Network Engineer - Bengaluru, India - Oracle

Description

Job Description

As part of the Network Team within Oracle's Cloud infrastructure organization, you and your team will be responsible for supporting reliable and secure connectivity solutions for customers. You will be supporting our OCI customers on networking that enable customers in developing, selling, and delivering Oracle products worldwide.

Overview

The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure team is building a new technology organization. This new entity is being constructed with an entrepreneurial spirit that promotes an energetic and creative environment. We are unencumbered and will need your contribution to make it a world class engineering center with the laser focus on excellence.

Oracle's extensive enterprise customer base is looking for rock solid cloud solutions that provide the same reliability and effectiveness that they have come to expect from Oracle. As a trusted Enterprise vendor, Oracle is in the early stages to provide highly cost-effective compute, storage, & PaaS Cloud solutions to its customer base.

We are specifically looking for Technical Engineer(s) to join our group, who are customer-focused with technical support experience to build a world-first and best in class customer experience. You will be responsible for post-sales support; assisting customers to troubleshoot and resolve issues they face while using our Cloud services. You will take an active role in the definition and evolution of standard practices and procedures. Work is non-routine and very complex, involving the application of advanced technical/business skills in area of specialization.

Responsibilities

We are looking for an experienced network and security engineer with a strong technical background to help us transform the OCI network. As a Network Engineer, you will be responsible for the delivery and operation of critical customers connectivity services. You will work with peers, management, and project managers to deliver solutions, maintain network services, and provide escalation support for the Escalations team. You should be comfortable working in a fast-moving environment that requires agility and the drive to deliver. You should be comfortable taking on new challenges that develop your skills.

• Have a data-driven mindset/passion
• Enable Oracle support to resolve customer issues through sharing best practices, training, tooling and directly resolving escalations.
• Build and maintain excellent relationships with customers and achieve the highest level of customer satisfaction.
• Act on behalf of the customer as their cloud support(technical) team, partnering with engineering, platform operations, and customer service teams to restore customer availability
• Work as part of our extended support team in a startup atmosphere, doing whatever it takes to exceed customer expectations.
• Proactively monitor customer issues until they are fully resolved, keeping the customer informed along the way of incident (Service Ticket) lifecycle
• Focus on support/incidents & issues.
• Document key learnings and other relevant details as part of the support you provide.
• Continually improve skills through work experience and training(s)
• Troubleshooting, diagnosing, and resolving hardware, software, and other network and system problems
• Identify opportunities to automate responses to common operational problems and requests
• Ensure compliance, configuration and data quality levels are maintained
• Work with internal stakeholders, external network, and security vendors
• Document work instructions or procedures

Experience

General

• Good written and verbal English communication skills
• Effectively communicate with people on both a technical and non-technical level
• Ability to work with a global, remote workforce
• Self-motivated professional with the ability to work in a pressured production environment while not compromising on the quality of the service provided
• A focus on customer service / satisfaction.

Specific

• Bachelor's degree, in Computer Science, MIS or related field
• 4+ years' experience in Infrastructure or related field
• Experience supporting network and network security technologies, including:
• Protocols such as BGP/OSPF/IS-IS, TCP, IPv4, IPv6, VxLAN, DNS, DHCP, MPLS, SSL
• SDWAN
• Routers and switches such as Cisco Nexus, Juniper MX, and Arista
• Firewalls such as Fortinet, Juniper, and Palo Alto
• Load balancers such as F5
• In-depth knowledge of routing and switching
• Experience performing regular capacity management functions for network and security components
• Demonstrated ability to quickly troubleshoot network and network security problems to root cause, to restore service, and to identify long term corrective and preventative actions
• Work jointly with automation and monitoring teams to develop service-based monitoring metrics for security and routing functions

Preferred Skills (optional)

• CCNA / CCNP Security OR Fortinet Network Security Expert (NSE) or equivalent
• Technical understanding and practical application of network protocols and technology
• VPN – IPSEC and SSL
• Firewalls and load balancers, security policy management
• Network / Security monitoring tools such as SNMP, MTRG, Prometheus, and Grafana, etc.
• Technical understanding and practical application of security support
• Technical understanding and practical application of DevOps
• Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery & Deployment Tools
• Network as Code strategy
• Familiarity with IaaS/PaaS/SaaS infrastructure/environments
• Integration technologies (APIs)
• Scripting experience in Ansible, Python, and others

Location & Schedule

• The position is based in Bangalore/Hyderabad/Noida -India.
• You are entitled to work on shifts on weekends other than Saturday and Sunday. You should be willing to support national holidays and public holidays. And most importantly should be open to any Shift.
• This is a fulltime, permanent position.

Oracle is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, and protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. As part of Oracle's employment process candidates will be required to complete a pre-employment screening process after a conditional offer has been extended.

Employer Description

An Oracle career can span industries, roles, Countries, and cultures, allowing you to flourish in new roles and innovate while blending work life in. Oracle has thrived through 40+ years of change by innovating and operating with integrity while delivering for the top companies in almost every industry.

To nurture the talent that makes this happen, we are committed to an inclusive culture that celebrates and values diverse insights and perspectives, a workforce that inspires thought leadership and innovation.

Oracle offers a highly competitive suite of Employee Benefits designed on the principles of parity, consistency, and affordability. The overall package includes certain core elements such as Medical, Life Insurance, access to Retirement Planning, and much more. We also encourage our employees to engage in the culture of giving back to the communities where we live and do business.

At Oracle, we believe that innovation starts with diversity and inclusion and to create the future we need talent from various backgrounds, perspectives, and abilities. We ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to successfully participate in the job application, interview process, and in potential roles. to perform crucial job functions.

That's why we're committed to creating a workforce where all individuals can do their best work. It's when everyone's voice is heard and valued that we're inspired to go beyond what's been done before.

Oracle is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer*. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans' status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Oracle will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records under applicable law.