Cloud Engineering is looking for Solutions Architects (SAs) 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 solutions, and how to migrate existing workloads to the cloud. The ideal candidate will have a solid understanding of large scale computing 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.
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.
- Author or contribute to customer-facing publications such as whitepapers, blogs, 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.
- Assist customers and partners during US working hours.
- Occasionally assist customers after US working hours.
Basic qualifications
- The right person will possess 7+ years of network design/consulting experience in the software or infrastructure industries and demonstrate an intermediate understanding of applications, server technologies and network 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 partner and customers.
- Expert level understanding of at least one public cloud (such as OCI, AWS, Azure and GCP) 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, DIA, VPLS, dark fiber 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 such as 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
- Research, test and document new technologies.
- Experience with network architecture tuning and performance enhancements.
- Familiarity with common enterprise solutions from Oracle, Microsoft, SAP and VMWare.
- Public cloud certifications especially the OCI architecture certification track.
- Networking professional certifications such as CCIE/CCNP, JNCIE/JNCIP, RHCE/RHCA.
- Experience with Linux, network monitoring and telemetry solutions.
- Experience with scripting or automation frameworks, such as Terraform, Ansible, Python, or other programming languages.
About Us:
Innovation starts with inclusion at Oracle. We are committed to creating a workplace where all kinds of people can be themselves and do their best work. It’s when everyone’s voice is heard and valued, that we are inspired to go beyond what’s been done before. That’s why we need people with diverse backgrounds, beliefs, and abilities to help us create the future, and are proud to be an affirmative-action equal opportunity employer.
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, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. Oracle will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to applicable law.
Life at Oracle:
An Oracle career can span industries, roles, countries and cultures, giving you the opportunity to tackle new roles and challenges, while blending work and life. 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 work hard to build a vibrant and inspiring workplace that celebrates diverse, hardworking teams where everyone can contribute. We take care of each other, and value giving back to the community. We have flexible work arrangements and offer benefits including generous paid parental leave and comprehensive premium medical insurance.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
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