Manager, Network DevOps

Vultr Cares

• 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

Join Vultr

Vultr is building a globally distributed cloud platform that powers everything from small VPS instances to massive AI and GPU superclusters. The network is our backbone — automated, observable, and engineered for deterministic performance at scale.

We’re looking for a Manager, NetDevOps Engineering to lead the team responsible for the tooling, automation, and operational intelligence that keeps Vultr’s global network running with precision. This team builds the systems that empower Network Operations, Cloud Networking, and platform engineering to deploy, validate, and debug complex environments — from EVPN fabrics to lossless RoCE underlays powering next-generation AI workloads.
This is a highly technical leadership position. As Manager of NetDevOps, you will be expected to contribute hands-on — reviewing automation logic, understanding telemetry pipelines, reasoning through distributed systems behavior, and guiding engineering direction with real technical depth. You’ll balance this with strong people development: mentoring engineers, creating growth plans, and building a culture of clarity, reliability, and curiosity.

You’ll lead a group of engineers who think programmatically, automate first, and build robust systems that turn network operations into software workflows.

Key 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).

Qualifications

• 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 scalem with strong fundamentals in testing, versioning, rollback, and change management.

Compensation

$140,000 - $150,000

This salary can vary based on location, years of experience, background and skill set.