Lead Network Engineer – AI Data Center Backbone

Contabo; United States; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote or hybrid work options

Workation in Mallorca

Wellness program (EGYM Wellpass)

Corporate discounts

30 days vacation + holidays

Volunteer Day

Ownership mindset

Job summary

Contabo seeks a Senior Network Engineer to own and optimize our global network backbone. You’ll manage Leaf‑Spine architecture, BGP EVPN VXLAN, and collaborate across teams to deliver secure, scalable infra.

The role offers remote-first flexibility with hybrid or on-site options near European data centers, including Berlin and others. You will drive from commissioning to steady production operations, with growth into automation, DDoS mitigation, and observability, while partnering with Platform

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on experience with complex, scalable networks and fabric infrastructures on Cisco and/or Arista, ideally with Leaf‑Spine and BGP EVPN VXLAN exposure.
• Strong expertise in WAN connectivity, data centre peering, uplink management, VPN, and IPv6.
• Strong expertise in security administration and DDoS mitigation.
• Solid monitoring skills with Grafana, Check_MK, or Zabbix.
• Good scripting and automation skills with Ansible, Terraform, Python, or similar.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate complex network, server, and security systems, analyse and resolve faults, and harden network security through scrubbers, firewalls, ACLs, and NAC.
• Monitor network traffic and infrastructure performance, derive KPIs for management, and coordinate with external providers and remote hands globally.
• Maintain network diagrams, runbooks, change logs, and system documentation; collaborate with Platform Engineering on Cilium BGP peering, Kubernetes node network configuration, and IPAM (NetBox).
• Join a self-organising, agile team that owns problems end to end from analysis to resolution without micromanagement.
• Grow into infrastructure automation, DDoS mitigation, observability, and BGP EVPN fabric engineering, with national and international project work.

Skills

Leaf-Spine

BGP EVPN VXLAN

WAN connectivity

DDoS mitigation

Monitoring tools

Automation scripting

Kubernetes networking

IPAM NetBox

Arista certification

Team collaboration

Tools

Grafana

Check_MK

Zabbix

Ansible

Terraform

Python

Proxmox

NetBox

Job description

Contabo seeks a Senior Network Engineer to own and optimize our global network backbone. You’ll manage Leaf‑Spine architecture, BGP EVPN VXLAN, and collaborate across teams to deliver secure, scalable infra.

The role offers remote-first flexibility with hybrid or on-site options near European data centers, including Berlin and others. You will drive from commissioning to steady production operations, with growth into automation, DDoS mitigation, and observability, while partnering with Platform