Sr. Network Developer Engineer

at Oracle in Springfield, Illinois, United States

Job Description

Job Description

As a Network Development Engineer on the Oracle Infrastructure Engineering Services (IES), Network Operations & Reliability Engineering team, your priorities include completing change requests, fulfilling service requests, incident response, and problem management. This role is also responsible for creating tools that facilitate change validation, verify service health, and expose performance metrics. This role will work closely to develop and support solutions for Oracle’s SaaS customers including supporting their private VPN connections. Because our team is globally distributed, on-call shift coverage is generally specific to one shift/region, but we do ask for flexibility as occasional urgent needs arise especially in the support of US Government customers.

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Career Level – IC3

Responsibilities

Leading the transformation and migration for the IES Cloud Services customers, our Cloud Networking group designs, delivers, and supports the OCI cloud infrastructure services for our hosted tenants. Ensuring Site UP is the top priority, we are laser focused on ensuring site reliability, performance, and security while leading migration efforts to the next generation cloud infrastructure. Consisting of a group of experienced Software Developers, Network Development and Network Engineers, the IES Cloud Network Engineering group is the high-octane engine powering the transformation and evolution of our Cloud based Network infrastructure

+ Active monitoring of the production environment to proactively address issues that could affect Oracle’s services in partnership with the Oracle Global Operations Center.

+ Develop methods to capture metrics that show service health.

+ Create and use pre-defined work instructions to safely deliver on change requests to the production environment.

+ Plan and execute changes to the network as needed.

+ Develop and maintain scripts and tools in Python or other languages to efficiently perform various changes to the network.

+ Automate manual processes using API’s and Python or other object oriented languages.

+ Participate in weekly on-call rotation, and occasionally on weekend coverage as a member of a globally distributed on-call team.

+ Create Postmortems and documentation of corrective actions to prevent the reoccurrence of incidents.

+ Implement, Maintain & Support Cloud based Network SaaS components according to associated SLAs/OLAs

+ Collaborate with peers and lead automation and innovation workshops for members of the extended organization.

Required Qualifications:

+ Bachelor’s Degree in technology related field or equivalent practical & demonstrated experience

+ 5+ years professional experience in supporting carrier grade, IP based ISP, Webscale, and cloud-provider network environments.

+ Demonstrated progressive increase in role specific responsibilities and associated complexities

+ Advanced level knowledge of multiple network operating systems including Cisco IOS/NX-OS, and TMOS,

+ Operational experience with internet routing protocols and concepts, including but not limited to TCP/IP, BGP, iBGP, EGP, MPLS, IS-IS, OSPF, Anycast, RHI, & Route reflection.

+ Expert level automation and DevOps type optimization experience including proficiency in a combination of Python, Ansible, Chef, Docker, TerraForm, Perl, JavaScript, JSON, REST, iControl, Bash, Yaml, XML, and iControlRest.

+ Advanced level knowledge of Layer 4-7 protocols including TCP, UDP, AH, ESP, SMB, RCP, TLS, SSL, HTTP, HTTPS, DNS, SNMP, SMTP, and SSH

+ Advanced level experience in cloud environment support of IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, & LBaaS offerings.

+ Advanced level experience in capacity management, traffic engineering, and performance optimization

Candidates must be a U.S. Citizen and complete an enhanced background screening to meet federal government requirements.

Additional preferred skills and experience:

+ 3 + years of experience performing peering, network design, customer turnup, provisioning, migration, and decommissioning

+ 1-2 + years Cloud based Network service design and management

+ Experience with Oracle Database, SQL Server, MySQL, or PLSQL

+ Experience in Traffic Management and Load balancing technologies

+ Experience supporting DNS infrastructure services

+ Experience operating in a Linux/Unix environment

+ 3+ Experience translating and managing the Incident to Problem Management workflow through a combination of process automation, defect cataloging, data warehousing, reporting and analytics.

+ Practical experience with Apex, Oracle BI, Grafana, or Power BI for system analytics and reporting

+ Experience with network system change management and release management programs.

+ Demonstrated ability to define and measure performance of Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), KPIs, Operational Level Agreements (OLAs), and Service Level Agreements (SLAs).

Disclaimer:

Certain US customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization and occupational health mandates.

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

US: Hiring Range: from $87,000 to $178,200 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 de