Support the design, deployment, and operations of a large-scale global Oracle cloud computing environment (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - OCI). Primarily focused on qualification of network devices, fabric and systems through a combination of a deep level understanding of networking at the protocol level coupled with programming skills to support the automation of test plans. As OCI is a cloud-based network with a global footprint, this support will include evaluation and test of highly scaled up network infrastructure.
Career Level - IC3
Responsibilities
- Participate in Network lifecycle management through network build and/or upgrade projects.
- Collaborate with program/project managers to develop test strategy landmarks and deliverables.
- Will primarily develop test practices and strategies to validate production network configurations and scale use cases.
- However, may have to develop new test cases and test strategies from time to time.
- Serve as technical lead and test manager for qualification projects.
- Contributes to the development of roadmap issues.
- Leads development of new scripts and method of test procedures.
- Mentors junior engineers.
- Participates in network solution and architecture validation process.
- Responsibility for developing standalone test cases.
- Participate in operational rotations as an R&D consultant.
- Provide break-fix validation support for high impact events.
- Participate in post-event root cause analysis.
- Coordinate with networking automation and monitoring services for the development and integration of support tooling.
- Frequently develops scripts to automate routine tasks for team and business unit.
- Supports and validates network vendor software bug fixes.
- Collaborate with network vendor technical account team and internal network design teams to drive bug resolution and assist in the validation of new firmware and/or operating systems.
Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience in Networking field
- 4+ years of experience in testing, automating at system level
- 4+ years of experience validating 100G, 400G and 800GE cables and pluggable discrete optics
- Fluency in BGP, MPLS, Tunnels, OSPF, TCP, UDP, IP, Networking device hardware
- Experience with Python or other object-oriented programming language
- Experience with optical transceiver EEPROM, DOM and layer 1 physical connectivity
- Experience in RDMA, Infiniband is preferable
- Excellent organizational, verbal, and written communication skills
- Excellent judgment to influence product roadmap direction, features, and priorities.
- Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Electrical/Hardware Engineering or related field
