Senior Network Engineer

Designs, implements, and operates resilient L3/L4 network services across data centers and cloud environments. Owns well-defined projects end-to-end with autonomy, contributes to standards, and improves reliability through automation and observability. Collaborates primarily within the immediate team and with adjacent SRE, platform, and security teams to achieve team goals with measurable impact on availability, performance, and operational efficiency. Acts as a peer mentor, apply established techniques, and propose innovative improvements that enhance existing systems and processes.Only Oracle brings together the data, infrastructure, applications, and expertise to power everything from industry innovations to life-saving care. And with AI embedded across our products and services, we help customers turn that promise into a better future for all. 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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Oracle will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to applicable law.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 onlyUS: Hiring Range in USD from: $102,300 to $209,500 per annum. May be eligible for bonus and equity.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 opinion2. Short term disability and long term disability3. Life insurance and AD&D4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match8. 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 holidays10. 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 leave12. Adoption assistance13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan14. Financial planning and group legal15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insuranceThe role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.Career Level - IC3Key ResponsibilitiesL3/L4 Network Topologies and Overlays:Design IP addressing and routing policies (BGP/OSPF/IS-IS), EVPN/VXLAN fabrics, and SDN overlays across data centers and cloud providers. Implement network segmentation, ECMP, high availability, and traffic engineering aligned to SLOs and capacity plans. Execute changes via approved change processes; validate via pre/post checks and rollback plans. Cloud Networking Implementation and Operations:Configure and manage VPC/VNet constructs, subnets, routing tables, NAT, private/secure connectivity (TGW/VCN peering, PrivateLink/Service Endpoints), and cross-cloud interconnects. Deploy and tune L4/L7 load balancing and service insertion (e.g., proxies, firewalls) to meet performance and resilience goals. Ensure consistent policy and connectivity across on-prem and cloud, leveraging standard blueprints. Network Security Controls and Compliance Guardrails:Implement segmentation (VRFs, security zones), ACLs/policies, encryption (IPsec/TLS), and DDoS/WAF integrations following zero-trust principles. Apply and maintain compliance controls and evidence (e.g., change records, rule reviews, least-privilege access) in partnership with Security/GRC. Continuously review and optimize firewall and routing policies to reduce risk and improve performance. Automation, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code:Build and maintain Terraform/Ansible (or equivalent) modules/playbooks for repeatable network provisioning and configuration drift control. Integrate network changes into CI/CD pipelines with linting, policy-as-code, unit/integration tests, and automated rollbacks. Develop scripts and APIs for inventory, validation, and orchestration to improve change velocity and reduce error rates. Monitoring, Telemetry, and SLOs:Implement and operationalize SNMP/streaming telemetry, NetFlow/IPFIX, and flow logs for health, capacity, and security visibility. Define and track SLIs/SLOs (availability, latency, packet loss) and build alerts, runbooks, and dashboards for proactive incident detection. Perform trend and capacity analyses; recommend scaling actions and optimization. Cross-Team Collaboration and Operations Excellence:Partner with SRE, platform, and security teams on architecture reviews, incident response, post-incident improvements, and capacity/performance planning. Participate in on-call rotations, execute change windows, and contribute to root-cause analysis and problem management. Document and socialize operational models, guardrails, and standards; align designs with platform roadmaps. Documentation, Reviews, and Standards:Produce high-quality design docs, diagrams, and runbooks; maintain up-to-date inventories and topology maps. Conduct and participate in design and change reviews; contribute to reference architectures, patterns, and reusable modules.Share knowledge through peer mentoring, brown-bags, and code/document reviews to uplift team proficiency. Core ResponsibilitiesPlanning & Execution:Independently manage work, monitoring timelines and deliverables to ensure projects or initiatives stay on track and meet requirements; proactively prioritize work and adapt to resource or timeline shifts, suggesting adjustments to maintain project efficiency. Collaboration & Partnership:Collaborate across teams to align on expectations and achieve shared objectives; build and maintain a comprehensive understanding of business, stakeholder, and/or customer needs to build and support effective partnerships; actively listen to diverse perspectives and ask questions to ensure understanding of others. Problem Solving:Independently identify and address standard and non-standard issues in accordance with standard practices, escalating more complex issues as appropriate; analyze data and/or information from multiple sources to troubleshoot standard and non-standard errors; contribute to knowledge sharing and best practices. Continuous Learning:Embrace continuous learning by actively seeking to build knowledge and new skills and/or tools, and staying current with industry trends and best practices; seek out and leverage feedback and training to improve skills; contribute to a culture of continuous learning and knowledge sharing with team members. Continuous Improvement:Develop ideas and recommend updates to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of processes, protocols, and workflows within a team; seek input from team members on alternative approaches and methods for improving workFull timePosting Date: 2026-08-03