The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) team can provide you the opportunity to build and operate a suite of massive scale, integrated cloud services in a broadly distributed, multi-tenant cloud environment. OCI is committed to providing the best in cloud products that meet the needs of our customers who are tackling some of the world’s biggest challenges.

We offer unique opportunities for smart, hands-on engineers with the expertise and passion to solve difficult problems in distributed highly available services and virtualized infrastructure. At every level, our engineers have a significant technical and business impact designing and building innovative new systems to power our customer’s business critical applications.

The OCI Region Network Engineering team is building network designs and tools to support the massive growth of OCI network infrastructure. The new service team will address all aspects of network capacity delivery enablement including the physical asset lifecycle from planning and design, to delivery and, eventually, decommissioning enabling OCI to continue to grow its footprint in both existing regions and to entirely new regions. Our goal is scale up the process to be able to meet high capacity demands from our large-scale customers.

We’re looking for a Manager of Network Development for the Data Center Network Core team with expertise and passion in building teams, coaching individuals, and tackling new challenges in designing, implementing and maintaining highly available and scalable networks for managing design delivery and platform lifecycle. The candidates applying for this role should be passionate about operations and the customer experience.

What are the biggest challenges for the team?

The biggest challenges for the team are understanding a challenging domain, dealing with abstract problem statement and shaping the product. The dynamic and fast growth of the business is driving us to improve the ability of our systems to scale out and be able to meet capacity and network demands of our large scale customers

You should be responsible to provide leadership, direction, and strategy to the team, establish and develop the team to meet and execute the strategy, working with geographically distributed teams, and contributing to the success of your team and other related teams. We expect you to deliver large-scale projects on time with high quality.

Required Qualifications 

• MS or BS in Computer Science, Network/Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 3 years of experience managing network engineering teams.
• 6 years of large-scale network engineering experience.
• Experience delivering and operating large-scale, highly available distributed networks.
• Ability to work in a collaborative, cross-functional team environment.
• Solid understanding of key networking technologies needed for the cloud including: network design and fabrics, networking protocols, network automation, network telemetry and common hardware platforms.
• Understand the end-to-end configuration, technical dependencies, and overall behavioral characteristics of production services.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, analytical skills, and project management skills
• Understanding of service metrics and alarms through the development of dashboards, service KPIs, alarming systems.
• Experience working in an operational environment with mission-critical tier-one services with associated pager duty.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading teams developing services on a public cloud platform (e.g., AWS, Azure, Oracle)
• Building teams and organizations in a v1 product development setting
• Experience working with external customers and translating requests into prioritized work or features
• Experience working with Data Center Infrastructure Management systems and tools.
• Experience using Kubernetes in CICD environments.

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