Please note this role will require eligibility for UK government security clearance (UK nationality, permanent residence in UK)

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Network Services Group

The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) team can provide you the opportunity to build and support 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, building and supporting innovative new systems to power our customer’s business critical applications

We are looking for Network Development/Support Engineers to build and support services that comprehensively model, provision, secure, scale and operate OCI networks. Network engineers will use the network automation to represent arbitrarily complex datacenter networks and subsequently build, interconnect and scale these networks. Network Operations will be able to centrally administer OCI's networks and automate responses to common operational problems using the network automation API. OCI service teams will be able to augment the rich data provided by the network automation to enable new scenarios. The primary focus of this individual will be on supporting the network infrastructure of our UK hosted cloud environments.

Mandatory Qualifications:

· Eligible for UK Government Security Clearance.

· University degree in computer science or electrical engineering and/or 5 years equivalent network engineering experience.

· Experience working in a network operations role and in-depth network troubleshooting.

· Hands on experience supporting the following platforms in an enterprise level environment/ISP

· Cisco ASA & Nexus platforms

· Juniper Firewalls and Routers

· Hands on experience supporting the following technologies in an enterprise level environment/ISP

· BGP, OSPF and other internal routing protocols

· MPLS, Dedicated circuits, Dark Fiber

· TCP/IP, DNS

· Extensive experience with scripting or automation – Python preferred.

· Experience with network monitoring and telemetry solutions.

· Excellent organizational, verbal, and written communication skills.

· Ability to participate in an on-call rotation.

. Experience of working in a DevOps methodology

. Familiar with VCS tools like git, bitbucket for code and configuration management

Desired skills:

· Experience working in a large ISP, enterprise network, or cloud provider environment.

· Experience working with python for network automation and network configuration management.

· Experience with governance, risk, compliance, and security matters including collaborating with internal and external parties during audits and other compliance related activities.

· Experience with Agile Project Management.

· Familiarity with network vendor interactions.

· F5 LTM/GTM

· IPSeC VPNs

· Certifications in Cisco CCNP, CCIE, Juniper JNCIP¬SP, CCISP, or other data communication certifications.

· Knowledge of Linux and Windows networking

. Experience of CICD pipelines

Work with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team on the shared full stack ownership of a collection of services and/or technology areas. Understand the end-to-end configuration, technical dependencies, and overall behavioral characteristics of production services. Responsible for the design and delivery of the mission critical stack, with focus on security, resiliency, scale, and performance. Authority for end-to-end performance and operability. Partner with development teams in defining and implementing improvements in service architecture. Articulate technical characteristics of services and technology areas and guide Development Teams to engineer and add premier capabilities to the Oracle Cloud service portfolio. Understand and communicate the scale, capacity, security, performance attributes, and requirements of the service and technology stack. Demonstrate clear understanding of automation and orchestration principles. Act as ultimate escalation point for complex or critical issues that have not yet been documented as Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs). Utilize a deep understanding of service topology and their dependencies required to troubleshoot issues and define mitigations. Understand and explain the affect of product architecture decisions on distributed systems. Professional curiosity and a desire to a develop deep understanding of services and technologies.

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