Key skills
AnsibleGrafanaJenkinsKafkaLinuxPHPPrometheusPythonRustGoGolangAIGitHub ActionsArgoCDGitHubCI/CD
About this role
Role Overview
- Automate deployment and operations of large-scale RDMA (RoCEv2) Ethernet fabrics across Vultr data centers.
- Build Ansible and Python-based frameworks to provision, validate, and remediate underlay and overlay networks.
- Integrate network automation with Vultr’s source-of-truth systems (NetBox, OpsMill) for intent-driven configuration and validation.
- Develop telemetry ingestion and correlation pipelines (gNMI, Prometheus, Kafka, custom collectors) for real-time network health and performance metrics.
- Collaborate with platform, orchestration, and product engineering teams to optimize RDMA performance, PFC/ECN behavior, and path symmetry across fabrics.
- Implement CI/CD workflows for network configuration changes — validation, pre-checks, and rollbacks.
- Investigate complex network behaviors across layers — flow hashing, congestion domains, ECMP, and overlay interactions.
- Contribute to the design of next-generation GPU and AI interconnect fabrics, ensuring seamless integration into Vultr’s global network architecture.
Requirements
- Solid understanding of modern data center networking: EVPN-VXLAN, BGP, MLAG, QoS, and traffic engineering.
- Deep familiarity with RoCEv2, RDMA transport tuning, ECN/PFC, and lossless Ethernet design.
- Strong experience with automation frameworks like Ansible, and languages like Python, Golang, Rust, or PHP
- Comfort working with telemetry and monitoring stacks — Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, ELK, or similar.
- Previous experience integrating with NetBox, Nautobot, OpsMill or similar for topology and configuration source-of-truth.
- Familiarity with CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD) for continuous delivery of network automation.
- Strong Linux networking background, including namespaces, netlink, and system-level debugging.
Tech Stack
- Ansible
- Grafana
- Jenkins
- Kafka
- Linux
- PHP
- Prometheus
- Python
- Rust
- Go
Benefits
- 100% company-paid insurance premiums for employee medical, dental and vision plans.
- 401(k) plan that matches 100% up to 4%, with immediate vesting
- Professional Development Reimbursement of $2,500 each year
- 11 Holidays + Paid Time Off Accrual + Rollover Plan
- Increased PTO at 3 year and 10 year anniversary + 1 month paid sabbatical every 5 years + Anniversary Bonus each year
- $500 stipend for remote office setup in first year + $400 each following year
- Internet reimbursement up to $75 per month
- Gym membership reimbursement up to $50 per month
- Company paid Wellable subscription