Oracle Corporation

Director, Network Engineering

Oracle Corporation$146K — $306K *
Telecommunications & Hardware
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in network engineering and strategy development
  • Proven expertise in L3/L4 network architecture and cloud connectivity
  • Strong leadership skills with experience managing cross-functional teams
  • Experience with network security frameworks and compliance protocols
  • Familiarity with automation tools, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code best practices
  • Ability to manage budgets and set strategic objectives effectively

Responsibilities

  • Define long-term architecture roadmap for networking components
  • Lead modernization programs and ensure implementation of standards
  • Standardize cloud networking topologies and optimize load balancing
  • Drive zero-trust security measures and enhance risk management
  • Institutionalize code and automation best practices across teams
  • Set policies for telemetry and capacity management and review performance
  • Coordinate cross-team incident responses and influence standard adoption

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Short and long-term disability coverage
  • Life insurance including supplemental options
  • Flexible Spending Accounts for healthcare and dependent care
  • 401(k) Savings Plan with company matching
  • Flexible paid time off policy and holiday leave
  • Paid parental leave and adoption assistance
Full Job Description
Job Description

Provide leadership for one or more Network Engineering teams or a small group delivering hyperscale L3/L4 networking and cloud connectivity. Define tactical and strategic plans, drive significant cross-group improvements in reliability, security, and cost efficiency, and communicate progress and risks to leadership. Manage elements of the budget and are accountable for meeting budget targets across the teams you lead. May have a mixed team of Network Engineers and Network Hardware Engineers, coordinating the physical network platform lifecycle (planning, sourcing, qualifying, sustaining routers/switches, optics/OLS, timing, cabling) to ensure interoperable, cost- and power-efficient components that enable reliable, secure, and compliant services at scale

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities
L3/L4 Network Topologies and Overlays:
• Defines multi-quarter architecture roadmap for DC fabrics, routing policy, IPv6 strategy, failure domains, and traffic engineering across regions.
• Leads cross-team design reviews and modernization programs (e.g., EVPN/VXLAN/SDN upgrades); enforces MOP/rollback and verification standards.
Cloud Networking Implementation and Operations:
• Standardizes VPC/VCN topologies, transit/peering, PrivateLink/service endpoints, NAT, and inter-/multi-cloud connectivity.
• Optimizes L4/L7 load balancing and service-insertion at scale; enforces cost/SLO guardrails and capacity alignment.
Network Security Controls and Compliance Guardrails:
• Embeds zero-trust-aligned segmentation and policy frameworks; drives rulebase lifecycle and tech-debt reduction.
• Leads audit readiness and risk reduction programs with Security/GRC; implements policy-as-code and preventative controls.
Automation, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code:
• Institutionalizes IaC modules/collections and GitOps; mandates code reviews, policy-as-code, testing, and safe deployment patterns (canary/auto-rollback).
• Sponsors platform/tooling investments; tracks and improves DORA metrics across teams.
Monitoring, Telemetry, and SLOs:
• Sets SLI/SLO policy for the group; ensures telemetry pipelines (SNMP/streaming, NetFlow/IPFIX, flow logs) support reliability, capacity, and security analytics.
• Chairs capacity/performance reviews; directs right-sizing, routing optimization, and placement decisions.
Cross-Team Collaboration and Operations Excellence:
• Leads cross-group incident response and complex changes; coordinates executive updates on high-importance matters.
• Influences adoption of standards across adjacent orgs; negotiates with vendors and partners within budget authority.
Documentation, Reviews, and Standards:
• Publishes group-level standards, reference architectures, and runbooks; ensures traceability to requirements and controls.
• Operates design/change councils across teams; drives consistent documentation quality and version control.

Core Responsibilities
Planning & Execution:
-Oversees and guides multiple teams on managing complex projects or initiatives, monitoring timelines, deliverables, and budgets when applicable to ensure strategic objectives are met. Serves as a role model for appropriately delegating work, setting priorities, and ensuring alignment with business needs. Coaches others on adjusting resources or project timelines in anticipation of business changes.
Collaboration & Partnership:
-Role models leading cross-functional collaborative efforts to ensure alignment of expectations and strategic objectives. Empowers team to build and maintain partnerships with business leaders, stakeholders, and/or customers to address barriers and contribute to organizational success. Drives transparency and inclusivity by modeling actively seeking, listening to, and leveraging diverse perspectives.
Problem Solving:
-Shares problem-solving strategies across teams, providing oversight on complex operational and/or technical issues, as needed. Coaches teams on analyzing highly complex data and/or information to identify solutions to ambiguous issues, and provides direction on identifying root causes to prevent recurrence of issues.
Continuous Learning:
-Pursues strategic learning opportunities to maintain expertise and apply best practices at the organizational level. Creates opportunities for team members and leaders to build their expertise in new areas, coaching them to build innovative skills. Identifies skill gap trends across the organization, and upholds a culture that places significant emphasis on sharing knowledge and pursuing learning opportunities that advance the organization. Evaluates efficiency of learning strategies and recommends adjustments as needed.
Continuous Improvement:
-Empowers team to own the development and implementation of ideas that increase the efficiency and effectiveness of processes, protocols, and workflows across the department. Coaches teams to gain buy-in for ideas and to seek feedback on approaches and methods for continued improvement. Prioritizes and reviews the roadmap of improvement initiatives to ensure alignment with strategic direction and maximize return on investments.
Performance and Development:
-Serves as a role model for driving performance across teams through tailored feedback and coaching in alignment with performance management processes, guidelines, and expectations. Drives consistency in the application of talent development procedures and socializes performance expectations across the organization. Ensures that individual development goals are aligned with organizational strategic initiatives. Collaborates with HR to implement talent strategy through hiring and promotion processes.

Qualifications

Disclaimer:

Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.

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

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $146,300 to $306,400 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

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.
As part of Oracle's onboarding process and consistent with applicable law, US-based employees are required to complete identity verification, which involves the collection and processing of their biometric information. Accommodations to this requirement may be granted following an individualized assessment.

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Oracle Dyn Global Business Unit is a pioneer in managed DNS and a leader in cloud-based infrastructure that connects users with digital content and experiences across a global internet. Dyn's solution is powered by a global network that drives 40 billion traffic optimization decisions daily for more than 3,500 enterprise customers, including preeminent digital brands such as Netflix, Twitter, Linkedin and CNBC. Adding Dyn's best-in-class DNS and email services extend the Oracle cloud computing platform and provides enterprise customers with a one-stop shop for Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). On January 31, 2017 Oracle completed the acquisition of Dyn, which now operates as an Oracle Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) global business unit (GBU).

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