Lead Principal Network Engineer - Internet Edge

Job Description

Lead Principal Network Engineer - Internet Edge

Location: Nashville, TN, or Austin, TX

Key responsibilities

• Set the technical direction and roadmap for OCI's Internet Edge, including internet transit, peering, private interconnects, internet exchanges, and connectivity to DDoS protection providers.
• Define routing policies and resilient connectivity designs that balance availability, performance, and cost across regions.
• Use traffic and performance data to guide peering, transit, and traffic engineering decisions and resolve complex routing issues.
• Plan for high-volume media workloads and other growing customer demand by forecasting traffic patterns and identifying internet connectivity and capacity needs.
• Partner with backbone and transport owners on capacity planning, edge deployments, and circuit changes.
• Lead cross-functional initiatives and technical reviews from design through rollout, managing risks associated with high-impact changes.
• Serve as an escalation point for complex incidents, improve visibility into service health, and drive lasting fixes for recurring problems.
• Advise leadership on technical and provider choices, document designs and operational practices, and mentor engineers.

Core Responsibilities

• Planning and execution: Own technical plans for complex initiatives, anticipate dependencies and delivery risks, and adjust priorities as business needs change.
• Problem solving: Lead investigations into ambiguous connectivity and routing problems and drive solutions that prevent recurrence.
• Continuous improvement: Use service and traffic data to identify opportunities to improve resilience, performance, visibility, and cost efficiency.
• Partnership: Build alignment across engineering teams and with external network and service providers when needed to deliver Internet Edge objectives.
• Technical development: Share expertise, develop other engineers, and contribute to technical reviews and hiring decisions.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities
L3/L4 Network Topologies and Overlays:
Lead multi-region architecture for IP planning and routing (BGP/OSPF/IS-IS), EVPN/VXLAN, and SDN overlays across on prem, cloud, and interconnects.
Define failure domains, TE, HA/ECMP patterns; validate via labs, failure/chaos testing, and staged rollouts across org boundaries.
Codify standards and reference designs; drive adoption beyond the immediate LOB.
Cloud Networking Implementation and Operations:
Design and operate VPC/VNet hub-and-spoke, TGW/VCN transit, PrivateLink/service endpoints, NAT, and hybrid/inter-cloud.
Engineer scalable L4/L7 load balancing and service insertion; implement blue/green and canary strategies aligned to SLOs and cost targets.
Create golden blueprints for consistent, compliant deployments across programs and regions.
Network Security Controls and Compliance Guardrails:
Architect zero-trust segmentation, ACL/policy frameworks, IPsec/TLS, and DDoS/WAF integrations; design control evidence paths.
Lead rulebase lifecycle management to reduce attack surface and technical debt; partner with Security/GRC on audits.
Embed preventative controls (policy-as-code, least privilege, change guardrails) in pipelines.
Automation, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code:
Own reusable Terraform modules and Ansible collections; enforce code quality, policy-as-code, and test gates in CI/CD.
Build validation/drift tooling and orchestration (Python/APIs); standardize source-of-truth and GitOps practices across teams.
Track and improve DORA metrics (lead time, deployment frequency, change failure rate, MTTR).
Monitoring, Telemetry, and SLOs:
Define SLIs/SLOs and architect telemetry pipelines (SNMP, streaming telemetry, NetFlow/IPFIX, flow logs) for health, capacity, and security.
Lead cross-team capacity/performance reviews; forecast growth and optimize placement/routing.
Drive problem management; eliminate repeat incidents through durable fixes.
Cross-Team Collaboration and Operations Excellence:
Lead complex change events and incidents across teams; manage risk, stakeholder comms, and post-incident actions.
Advise LOB leadership on trade-offs (reliability, cost, compliance) and vendor/technology choices.
Influence partner roadmaps and evaluate features for TCO and resiliency improvements.
Documentation, Reviews, and Standards:
Publish authoritative design docs, diagrams, runbooks, and LOB standards; ensure traceability to requirements and controls.
Run design/change reviews; capture decisions and lessons learned; evolve reference architectures and modules.
Mentor engineers through reviews, pairing, and tech talks; foster inclusive collaboration.

Core Responsibilities
Planning & Execution:
Manages and provides direction on timelines, deliverables, and budgets when applicable for critical high-impact projects or initiatives that impact the line of business, ensuring timely completion and adherence to requirements. Anticipates and plans for shifts in resources or timelines based on changing business priorities, ensuring optimal outcomes.
Collaboration & Partnership:
Influences cross-functional leaders and external stakeholders to gain alignment on strategic objectives. Fosters partnerships with key business leaders, stakeholders, and/or customers, identifying opportunities for expanding partnerships and promoting long-term organizational success. Champions transparency and inclusivity by actively seeking, listening to, and incorporating diverse perspectives.
Problem Solving:
Leads specialized, advanced problem-solving efforts, serving as an escalation point for complex issues. Guides others to leverage innovative data-driven techniques to address ambiguous or novel issues, identify root causes, and drives the implementation of solutions that prevent future issues.
Continuous Learning:
Leverages deep industry knowledge and expertise to serve as a thought leader within the organization. Contributes to the advancement of the field or industry through thought leadership (e.g., conference presentations, white papers, research contributions). Maintains and evolves expertise in relevant areas by proactively monitoring emerging trends, technologies, and industry standards, ensuring the organization remains current with best practices. Champions continuous learning and knowledge sharing, promoting professional development across teams. Applies new knowledge to drive advancement and mentors others to do the same.
Continuous Improvement:
Develops innovative solutions and drives the implementation of ideas that increase the efficiency and effectiveness of processes, protocols, and workflows across the organization. Evaluates effectiveness of updated approaches and methods for continued improvement to enhance efficiencies and ensure changes align with organizational goals. Designs and develops metrics to measure success of improvement initiatives.
Performance and Development:
Serves as a subject matter expert regarding talent needs and organizational talent strategy. Imparts leadership and expert knowledge throughout the talent development pipeline including candidate interviews, candidate assessment, and hiring decisions, ensuring alignment with organizational talent strategy.

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Qualifications

Disclaimer:

Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $146,300 to $306,400 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.
Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:
1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
2. Short term disability and long term disability
3. Life insurance and AD&D
4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
8. Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
9. 11 paid holidays
10. Paid sick leave: 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.
11. Paid parental leave
12. Adoption assistance
13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan
14. Financial planning and group legal
15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.
As part of Oracle's onboarding process and consistent with applicable law, US-based employees are required to complete identity verification, which involves the collection and processing of their biometric information. Accommodations to this requirement may be granted following an individualized assessment.

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