Principal Network Engineer

Job Description

We are the AI Infrastructure - Network Operations team at OCI. We support and operate the RDMA/RoCE network fabrics for OCI's largest AI and HPC customers. These fabrics are the foundation underneath OCI's AI, GPU and HPC services, and support major tier-0 vendors in the generative AI industry. If you're running an AI workload at OCI, we're running the RDMA network underneath your workload.

A Principal Network Engineer on our team supports the design, deployment, and operations of a large-scale global Oracle cloud computing environment (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - OCI). Primarily focused on operation and support of RDMA/RoCE network fabrics and systems, through a combination of a deep network understanding and automation skills to operate a production environment. As OCI is a cloud-based network with a global footprint, this support will include hundreds of thousands of network devices supporting millions of servers, connected over a mix of dedicated backbone infrastructure and the Internet.

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 while ensuring scalability, reliability, and operational readiness.
• Serve as the technical lead for moderately complex network projects, coordinating the efforts of multiple engineers 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 fully 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.

Preferred Skills

• 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 with the ability to work effectively across engineering, operations, and leadership teams.

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: $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 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.
Career Level - IC4

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