group legal
- Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
Education Level
No Education Listed
