Network Site Reliability Engineer

at Nvidia

USD 168,000-333,500 per year

SENIOR

✅ Hybrid

Tech Stack
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Details

The Enterprise Network Support and SRE team is looking for a seasoned Technical SRE lead to help actualize the SRE vision for network infrastructure. This role focuses on making network operations seamless, with an emphasis on user experience, troubleshooting, network automation, observability, documentation, and operational excellence.

The Network SRE will enhance network operations, minimize manual labor, achieve Service Level Objectives (SLOs), reduce reactive operational tasks, document knowledge-base articles for bots, complete root-cause analyses (RCAs), conduct blameless postmortems, and proactively identify and mitigate network risks. The role also includes significant project work, mentoring, and leading by example.

Responsibilities

Own the operational aspects of network infrastructure, ensuring high availability and reliability.
Partner with architecture and deployment teams to ensure new implementations are supportable and align with production standards.
Advocate for and implement automation to reduce toil and improve operational efficiency.
Monitor network performance, identify areas for improvement, and coordinate with relevant teams to implement enhancements.
Collaborate with subject-matter experts to resolve production issues quickly and effectively while maintaining customer satisfaction.
Identify operational improvement opportunities and partner with teams to develop sustainable network operations solutions.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
8+ years of industry experience in network site reliability engineering, network automation, network operations, or related areas.
Experience with both campus and data center networks.
Familiarity with network management tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Alert Manager, Nautobot/NetBox, and BigPanda.
Expertise in network automation using Salt, Ansible, or similar frameworks.
In-depth experience with Python, Go, or both.
Knowledge of TCP/UDP, IPv4/IPv6, wireless networking, BGP, VPN, Layer 2 switching, firewalls, load balancers, EVPN, VxLAN, and segment routing.
Proven track record in network operations.
Experience with ServiceNow and Jira.
Knowledge of Linux system fundamentals is a plus.
Systematic problem-solving approach, excellent communication skills, ownership, and drive.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience using operational signals such as SNMP, Syslog, and streaming telemetry to solve operational challenges.
History of debugging and optimizing code and automating routine tasks.
Experience with Mellanox/Cumulus Linux, Palo Alto firewalls, Netscalers, and F5 load balancers.
Previous SRE experience.