Job Description & Federal / Government background screening requiredOrganizational 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) Federal Network team plays a foundational role in this mission, delivering enterprise-grade networking and security solutions that power Oracle's most critical workloads across US-based OCI and OHAI data centers for our Federal customers.
The IES Federal Network team is responsible for the network strategy, support, and standardization of the Federal environment in OHAI's US-based data centers and cloud footprint. The team's responsibilities span across core routing and switching, security services including firewall management, advanced fabric technologies, OCI cloud networking, and network automation. They are responsible for managing monitoring, security, and lifecycle management of hardware and software. 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 our Federal clients to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). To support this, the Federal Network team requires experienced specialized network operations personnel who possess both deep architectural knowledge and extensive migration experience. Ensuring Site UP is the top priority, we are laser focused on ensuring site reliability, performance, and security while leading migration efforts to the next generation cloud infrastructure. Consisting of a group of experienced Network Engineers, the IES Federal Network team is the high-octane engine powering the transformation of our data center network to native cloud based infrastructure. This role offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to cutting-edge network engineering and cloud transformation projects, working with diverse teams to shape the future of enterprise networking solutions.
Role DescriptionOracle Infrastructure Engineering Services (IES) is seeking a highly skilled Sr. Manager of Federal Networking to lead and advance network engineering and operations capabilities across Oracle Health and the wider Oracle Industries ecosystem. This leader will play a crucial role in managing day to day network operations in a highly dynamic environment by optimizing operational processes, unifying disparate team cultures, and delivering reliable, secure, and compliant network services for government healthcare customers. You will work hands-on to manage a team of engineers and guide teams through change and build trust, driving the adoption of best practices, cutting-edge automation, and data-driven continuous improvement.
This position requires leadership and decision-making in a complex, global, highly regulated setting. You will empower engineering teams by providing clear priorities, professional development, and support, while personally managing executive, cross-unit, and customer-facing escalations. You will serve as the central point for integrating new teams and legacy organizations, ensuring consistent network operations, compliance, and delivery quality across multiple business units in the Oracle Industries Global Industry Units (GIUs) ecosystem.
In this role, you will be accountable for setting operational direction, leading cultural and technological integration, and driving measurable progress through thoughtful risk-taking, iterative enhancements, and adaptive leadership. You will develop strong relationships with team members at all levels, foster buy-in in challenging cross-functional environments, and champion both the needs of the business and the growth of your people. Success will be measured by your ability to raise operational maturity, improve incident response, and unify performance and delivery outcomes for Oracle's industry-leading healthcare and enterprise platforms.
ResponsibilitiesRole specific Responsibilities: - Lead, mentor, and develop a diverse, high-performing network engineering and operations team.
- Oversee network implementation, maintenance and support of the federal network environment, including lifecycle management and vulnerability management aspects.
- Monitor and adjust operational processes to achieve the highest level of efficiency while meeting customer and company requirements.
- Ensure change management processes are followed to ensure environment changes are well documented and communicated.
- Ensure incident management processes are followed to ensure timely incident resolution is accomplished to meet SLA requirements.
- Advocate for your team in support of team values and SLAs related to work requests and projects.
- Support team 24x7 oncall activities by understanding work instruction and related incident and escalation processes.
- Manage day-to-day operational integrity of network services across traditional federal enclave and OCI environments ensuring robust performance, high availability, and compliance with regulatory standards such as FedRAMP and HIPAA.
- Foster a culture centered on engineering excellence, technical rigor, and curiosity, where teams are encouraged to experiment and improve through iterative development and measured risk-taking.
- Champion the adoption and optimization of automation frameworks including Python and Ansible, driving down manual effort, error rates, and incident response times.
- Establish and enforce best practices for network performance monitoring, proactive issue detection, root cause analysis, and the prevention of repeat incidents.
- Personally manage and respond to executive- and customer-facing escalations, providing calm, data-informed leadership during high-stakes incidents.
- Collaborate with leaders and stakeholders across Oracle Health and the government to harmonize priorities, resolve dependencies, and share operational learnings.
- Directly engage in the post-incident review process, ensuring actionable root cause analysis, implementation of preventative measures, and a culture of learning and continuous improvement.
- Own operational metrics, reporting, and accountability for established SLAs, performance KPIs, and audit readiness. Present clear, honest assessments of risks and achievements to executive leadership.
- Partner with HR and Talent Acquisition to identify, recruit, and retain top network engineering talent, helping to build resilient, high-capacity teams.
- Promote open communication and constructive debate while modeling decisiveness and accountability, especially when consensus cannot be reached or ambiguity persists.
- Navigate complex business environments and regulatory requirements while guiding your team in adapting to shifting priorities, new technologies, and evolving customer needs.
- Lead training, knowledge transfer, and capability building initiatives to ensure operations teams are equipped to handle the demands of Oracle's global, mission-critical networks.
- Outline and communicate high level new project milestones and dates to ensure accurate and timely project delivery while taking into account existing priorities and timelines.
Required Qualifications: - United States citizenship and federal criminal background check processing including but not limited to submission of SF-86 are requirements for this role.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field or equivalent hands-on experience
- 10+ years of experience leading teams in an 24x7 enterprise-scale network operations environment
- 5+ years managing high-performing technical teams
- Ability to develop and build frameworks for consistent pre- and post-change validations and to ensure service availability across network platforms
- Experience in capacity management, traffic engineering, and performance optimization
- Demonstrated progressive increase in role specific responsibilities and associated complexities.
- Experience with Network life cycle management (LCM) programs including an ability to create and maintain detailed technical documentation of network and cloud system designs, configurations, and methods of procedure.
- Familiarity with system monitoring concepts and ability to define key performance indicators and thresholds for new services.
- Ability to observe and adjust existing or implement new processes to meet a goal or solve a problem area.
- Excellent cross functional team communication and coordination skills.
- 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 ACI, NX-OS, Palo Alto, Citrix Netscaler, F5, 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)
Additional preferred skills and experience: - Knowledge of Virtual Cloud Network technologies (OCI, Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, etc).
- Demonstrated ability to define and measure performance of Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), KPIs, Operational Level Agreements (OLAs), and Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
- Experience leading migrations or tech refreshes in highly regulated environments
- Familiarity with Agile/Scrum practices
- 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
QualificationsDisclaimer:
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 onlyUS: 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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