Network DevOps Engineer RDMA Fabric Automation
Vultr is an active independent cloud-infrastructure company providing global compute, GPU, bare-metal, storage, Kubernetes, and serverless AI inference services.
About Vultr
Vultr provides globally available cloud infrastructure for developers, enterprises, and AI innovators, including Cloud Compute, Cloud GPU, Bare Metal, Cloud Storage, managed Kubernetes, and serverless inference.
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About the Role
You will automate deployment and operations for RDMA Ethernet fabrics, build network provisioning and remediation frameworks, integrate source-of-truth systems, and develop telemetry pipelines. You will implement CI/CD validation and rollback workflows, investigate complex network behavior, and help design GPU and AI interconnect fabrics.
Requirements
- Data center networking knowledge including EVPN-VXLAN, BGP, MLAG, QoS, and traffic engineering
- RoCEv2, RDMA transport tuning, ECN, PFC, and lossless Ethernet knowledge
- Ansible and Python, Golang, Rust, or PHP experience
- Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, ELK, or similar telemetry and monitoring experience
- NetBox, Nautobot, OpsMill, or similar source-of-truth integration experience
- GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD, or similar CI/CD experience
- Linux networking, namespaces, netlink, and system-level debugging knowledge
Responsibilities
- Automate deployment and operations of RDMA Ethernet fabrics
- Build Ansible- and Python-based frameworks for network provisioning, validation, and remediation
- Integrate network automation with NetBox and OpsMill
- Develop telemetry ingestion and correlation pipelines
- Optimize RDMA performance, PFC/ECN behavior, and path symmetry
- Implement CI/CD workflows for network configuration validation, pre-checks, and rollbacks
- Investigate flow hashing, congestion domains, ECMP, and overlay interactions
- Contribute to GPU and AI interconnect fabric design
Benefits
- Company-paid employee medical, dental, and vision insurance premiums
- 401(k) plan with 100% match up to 4% and immediate vesting
- Professional development reimbursement of $2,500 each year
- 11 holidays
- Paid time off accrual and rollover plan
- Increased PTO at 3-year and 10-year anniversaries
- One month paid sabbatical every 5 years
- Anniversary bonus each year
- $500 remote office setup stipend in the first year
- $400 annual remote office setup stipend in following years
- Internet reimbursement up to $75 per month
- Gym membership reimbursement up to $50 per month
- Company-paid Wellable subscription