Senior Manager Network Engineering

Job Description

Organizational Overview

Oracle Cloud continues to drive innovation across the infrastructure and cloud services space, empowering enterprise customers worldwide through automation, scalability, and security. The Infrastructure Engineering Services (IES) Data Center Network Engineering team plays a foundational role in this mission delivering enterprise-grade network services that power Oracle's most critical workloads across OCI and OHAI platforms. IES Data Center Network Engineering is comprised of two highly collaborative and specialized groups: Network Strategy defines the strategic direction, standards, and future-state vision of the data center network. Network Implementation Engineering, which implements, maintains, and supports the network infrastructure across our US-based and global data centers. This role will lead the Network Implementation Engineering group, reporting to the manager of Data Center Network Engineering.

Intro and description of the Role Description

The IES Data Center Network Engineering team plays a critical role in maintaining a robust and highly available infrastructure that span US and global centers for both IES and OHAI environments. The team's responsibilities span across core routing and switching, advanced fabric technologies, and network automation, while also managing monitoring, security, and full lifecycle management of hardware and software, including structured upgrade programs from Layer 2 through Layer 7. The team's work underpins network operations, engineering, architecture, and automation for several cross-functional teams, ensuring a smooth and scalable network environment.

One of the team's core priorities is the migration of Cerner and OHAI tenants to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). As the Senior Manager of Network Engineering, you will lead a team of highly skilled network engineers focused on the delivery, support, and optimization of data center infrastructure at scale. You will be responsible for building a culture of technical excellence, operational discipline, and accountability. Your team will drive major upgrades, platform refreshes, and migration effort all while supporting site uptime, reducing incident noise, and maturing engineering hygiene. In addition, you will oversee the structured execution of lifecycle management programs spanning proactive patching, vulnerability remediation, and multi-layer software upgrades across routing, switching, security, and application delivery platforms.

This role requires a strong engineering mindset, people leadership capabilities, and cross-functional coordination skills. You will partner with strategy, architecture, software, compliance, and program management teams to execute a reliable and secure infrastructure roadmap while keeping a sharp eye on live site health and operational excellence. If you are passionate about engineering at scale, leading high-impact teams, and transforming operations through automation and data, we want to hear from you.

Ideal Candidate

Are you energized by tough challenges and inspired by the opportunity to lead transformation in a complex, global environment? Do you value structured thinking, mentorship, and continuous improvement? Are you someone who believes that reliability is achieved through prevention, planning, and precision execution?

Responsibilities

Role specific Responsibilities

Operationally disciplined
Obsessed with live-site reliability and measurable outcomes
Lead the Network Implementation Engineering group, directly managing engineers and senior engineers across US and global data centers
Define and execute engineering team goals using Agile workflows and Confluence documentation
Partner with the Network Strategy team to operationalize future-state network designs
Drive high-visibility implementations, migrations, and refresh projects across global data centers
Ensure compliance with patching, security, and network health metrics
Foster a strong Incident/Problem Management culture using RCA and proactive problem avoidance
Oversee automation efforts for provisioning (Python, Ansible, Git)
Champion engineering best practices and enforce change control processes
Serve as escalation point for critical incidents; support 24/7 network availability goals including manager on-call rotations
Contribute to vendor management and tool evaluation decisions (Cisco, Arista, HPE) with expanded focus on Citrix and F5 technologies, particularly in support of sustainment engineering functions and dotted-line reporting areas
Drive measurement and reporting of KPIs, SLAs, and OLAs
Deliver and support data center network infrastructure across Oracle's global footprint
Achieve high availability through resilient design, maintenance rigor, and proactive engineering
Ensure secure, compliant, and cost-effective solutions aligned to lifecycle management practices
Direct lifecycle management of network infrastructure hardware and software across all layers (L2-L7), including structured software upgrade programs for routing, switching, firewall, and application delivery platforms
Establish long-term lifecycle roadmaps with proactive planning for patching, end-of-support transitions, and vendor-driven feature enhancements
Establish and maintain collaborative partnerships with peer teams and stakeholders
Cultivate team culture grounded in accountability, mentorship, and engineering growth

Required Qualifications

U.S. Citizenship and ability to pass a federal background check (SF-86)
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field or equivalent hands-on experience
7+ years of experience in enterprise-scale network engineering
3+ years managing high-performing technical teams
Demonstrated success leading network engineering projects in data center environments
Deep understanding of network protocols (BGP, OSPF, MPLS, IPSEC), routing, and Layer 2/3 architecture
Experience working with Cisco ASR, ACI, NX-OS, ASA, Firepower, Arista EOS, and PAN-OS platforms
Operational experience with monitoring tools, incident management platforms, and performance analytics
Hands-on experience with automation frameworks (Python, Ansible, Git)
Experience with compliance programs and security patching workflows
Proven experience in lifecycle management and structured execution of software upgrades across routing, switching, firewall, and load balancer platforms (L2-L7)
Ability to develop and build frameworks for consistent pre- and post-change validations and to ensure service availability across network platforms

Preferred Qualifications

Prior leadership of a global team in a 24/7 network engineering environment
Knowledge of OCI, Azure, or AWS virtual networking components
Experience leading migrations or tech refreshes in highly regulated environments
Familiarity with Agile/Scrum practices
Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines as related to infrastructure
Proven ability to drive culture and behavioral change within engineering organizations
Experience integrating and operationalizing network analytics tools (Grafana, Elastic, SNMP traps, syslogs)
Knowledge of vendor lifecycle programs, extended support models, and structured upgrade planning methodologies
Experience with F5 BIG-IP, Citrix ADC, or equivalent load balancing and application delivery platforms in global enterprise environments

Qualifications

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: $105,000 to $223,400 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 - M3

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