Principal Architect, Cloud Engineering, Networking - West

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 Google Cloud Platform) 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.

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: $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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