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Vultr · 1 month ago

Junior Network Operations Engineer

Vultr is on a mission to make high-performance cloud infrastructure easy to use, affordable, and locally accessible for enterprises and AI innovators around the world. The Network Operations Engineer will support the health and stability of the network infrastructure, working directly with customers and internal teams to troubleshoot and improve network performance.

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Responsibilities

Work directly with customers through tickets to onboard BYO-BGP customers, troubleshoot performance issues related to availability, reachability, latency, and jitter as well as cloud native VPC networks
Research network events to identify potentially contributing technical debt, architecture issues, or process problems and take ownership of driving end to end improvements across the platforms
Compose, review and test procedure documentation which provides for scheduled maintenance that eliminates customer impact and improves the overall customer experience
Work with internal teams to ensure that network issues including automation are resolved quickly
Troubleshoot issues to identify issues at any layer of the OSI Model

Qualification

Network operations troubleshootingBGP based networksLinux administrationVxLANCloud networkingScripting in PythonProactive problem detectionVendor ticket managementAnsible playbooksNetwork automationCertifications CCNACertifications JNCIADocumentation skills

Required

Experience with network operations troubleshooting, planning and deployment of network changes
A minimum of 1-2 years of experience with BGP based networks, including comprehensive experience with Internet scale routing tables, IRR's, RIR's, RPKI, routing policies, peering policies and architectures
Understanding of technologies and protocols such as VxLAN, EVPN
Understanding of networking in the cloud including VPC's, NFV, Direct Connect, and IPsec
Skilled with documenting the troubleshooting processes for repetitive tasks
Proactive approach to detecting network issues before they become a larger problem
Experience opening and following up tickets with vendors and transit providers
Understanding of 1 or more vendors and operating systems such as Juniper, Cisco, Brocade, Cumulus, and SONiC
Flexible schedule to meet scheduled Maintenance requirements, which may include weekends and holidays
Constant is hiring for a highly skilled candidate to meet our 24x7x365 operational requirements

Preferred

Basic Linux administration experience (Debian is preferred), including understanding of Linux Kernel routes, iptables, nftables, ebtables, ipset, and network routing suites such as FRR and Bird (preferred)
Knowledge of building scripts/tools to automate repeatable network changes and to gather network health data is preferred
Scripting in Python and knowledge of Ansible playbooks is a plus
Certifications such as CCNA, JNCIA are highly preferred

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

Company

Vultr

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Vultr is an AI cloud infrastructure platform offering latest generation NVIDIA GPUs and AMD CPUs and GPUs across 32 worldwide regions

H1B Sponsorship

Vultr has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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2024 (1)

Funding

Current Stage
Growth Stage
Total Funding
$662M
2025-06-23Debt Financing· $329M
2024-12-18Private Equity· $333M
2014-02-20Angel

Leadership Team

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Mike Marinescu
Chief Technology Officer
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