Vice President Engineering - Networking

This position is responsible for leading the Development and Operations of

Virtual Networking Control Plane Services of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

Specific responsibilities include:

•Own, lead, and drive VP responsibilities including Engineering,

Operations, building the right team to own the industry’s best cloud

network.

•Co-own the product vision and roadmap for Virtual Network products of

OCI. Influence product strategy and roadmap/direction.

•Foster and maintain strong/positive relationships across other groups

and teams within Oracle, including dependencies such as Compute,

Storage, Security, and Database.

•Review, plan, and lead new services, features, and programs critical to

Oracle Cloud, our customers, and partners.

•Identify and build key strategic partnerships with other technology

partners and companies across the industry.

•Ensure successful delivery based on team, division, and company

priorities.

•Stay abreast of the latest innovations in the cloud technology space and

apply them as appropriate to Oracle's service offerings.

•Lead by example, setting a clear culture of teamwork, high expectations,

success, and customer focus.

•Manage, mentor and coach a team, helping them grow their skills and

maximize their impact. Coach and lead the team to create rock-solid

solutions, offerings, and remarkable products.

•Support/advocate/grow the role of software within networking – driving

automation and monitoring that does awesome things.

•Demonstrated leadership and people management skills. Strong

communication skills, analytical skills, thorough understanding of

software engineering.

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to achieve targets while analyzing trends and identifying areas for

improvement.

What you’ll bring

•Leadership Scope: Lead a 100+ member organization spanning Virtual

Network Control Plane and Distribution Services.

•Domain Expertise: Deep expertise in virtual networking (CDN, Proxies,

DNS, Load Balancers) and Compute.

•Scale & Architecture: Proven track record designing and operating

largescale, highly available, distributed network systems.

•Operational Excellence: Strong ownership of ops – uptime, incident

reduction , MTTR improvements, and reliability engineering practices.

•Multi-Functional Leadership: Ability to “wear multiple hats” across

engineering, operations, capacity planning, and cost optimization,

customer relationship.

•Efficiency & Optimization: Drive infra efficiency (utilization, cost per unit,

automation) and continuous optimization at scale.

•AI/Automation Adoption: Leverage AI/ML and automation to improve

observability, operations, and engineering productivity.

•Stakeholder Management: Influence at EVP/SVP/VP level; align across

product, infra, and business teams.

•Talent Leadership: Build and scale high-performing leadership bench; org

design, succession planning, and culture of accountability.

Skills and Experience:

•Depth of knowledge around Networking concepts and market/industry

trends; Thorough understanding of Hyperscale Cloud Networks, Network

Protocols, Software Defined Networking & software engineering

processes, techniques, and best practices.

•Delivering large scale/cloud Network products, designs, and solutions.•Being a customer champion and a very effective spokesperson and

authority on global cloud networking.

•Ability to lead a large organization to deliver and launch scalable

solutions.

•Leadership and people management skills. Strong communication skills,

analytical skills, thorough understanding of software engineering.

•Ability to influence a diverse set of business and technology leaders

including key executives, customers, industry analysts.

Disclaimer:

Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $224,600 to $480,700 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.


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 - M6

As a Vice President of the software engineering division, you will apply your extensive knowledge of software architecture to manage software development tasks associated with developing, debugging or designing software applications, operating systems and databases according to current and future design specifications. Build enhancements within an existing software architecture and envision improvements to the architecture.