Vultr · 1 month ago
Manager, Network DevOps
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid, Senior Level
$140K/yr - $150K/yrVultr is on a mission to make high-performance cloud infrastructure easy to use and affordable. They are seeking a Manager of NetDevOps Engineering to lead the team responsible for tooling, automation, and operational intelligence to maintain their global network.
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Responsibilities
Own the NetDevOps roadmap — spanning automation, observability, configuration validation, telemetry ingestion, and operational tooling for the global network
Manage and grow a high-performing team of NetDevOps Engineers, providing technical guidance, career development, and hands-on mentorship
Drive automation for complex environments, including EVPN-VXLAN data center fabrics, RoCEv2 lossless Ethernet, and global WAN/edge infrastructure
Build and evolve operator tooling for Network Operations (Tier 1/2) including event correlation, intent validation, playbooks, and automated remediation workflows
Ensure operational excellence across fleet-wide updates, config management, CI/CD pipelines, and reliability metrics for automation systems
Partner closely with Cloud Networking (who own front-end networking, VPC automation, dataplane behavior) to unify automation interfaces and ensure clean separation of responsibilities
Collaborate with Architecture, Platform, and GPU/AI Engineering on next-generation fabric design, automation hooks, observability, and provisioning flows
Standardize telemetry ingestion and correlation pipelines (gNMI, Kafka, Prometheus, custom collectors) to generate actionable, real-time insights into network behavior
Lead complex investigations across routing, switching, RDMA transport behavior, congestion, ECMP, and overlay/underlay interactions, especially where tooling or automation must evolve
Define engineering standards, SLIs/SLOs for automation services, and operational maturity goals (testing, documentation, failure modes)
Qualification
Required
Strong experience building and leading high-performing engineering teams (NetDevOps, SRE, automation, or network engineering groups)
Deep understanding of modern data center networking: EVPN-VXLAN, BGP, QoS, telemetry, and config automation
Familiarity with RoCEv2/RDMA fabrics, PFC/ECN tuning, congestion management, or GPU/AI fabric operations
Hands-on experience with automation ecosystems - Ansible, Python, Go, Rust, CI/CD pipelines, config linting, and intent validation frameworks
Experience integrating automation with a Source-of-Truth (NetBox, Nautobot, OpsMill, homegrown systems)
Strong understanding of telemetry and monitoring stacks (Prometheus/Grafana, Kafka, OpenTelemetry, custom collectors)
Ability to dive deep into Linux networking internals, namespaces, netlink, and distributed systems behavior
Proven experience delivering reliable automation services at scale, with strong fundamentals in testing, versioning, rollback, and change management
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
Commitment matters to Vultr! 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
Vultr is an AI cloud infrastructure platform offering latest generation NVIDIA GPUs and AMD CPUs and GPUs across 32 worldwide regions
Founded in 2014
201-500 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$662M2025-06-23Debt Financing· $329M
2024-12-18Private Equity· $333M
2014-02-20Angel
Leadership Team
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Chief Technology Officer
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