Network Developer 4

About the Role

The AI Infrastructure - Network Operations team at OCI supports and operates the RDMA/RoCE network fabrics for OCI's largest AI and HPC customers. These fabrics are the foundation for OCI's AI, GPU, and HPC services and support major tier-0 vendors in the generative AI industry.

About the Role

A Principal Network Engineer on our team supports the design, deployment, and operations of a large-scale global Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) environment. The primary focus is on the operation and support of RDMA/RoCE network fabrics and systems, utilizing both deep network understanding and automation skills to operate a production environment. This support spans hundreds of thousands of network devices across a global footprint, supporting millions of servers over dedicated backbone infrastructure and the Internet.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead network lifecycle management initiatives by defining technical objectives, delivery plans, and implementation procedures for large-scale network infrastructure projects.
• Translate high-level network architectures into detailed designs and deployment plans, ensuring scalability, reliability, and operational readiness.
• Serve as the technical lead for moderately complex network projects, coordinating efforts across design, deployment, automation, and operational support.
• Design, implement, and support network solutions across data center, backbone, cloud, and service provider environments.
• Partner with service owners and infrastructure teams to ensure network solutions are integrated with monitoring, observability, automation, and operational support systems.
• Act as a Tier 2 and specialized escalation point for network incidents, driving root cause analysis, corrective actions, and long-term reliability improvements.
• Lead the investigation and resolution of complex network issues and large-scale service-impacting events.
• Develop automation solutions, tools, and scripts to improve operational efficiency, network reliability, deployment consistency, and incident response.
• Contribute to the design and delivery of network automation frameworks and operational tooling.
• Collaborate closely with product teams, program managers, network leadership, and PMO organizations to align infrastructure capabilities with product and service requirements.
• Partner with vendor engineering teams and account managers to troubleshoot issues, evaluate new technologies, and drive operational improvements.
• Participate in hardware evaluations, RFQ/RFP processes, and adoption of new networking technologies and platforms.
• Drive technology decisions that support business, product, and service objectives.
• Mentor junior engineers through technical guidance, troubleshooting support, design reviews, and knowledge sharing.
• Contribute to engineering best practices, documentation standards, operational excellence, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Strong experience with large-scale network operations, design, and troubleshooting.
• Expertise in routing and switching technologies, including BGP, OSPF, EVPN-VXLAN, MPLS, and data center networking.
• Experience with network automation using Python, Ansible, APIs, or similar technologies.
• Strong understanding of observability, monitoring, telemetry, and incident management.
• Experience working with cloud infrastructure, hyperscale environments, or large-scale distributed systems.
• Ability to lead technical projects and influence outcomes across multiple teams.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Qualifications

• The "Network Developer 4" job title implies a senior level role, often referred to as a Principal Engineer.
• Ability to work effectively across engineering, operations, and leadership teams.