Remote Network DevOps Engineer for RDMA Fabric Automation

Webhosting; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% company-paid health insurance

401(k) match up to 4%

Professional development reimbursement

Job summary

Vultr is seeking a highly skilled Network DevOps Engineer to automate and operate our RoCE-based Ethernet fabrics across global data centers. This role sits at the crossroads of network engineering, operations, automation, and observability, building tooling and telemetry pipelines to keep fabrics fast, deterministic, and reliable at scale.

The position emphasizes collaboration with platform and product teams, CI/CD for network changes, and solving complex RDMA performance challenges to ensure

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

Job description

Vultr is seeking a highly skilled Network DevOps Engineer to automate and operate our RoCE-based Ethernet fabrics across global data centers. This role sits at the crossroads of network engineering, operations, automation, and observability, building tooling and telemetry pipelines to keep fabrics fast, deterministic, and reliable at scale.

The position emphasizes collaboration with platform and product teams, CI/CD for network changes, and solving complex RDMA performance challenges to ensure