Senior Network Engineer, GIOC
Vultr — Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India · In-Person · Senior
Role description
Role Overview
We are seeking Senior Network Engineers to own escalated and complex incidents across Vultr’s network estate. This is a deep-dive engineering role for experienced network operators who lead troubleshooting, drive root-cause analysis, author runbooks, and mentor Network Engineers.
What You Will Do
You will own incidents escalated from Network Engineers, lead complex troubleshooting, and drive incidents to resolution within defined SLAs. You will also determine root cause, deliver permanent fixes, and raise the team’s capability through runbooks and mentoring.
Why It Might Be a Fit
You will be a senior escalation point and network subject-matter expert, leading major-incident bridges, partnering with Engineering SMEs and providers on architecture-level fixes, and raising the team’s capability through runbooks and mentoring.
Requirements
- 5-8 years of experience in network engineering, network operations, or infrastructure operations
- Deep hands-on networking expertise — routing and switching, BGP/OSPF, DNS, firewalls, load balancing, and CDN
- Strong network troubleshooting using packet capture, flow analysis, and routing/peering diagnostics
- Proven experience leading complex incident diagnosis, root-cause analysis, and permanent remediation
- Network automation/scripting skills (Python, Ansible, or equivalent) and familiarity with monitoring/observability and ITSM tooling
- Strong written and verbal communication for technical leadership, documentation, and mentoring
Benefits
- Medical Insurance stipend paid annually
- 9 Company-Paid Holidays
- Generous Leave Policy + 1 month paid sabbatical every 5 years + Anniversary Bonus each year
- Professional Development Reimbursement
- Internet reimbursement
- Fitness membership reimbursement
- Company paid Wellable subscription