**Job Description**

Principal Architect, Cloud Engineering - Networking

Cloud Engineering is looking for Cloud Architects to provide guidance to our most

meaningful customers on our networking products in the context of pre-sales

engagements.

Do you possess deep technical skills in network architecture and cloud computing; as

well as customer facing skills, a passion for educating, designing, and building cloud

solutions for a diverse and challenging set of enterprise customers? If so, we hope to

meet you!

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is the next generation cloud service built from

grounds up for the most demanding application requirements with diverse

performance, reliability, and governance requirements for a variety of customer use

cases. We've focused on security, reliability, scalability and flexibility to support

existing and future enterprise level large and complex deployments while beating

industry performance and pricing standards. We are rapidly expanding our footprint

and continuously building innovative solutions!

If you are looking to be part of a highly technical team helping to establish Oracle

Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) as the leading cloud computing platform for enterprises, as

well as having a strong passion for helping customers understand network

architectures and integration approaches, this is a great opportunity to do so.

As a Solutions Architect, you will work closely with Oracle Sales, OCI product teams

and partner with teams across Oracle to craft cloud architectures that address

customer business problems and accelerate the adoption of OCI services. You will

continuously experiment on our platform, building, deploying and migrating

application solutions and use cases our customers currently use or plan to use and

create most optimal architectures and device standard methodologies. As a trusted

customer advocate, the solutions architect will help organizations understand standard

methodologies around advanced cloud-based networking solutions, and how to migrate

existing workloads to the cloud.

The ideal candidate will have a solid understanding of large-scale networking solutions and enjoys keeping the existing technical skills sharp and developing new ones.

Help shape the next generation of cloud computing and influence the adoption and

usage patterns among enterprise and web-scale customers. You should have a

demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, create technical definition

around customer objectives in complex situations, develop solution strategies,

empower and mobilize resources, and deliver results.

Basic qualifications

·The right person will possess 7+ years of network design/consulting experience

in the software or infrastructure industries and demonstrate an advance

understanding of applications, server technologies and network routing &

security.

·Have spent at least 5+ years of their career in customer facing roles with a

demonstrable record of earning trust as well as effective collaborations across

multiple internal organizations and in interactions with partners and customers.

·Expert level understanding of at least one public cloud (such as OCI, AWS,

Azure and GCP) provider is a must.

·Hands-on experience with major networking technologies including BGP, OSPF,

SD-WAN, Layer 2 and troubleshooting is required.

·Experience with major WAN connectivity options (including MPLS L3VPN,

EoMPLS, DIA, VPLS, dark fiber, dedicated circuits, etc.) and working with

global carriers offering such services is required.

·Experience with IPSec VPN, Load Balancers, DNS, NAT, WAF, SD-WAN and

CDN solutions.

·Experience with 3rd party firewall solutions from Palo Alto, Fortinet, Cisco,

Juniper and Check Point.

·Strong verbal and written communications skills. Experience writing and

publishing technical documents for a diverse audience.

·BS/MS degree required; Computer Science, Math or Engineering degree with

technical background highly desired; Advanced Degree or Cloud certifications.

Preferred qualifications

·Ability to research, test and document new technologies.

·Experience with complex network architecture tuning and performance

enhancements.

·Familiarity with common enterprise solutions from Oracle, Microsoft, VMWare,

or others.

·Networking professional certifications such as CCIE/CCNP, JNCIE/JNCIP or

others.

·Experience with Linux, network monitoring and telemetry solutions.

·Experience with automation frameworks or programing languages, such as

Terraform, Ansible, Python, Go, or others.

Certifications:

OCI Architect Associate

OCI Architect Professional

OCI Networking ProfessionalAWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional

AWS Certified Advanced Networking - SpecialtyMicrosoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104)

Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert

Microsoft Certified: Azure Network Engineer Google Cloud Certified - Professional Cloud Architect

Google Cloud Certified - Professional Cloud Network Engineer

**Responsibilities**

Roles and responsibilities

·Participate in deep architectural discussions with customers, partners and

Oracle pre-sales teams to ensure solutions are designed for successful

deployment in the cloud.

·Capture and share best-practice knowledge among the field and internal teams.

·Implement networking solutions using an over-the-shoulder guidance model,

providing real-time direction, feedback, and support to ensure effective

execution and knowledge transfer.

·Mentor and guide junior engineers through technical and professional

development.

·Lead the diagnosis and resolution of complex network connectivity and

performance issues.

·Author or contribute to customer-facing publications such as whitepapers,

blogs, videos, sample code, training materials and presentations. Present

workshops and other technical solutions to internal and external customers.

·Build strong relationships with senior technical individuals within customers to

enable them to be cloud advocates.

·Act as a technical liaison between customers and product development team.

·Help North American customers and partners migrate key workloads to OCI.

·Hands-on skills around various Cloud Services from Oracle and other Cloud

Service Providers.

·Assist customers and partners during US working hours.

·Occasionally assist customers after US working hours.

·Occasionally travel to customer locations.

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 in USD from: $113,100 to $185,100 per annum. May be eligible for equity. Eligible for commission with an estimated pay mix of 70/30.

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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