Senior Core Infrastructure Engineer
Oracle · Posted Oct 27
Cloud infrastructure, enterprise software, database systems, and AI-powered business applications
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About the role
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) builds foundational Infrastructure-as-a-Service technologies for a large-scale, distributed, multi-tenant cloud. The Virtual Cloud Networking (VCN) Dataplane team builds and operates the software-defined networking stack that powers OCI virtual networks and connectivity services. This role builds infrastructure, deployment automation, and operational systems for networking services across infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, distributed systems, observability, and network-focused services.
What you will do
- Design, develop, test, and operate IaaS components and deployment workflows for OCI networking services.
- Build and maintain Terraform-based infrastructure and deployment automation.
- Develop and improve CI/CD pipelines for reliable, repeatable, and safe software delivery.
- Automate operational workflows using Python and Linux-based tooling.
- Partner with dataplane, platform, and service teams to deliver highly available distributed systems.
- Improve service observability through metrics, dashboards, alerts, and logging.
- Investigate and resolve production issues involving deployments, infrastructure, network behavior, and service reliability.
- Work with and understand end-to-end packet-processing paths in virtualized cloud-networking environments.
- Contribute to AI-assisted or agentic automation where it improves engineering productivity, operations, or service intelligence.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5+ years of experience in software engineering, infrastructure automation, or IaaS service development.
- Strong hands-on experience with Terraform for infrastructure provisioning and deployment.
- Experience designing, implementing, or maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
- Proficiency with Linux and Python automation.
- Strong understanding of networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, UDP, routing, packet flows, and network troubleshooting.
- Familiarity with the end-to-end packet-processing path, including packet reception, classification, processing, forwarding, filtering, and observability.
- Ability to troubleshoot network and service issues using packet captures, flow logs, system logs, metrics, and dashboards.
- Understanding of distributed systems, service reliability, and production operations.
- Clear communication skills and the ability to work effectively across engineering teams.
- Career Level - IC3
Preferred qualifications
- Experience with C or C++.
- Knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, containerization, and deploying or operating containerized services.
- Experience with P4 programming and programmable data-plane concepts.
- Familiarity with Prometheus, Grafana, Wireshark, tcpdump, and similar observability or packet-capture tools.
- Experience with DPDK or high-performance packet processing.
- Knowledge of DPUs/IPUs and network offload technologies, such as NVIDIA BlueField or AMD Pensando.
- Experience building or operating highly available services in a public-cloud environment.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Oracle
Oracle Corporation is a multinational computer technology company specializing in cloud-engineered hardware, enterprise software, and database management systems. It provides comprehensive cloud solutions such as Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Oracle Cloud Applications (OCA) to power digital transformations globally. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Oracle is a major player in enterprise AI integration and database solutions.
- Industry
- Cloud Computing
- Company size
- 141000 employees
- Founded
- 1977
- Location
- Austin, Texas, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $56B raised
- 2025-10-24Post IPO Debt$18B
- 2025-02-03Conventional Debt$18B
Leadership
Lawrence J. Ellison
Chairman of the Board and Chief Technology Officer
Clay Magouyrk
Chief Executive Officer
Mike Sicilia
Chief Executive Officer
Hilary Maxson
Chief Financial Officer
Jae Evans
Global Chief Information Officer and Executive Vice President
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