Network Site Reliability Engineer

NVIDIA NVIDIA · Semiconductors · Santa Clara, CA

NVIDIA is seeking a seasoned Technical SRE lead for their Enterprise Network Support and SRE team. The role focuses on actualizing the SRE vision for network infrastructure, emphasizing user experience, troubleshooting, network automation, observability, documentation, and operational excellence. The SRE will work to minimize manual labor, achieve SLOs, conduct RCAs, and proactively mitigate network risks. The position involves owning operational aspects, partnering with architecture, advocating for automation, monitoring performance, resolving production issues, and identifying operational improvements.

What you'd actually do

  1. Owning the operational aspect of the network infrastructure, ensuring its high availability and reliability.
  2. Partnering with architecture and deployment teams to guarantee that new implementations are supportable and align with production standards.
  3. Advocating for and implementing automation to reduce toil and enhance operational efficiency.
  4. Monitoring network performance, identifying areas for improvement, and coordinating with relevant teams to execute enhancements.
  5. Collaborating with SMEs to resolve production issues swiftly and effectively, maintaining customer satisfaction.

Skills

Required

  • BS 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.
  • Familiarity with network management tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Alert Manager, Nautobot/Netbox, BigPanda
  • Expertise in automating networks using frameworks such as Salt, Ansible, or similar.
  • In depth experience in one or more of the following: Python, Go.
  • Knowledge in network technologies such as TCP/UDP, IPv4/IPv6, Wireless, BGP, VPN, L2 switching, Firewalls, Load Balancers, EVPN, VxLAN, Segment Routing.
  • Proven track record in network operations.
  • Skills with ServiceNow and Jira

Nice to have

  • Knowledge of Linux system fundamentals is a plus.
  • Track record of taking operational signals through means such as SNMP, Syslog, Streaming Telemetry to solve operational challenges
  • History of debugging and optimizing code; automating routine tasks.
  • Experience with Mellanox/Cumulus Linux, Palo Alto firewalls, Netscalers and F5 load balancers
  • Previous SRE experience

What the JD emphasized

  • 8+ years of industry experience in network site reliability engineering, network automation, network operations, or related areas.