Senior Network Engineer

Alembic • Dunwoody, GA

3d • $210,000 - $240,000

About The Position

Alembic is hiring a Senior Network Engineer to build and operate the infrastructure behind its high-performance AI systems. The role owns the global network and reliability layer supporting distributed compute, machine learning workloads, real-time analytics, and mission-critical enterprise infrastructure. It spans networking, systems, automation, observability, and reliability engineering, with an emphasis on performance, security, resilience, and operational scale.

The engineer will help shape architecture decisions, automate repetitive operations, and improve the reliability and performance of Alembic’s network and cloud infrastructure. The position works across engineering and data science teams and includes network operations, incident response, capacity planning, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

• At least 8 years of experience in network engineering or infrastructure engineering roles.
• At least 5 years of experience with datacenter operations and/or system and network administration.
• Strong background in network security, architecture, design, and operations.
• Extensive experience managing network devices such as firewalls, switches, and load balancers.
• Extensive experience with large-scale network architectures and protocols, including BGP, QoS, MPLS, and IPsec VPNs.
• Experience designing and operating modern datacenter network fabrics, including spine-leaf, EVPN/VXLAN, and ECMP.
• Experience with network automation frameworks and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Ansible, Terraform, or Nornir, or similar technologies.
• Experience with IPAM/DCIM platforms such as NetBox or Infoblox, or similar systems.
• Experience with WAN engineering, carrier circuit provisioning, and external network peering.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes networking concepts, including CNI plugins, ingress, service networking, and network policy.
• Strong operational experience with Linux-based production infrastructure.
• Experience with monitoring and observability stacks such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK, or OpenTelemetry.
• Good programming skills and ability to apply sound coding principles to scripting with Bash and/or Python.
• Ability to debug complex network and system issues and automate solutions in scripting languages.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work cross-functionally.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with NVIDIA networking technologies such as Cumulus Linux, InfiniBand, Spectrum-X, and BlueField DPUs.
• Familiarity with data-intensive platforms such as Spark, Airflow, and Kafka, and data storage network protocols such as NFS, LustreFS, and iSCSI.
• Experience with security practices for applications and infrastructure.
• Experience in high-compliance or SOC-2 environments.

Responsibilities

• Architect and operate scalable network architecture to support high security requirements and machine learning workloads.
• Own and manage network device configuration management, ensuring consistency and reliability.
• Improve system and network reliability and performance through automation, observability, and proactive capacity planning.
• Implement and manage complex network protocols, including BGP and VPN configuration.
• Engineer and manage WAN circuits and external connectivity.
• Implement and maintain network monitoring, alerting, and incident response processes, including SLOs, runbooks, and on-call rotations.
• Collaborate with engineering and data science teams to promote performance and reliability.
• Ensure security, compliance, and operational readiness across network and cloud infrastructure.
• Drive post-incident analysis and continuous improvement initiatives.

Benefits

• Ownership of mission-critical network and infrastructure at a company solving real-world enterprise problems.
• A front-row seat to a high-performance engineering culture.
• The ability to influence how the network scales, from architecture to incident management.
• An environment that values curiosity, accountability, and impact.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed