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Chennai Corporation, Tamil Nadu, India
Onsite
Vultr is on a mission to make high-performance cloud infrastructure easy to use, affordable, and locally accessible for enterprises and AI innovators around the world. With 33 global cloud data center locations, Vultr is trusted by hundreds of thousands of active customers across 185 countries for its flexible, scalable, global Cloud Compute, Cloud GPU, Bare Metal, and Cloud Storage solutions. In December 2024 Vultr announced an equity financing at a $3.5 billion valuation. Founded by David Aninowsky and self-funded for over a decade, Vultr has grown to become the world’s largest privately-held cloud infrastructure company.
Vultr Cares
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
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Vultr is expanding its India presence and is building its first Global Integrated Operations Command Center (GIOC) in Chennai — the 24x7 nerve center for monitoring, triage, and incident resolution across Vultr’s global network operations.
We are seeking Senior Network Engineers to own escalated and complex incidents across Vultr’s network estate — routing, switching, DNS, CDN, load balancing, and connectivity. This is a deep-dive engineering role for experienced network operators who lead troubleshooting, drive root-cause analysis, author runbooks, and mentor Network Engineers — and who want to grow toward network architecture, SRE, or platform engineering. You must be comfortable with a rotational shift and on-call model — including nights, weekends, and holidays — to sustain follow-the-sun coverage.
Role Overview
The Senior Network Engineer owns incidents escalated from Network Engineers and leads diagnosis on the most complex network issues. You perform deep troubleshooting, drive incidents to resolution within defined SLAs, determine root cause, and deliver permanent fixes that prevent recurrence. The role ensures deep technical resolution and network reliability that protects customer experience and network availability.
You act as 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. Success is measured by MTTR, root-cause closure, recurrence reduction, and runbook coverage. The role runs on a rotational shift and on-call schedule to sustain 24x7coverage.
Key Responsibilities
Escalated Incident Ownership
Own incidents escalated from Network Engineers across routing, switching, DNS, CDN, and connectivity, and drive them to resolution
Lead complex troubleshooting and deep-dive diagnosis using packet captures, flow data, routing tables, logs, and change history
Meet resolution SLA targets and provide regular, accurate updates throughout the incident lifecycle
Root-Cause Analysis & Permanent Fixes
Determine technical root cause and distinguish symptoms from underlying causes
Design and implement permanent fixes, configuration changes, and routing/peering adjustments within scope
Partner with L 3 / Engineering SMEs, carriers, and transit/peering providers on architecture-level remediation
Validate fixes through controlled change and confirm the issue does not recur before closure
Major Incident Response & Technical Leadership
Act as technical lead on major-incident (Sev-0 / Sev-1) bridges, coordinating diagnosis across towers and providers
Make and document containment, rerouting, and recovery decisions under pressure
Serve as senior escalation point and network subject-matter expert for the GIOC
Reliability, Automation & Tooling
Identify toil and recurring issues, and build automation to reduce manual effort and MTTR
Improve observability — network monitoring, alerting thresholds, flow telemetry, and dashboards — to catch issues earlier
Contribute to capacity, performance, and resilience improvements across the network estate
Drive permanent reduction of repeat incidents through engineering and process change
Knowledge, Runbooks & Mentoring
Author and maintain runbooks, SOPs, and knowledge-base articles that raise L1 first-time resolution
Mentor and coach L1 engineers; review triage quality and provide feedback
Lead knowledge transfer and shadowing during onboarding and go-live
Post-Incident Review & Continuous Improvement
Lead post-incident reviews (PIR) and root-cause write-ups with clear corrective actions
Track corrective and preventive actions to closure and measure recurrence
Surface systemic risks and drive trend-based reliability improvements
Qualifications & Experience
5-8 years of experience in network engineering, network operations, or infrastructure operations, including Senior Network Engineers escalation and root-cause ownership
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; willingness and ability to work a rotational 24x7 shift and on-call model, including nights, weekends, and holidays
Proficient in English verbal and written communication
Preferred Qualifications
ITIL V4 certification; experience with SRE or DevOps practices
Networking certification (CCNP / JNCIP or equivalent; CCIE a plus)
Experience with network automation (Ansible, Python, NETCONF/YANG) and CI/CD for network changes
Exposure to large-scale cloud networking, CDN, and GPU / high-density infrastructure
Experience with (physical) troubleshooting, including optical/transport and/or telecom troubleshooting
Prior experience as a senior escalation resource in a 24x7 NOC or command-center environment
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