Data Center Fabric Network Automation Engineer

Mistral AI

Greater London

On-site

GBP 90,000 - 150,000

Full time

14 days+

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Healthcare coverage
Relocation support
Wellness programs
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Job summary

Mistral AI is seeking a Software Engineer, Network Automation for our data-center fabrics. You will design and implement scalable leaf-spine underlays, EVPN/VXLAN overlays, and automation tooling to keep large AI workloads flowing.

The role emphasizes production-grade software and strong networking fundamentals. Go experience is helpful but not required; primary focus is reliability, observability, and efficient change management in a vendor-neutral environment.

Qualifications

  • Deep hands-on experience with leaf-spine fabrics and EVPN/VXLAN.
  • Strong understanding of multi-tenant data-center networks.
  • Experience building/operating production network automation systems.

Responsibilities

  • Design and evolve leaf-spine underlays and EVPN/VXLAN overlays for AI infra.
  • Translate fabric requirements into APIs, data models, and automation.
  • Build reliable control-plane software to reconcile desired and observed state.
  • Design safe change workflows with validation and rollback.
  • Integrate with data-center switch OS and management APIs with vendor-neutral abstractions.
  • Participate in on-call rotations and troubleshoot incidents.
  • Review designs and code, communicate trade-offs across teams.
  • Develop tests to improve software and architecture.

Skills

Ethernet switching
IP routing
BGP-based leaf-spine
EVPN/VXLAN
VRF-based multitenancy
Go (willing to learn)
Production network automation
Software engineering fundamentals
Debugging and testing

Tools

Cumulus Linux
Arista EOS
SONiC
Junos
NX-OS

Job description

Mistral AI is seeking a Software Engineer, Network Automation for our data-center fabrics. You will design and implement scalable leaf-spine underlays, EVPN/VXLAN overlays, and automation tooling to keep large AI workloads flowing.

The role emphasizes production-grade software and strong networking fundamentals. Go experience is helpful but not required; primary focus is reliability, observability, and efficient change management in a vendor-neutral environment.

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