Network DevOps Engineer, RDMA Fabric Automation

Vultr is seeking a highly skilled and experienced NetDevOps Engineer to help automate and operate RoCE-based Ethernet fabrics, working at the intersection of network engineering, operations, automation, and observability in a high-growth cloud infrastructure company.

Location: Remote - United States

Salary: $90,000 - $130,000

Responsibilities

• 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.

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.