Network Engineer

Location:
Austin, TX, 78735 (Hybrid - 2 Days in office)

Only U.S. Citizens and Green Card (GC) Holders are eligible for this role.

NOTE:
This is a W2 role

• This is a fantastic opportunity to join a newly formed Private Cloud team.
• We are responsible for the design, deployment and operations of a new greenfield on-prem private cloud based on Open Stack.
• The Private Cloud HPC Network Engineer will help design, build and evolve the high-performance network architecture underpinning our Private Cloud platform that will be used for HPC workloads.
• The role combines deep data-center and HPC networking expertise with modern cloud networking, software-defined infrastructure and automation.
• As part of the Private Cloud team, you will collaborate closely with compute, storage, platform engineering teams to deliver a scalable, resilient and highly automated cloud infrastructure.

• Design and evolve network architecture, standards and patterns for large-scale Private Cloud Open Stack and HPC environments.
• Develop scalable Leaf-Spine architectures using technologies including BGP, EVPN, VXLAN and ECMP.
• Design networking for high-performance compute, storage and latency-sensitive engineering workloads.
• Evaluate technologies including SR-IOV, SmartNICs, DPUs and high-performance Ethernet.
• Integrate physical network infrastructure with Open Stack networking services including Neutron, OVN and ML2.
• Define network architecture for virtual machines, bare-metal workloads and Kubernetes platforms.
• Perform performance analysis, network optimization and lead technical evaluation and benchmarking of networking technologies and vendors.
• Lead network security architecture and threat modelling while also leading complex cross-domain issues spanning compute, storage, networking and HPC applications.

• Strong experience designing and supporting high-performance or large-scale compute environments using RoCE, RDMA or Infini Band in a Cisco NX-OS and/or Arista EOS.
• Deep understanding of BGP routing and network architectures, Leaf-Spine network, Layer 2 and Layer 3, ECMP, EVPN and VXLAN and network resilience.
• With exposure to newer technologies such as SmartNICs, DPUs & NVMe-over-Fabrics.
• Practical experience of Open Stack network services and developing integrated network automation and API driven interfaces.
• Strong HPC network observability, troubleshooting and performance tuning skills.

• Strong Linux knowledge and Kubernetes networking.
• Exposure to SR-IOV and DPDK.
• Demonstrable hands-on Python, Ansible and Terraform experience.
• Using SRE principles in the creation of SLI/SLO and error budgets