Senior Network Production Operations Engineer

Crusoe

• $165K — $200K *
Technical Services
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of production network engineering experience focused on operations and incident response in large-scale environments.
  • Strong proficiency in Python and scripting for diagnostic and automation tooling.
  • Hands-on experience with observability tools like streaming telemetry, SNMP, and Grafana, including API scripting.
  • Knowledge of RDMA/RoCE lossless fabrics for GPU workloads and tuning techniques like PFC.
  • Solid understanding of BGP, EVPN-VXLAN, and other key network protocols in data centers.
  • Proficiency with Arista and Juniper platforms in multi-vendor architectures.
  • Comfortable managing large device fleets with on-call responsibilities.

Responsibilities

  • Support production reliability across Crusoe's global network infrastructure.
  • Develop Python-based automation tools to reduce operational toil and enhance response speed.
  • Participate in high-severity incident response and facilitate communication during and post-incident.
  • Conduct root cause analysis and ensure closure of remediation actions.
  • Enhance observability by building automation on existing monitoring tools.
  • Maintain runbooks, escalation documents, and standard operating procedures.
  • Collaborate with architecture and SRE teams to pursue operational excellence initiatives.

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation package
  • Restricted Stock Units included in offers
  • Generous paid time off and holidays
  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
  • Employer contributions to HSA
  • Paid parental leave and various types of insurance
  • Specialized professional development and tuition reimbursement
  • Mental health and wellness programs
  • Commuter benefits for parking and transit
  • Cell phone stipend for communication expenses
  • 401(k) plan with company match up to 4%
  • Volunteer time off to support community engagement.
Full Job Description
About This Role:
Crusoe Cloud is seeking a Senior Network Production Operations Engineer to support production reliability across our global network infrastructure, including edge, backbone, data center fabric, and GPU cluster interconnects. This is a hands-on production role focused on incident response, root cause analysis, and automation-driven operational execution that keeps our hyperscale AI infrastructure running at scale. Your work will directly affect the availability of AI workloads running across thousands of GPUs worldwide.

The ideal candidate is an experienced network engineer with solid operational experience in large-scale environments who thrives in high-pressure situations and takes pride in keeping systems healthy. You'll build automation to reduce operational toil, execute on established SLIs and SLOs, contribute to observability tooling, and serve as a responder during high-severity network events.

What You'll Be Working On:
  • Production Reliability: Support uptime across Crusoe's global edge, backbone, data center, and GPU cluster network, directly supporting AI workloads at scale.
  • Operational Automation: Write and maintain Python-based tooling to reduce toil, automate common remediation workflows, and speed up mean time to resolution across the operations org.
  • Incident Response: Participate in high-severity network events - detection, triage, mitigation - and contribute to stakeholder communication and postmortem documentation.
  • Root Cause Analysis: Perform RCAs using existing and newly built tooling, and help drive remediation items to closure.
  • Observability: Build automation on top of Crusoe's monitoring stack (streaming telemetry, SNMP, NetFlow, Kentik, Grafana, Prometheus, ThousandEyes) to reduce manual triage and surface actionable signal faster.
  • Operational Standards: Maintain and improve runbooks, escalation playbooks, and SOPs, flagging opportunities for scripting or automation.
  • SLI/SLO Execution: Help build and maintain the automated dashboards and alerting that back reliability metrics, in partnership with Architecture and SRE teams.
  • Collaboration: Work closely with Architecture and SRE teams to execute on operational excellence initiatives and improve day-to-day practices.


What You'll Bring to the Team:
  • 5+ years of production network engineering experience with a focus on operations, incident response, and reliability in large-scale or internet-scale environments.
  • Strong Python and scripting proficiency: comfortable writing diagnostic tooling and automation scripts, and extending existing automation pipelines.
  • Hands-on experience with observability and monitoring tools including streaming telemetry, SNMP, NetFlow/sFlow, Grafana, Prometheus, and ThousandEyes, and the ability to script against their APIs.
  • Experience operating RDMA/RoCE lossless fabrics for GPU or HPC workloads, including familiarity with PFC, ECN, and DCQCN tuning.
  • Solid hands-on knowledge of BGP, EVPN-VXLAN, IS-IS, OSPF, MPLS, QoS, and TCP/IP in production data center environments.
  • Proficiency with Arista (EOS) and Juniper (Junos) platforms in leaf-spine CLOS architectures across multi-vendor environments.
  • Comfort operating large device fleets across multi-region environments with on-call responsibility.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.


Bonus Points:
  • Experience with NVIDIA/Mellanox networking platforms in GPU cluster environments.
  • Familiarity with Kentik or Arbor for traffic analysis and DDoS visibility.
  • Exposure to contributing to SLIs and SLOs alongside SRE or product teams.
  • Exposure to operating 10K+ device fleets across hyperscale or cloud environments.


Benefits:
  • Competitive compensation
  • Restricted Stock Units
  • Paid time off & paid holidays
  • Comprehensive health, dental & vision insurance
  • Employer contributions to HSA account
  • Paid parental leave
  • Paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability
  • Professional development & tuition reimbursement
  • Mental health & wellness support
  • Commuter benefits (parking & transit)
  • Cell phone stipend
  • 401(k) Retirement plan with company match up to 4% of salary
  • Volunteer time off


Compensation Range:

Compensation will be paid in the range of $165,000 - $200,000 plus Bonus. Restricted Stock Units are included in all offers. Compensation to be determined by the applicant's education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.

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