**Job Description**
**Who We Are**
+ Standardization and automation is the only way to efficiently scale cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings to meet the growing needs of our customers. Codified infrastructure ensures adherence to standards, provides insight into drift detection, and guarantees consistent infrastructure and application delivery. The Platform Development and Automation Engineering team's Infrastructure-as-Code platforms empower our stakeholders to provision and maintain consistent environments across different implementations and lifecycle stages. Our frameworks enable high-velocity configuration changes at cloud scale while ensuring a verifiable, repeatable, and dependable infrastructure fleet.
+ We develop tools and systems that either directly support cloud infrastructure or empower operational teams to build and manage it. We are responsible for understanding business goals, identifying how software supports achieving them, and implementing best-of-breed solutions.
+ We focus on core principles of software development including design patterns, maintainability, reliability, and scalability. Regardless of job title or specialization, we are all software engineers first.
**Skills You Have**
**Education and Work Experience**
**This position requires you to be eligible to receive a federal security clearance which requires you to be a US Citizen.**
+ Bachelor's/Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience in a relevant field
+ Extensive experience in network automation (cloud infrastructure and/or on-premise) using Infrastructure-as-Code
+ Extensive experience in network development or application automation
+ Experience developing within a continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD) pipeline
+ Experience with orchestration engines
+ Track record of delivering assigned projects on time, using Agile and DevOps best practices
**Technical Qualifications**
+ Advanced Python development skills
+ Advanced skills in network device or cloud network configuration with a focus on automation
+ Experience with network device or operating system scripting or automation languages
+ Proficiency with data aggregation and visualization tools such as OpenSearch and Grafana
+ Proficiency with utilizing cloud native network technologies such as Virtual Cloud Networks and Network Security Groups
+ A strong understanding of network protocols (e.g., TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF)
+ Experience with operations and support processes and tools such as: Incident Management, Change Management, Ticketing Systems (JIRA, Service Desk), Service Level Agreements, Escalation processes
**Soft Skills**
+ Proactive self-starter who thrives on collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive innovative new product development
+ Strong analytical, planning, and organizational skills with an ability to manage competing demands
+ Ability to create troubleshooting guidelines and workflow instructions for others to follow
+ Ability to work independently, defining and managing one's own work while still providing transparency and accountability to management and our stakeholders
+ Respect for and willingness to work with individuals and teams located across multiple geographic locations and levels of the organization
+ Curiosity and a passion for learning
+ Aptitude for suggesting process improvements
**You are the Perfect Candidate if...**
Beyond the required knowledge, skills, and experience outlined above, you will stand out as a top candidate if you also have:
+ Experience developing network automation systems within large-scale SaaS environments
+ Proficiency in deploying and managing cloud network infrastructure using Infrastructure-as-Code
+ A background in standardizing processes across multi-vendor, multi-cloud, and heterogeneous environments
+ Hands-on experience developing complete applications in Python
+ Expertise with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
+ Experience setting up CI/CD pipelines for code testing and delivery
**Responsibilities**
**What You'll Do**
+ Design and implement automation solutions for network configuration and management including cloud and on-premises network devices (routers, switches, firewalls, etc.)
+ Develop systems to streamline network security policy approval and deployment
+ Integrate automation solutions with existing tools and platforms including change management, security approval, and data visualization
+ Develop systems to streamline security policy approval and deployment
+ Deliver highly scalable infrastructure provisioning solutions
+ Implement test-driven-development practices to create and expand platform deployment services
+ Automate complex, multi-stage configuration management workflows
+ Develop automated configuration audit tools to provide visibility into infrastructure compliance (HIPAA, PCI-DSS)
+ Implement data aggregation processes to deliver business intelligence metrics to leadership
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: $79,200 to $178,100 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 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 - IC3
**About Us**
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