Cloud Engineering Infrastructure Development

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is building a next generation Infrastructure-as-a-Service that supports the most demanding critically important customer requirements, and operates at cloud scale to provide a secure, distributed, and multi-tenant cloud environment. This role will be located in the Bay Area, California or Oracle's downtown Seattle Offices. Especially strong candidates able to work elsewhere in the United States may be considered. Candidates with fluency in Spanish or Japanese should note this on their resume, but this is optional.

As a Solutions Architect embedded in the OCI Networking product management team, you will work closely with development and product managers to help define the vision and customer experience of OCI Networking products and services. You will work with internal customers, business partners, sales teams, and directly with customers as an enthusiast for OCI Networking. You will have direct contact with customer leadership, up to the executive level.

As a technical-business liaison, you will be responsible for redefining business problems into actionable networking products and solutions. You will build collateral representing your ideas, including blogs, tech notes, diagrams, presentations, and sample code. You are just as comfortable defining solutions and vision as you are willing to roll up your sleeves and become directly involved when necessary.

The ideal candidate will also have a proven history of optimally transferring technical ideas into collateral within the public domain. We encourage you to include references to public blogs, videos, conferences, documentation, and any open source code samples in your application.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Proven experience in architecting, deploying and management of solutions. Experience working directly in customer implementations is highly desirable.
• Able to accommodate occasional business travel 0-10% of the time.'
• Expertise in IaaS and cloud native application architectures.
• Strong verbal and written communications skills. Demonstrated capability to represent Oracle in pre and post sales conversations with customers up to the executive level.
• Strong understanding of IP Networking, routing, security, from L1-L7.
• Experience with automation and solving customer adoption barriers through languages with as Python, Go, or others.
• Familiar with Software Development methodologies and API design.
• Possess 10 years of IT development or implementation/consulting experience in the software or infrastructure industries and demonstrate an intermediate understanding of applications, server technology, networking and security.
• The successful candidate will have spent at least 5 years of their career in customer facing roles with a proven record of earning trust as well as effective collaborations across multiple internal organizations and in interactions with partner and customers.
• BS/MS degree required; Computer Science, Math or Engineering degree with Technical background highly desired; Advanced Degree a plus.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Prior Software Defined Networking Experience in virtualization environments and container networking.
• Understand web technologies like CDN, HTTP, and Javascript.
• Experience with networking protocols like DNS, BGP, and IPv6.
• Experience migrating or transforming customer solutions to the cloud.
• Familiarity with common enterprise solutions (i.e., Oracle, Microsoft, SAP, VMWare, etc.)
• Experience with other cloud platform including AWS, Azure or Google Compute Platform is a plus.
• Experience with programming or scripting languages is a plus.