Mirantis, an IREN company, is the Kubernetes-native AI infrastructure company, enabling organizations to build and operate scalable, secure, and sovereign infrastructure for modern AI, machine learning, and data-intensive applications. Backed by Insight and Sapphire.
About the role
Mirantis is seeking a Senior Network Engineer to join our IT team in a hands-on role spanning two areas: the networking that underpins our internal AI labs, and the broader company network infrastructure. This is the second dedicated networking role on the team, working alongside our existing network engineer in Europe to scale a function that has grown well beyond what one person can carry. The role is based in Silicon Valley, with regular on-site presence expected at our local datacenter/colocation facilities. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 5+ years of experience in a Network Engineering role, with networking as the core of your background
- Strong hands-on experience designing and operating switching and routing in datacenter and/or colocation environments — spine/leaf or top-of-rack fabrics, VLANs, VXLAN/EVPN, BGP/OSPF, and structured cabling
- Solid experience with firewalls, ACLs, VPNs (site-to-site and remote access), and network segmentation. Vendor experience with the likes of Cisco, Arista, Juniper, Palo Alto, or Fortinet
- Comfortable working physically on-site in a datacenter — racking, cabling, cross-connects, and troubleshooting at the hardware level — and coordinating remote-hands or contractor work at sites without direct access
- Working knowledge of server hardware — provisioning, firmware/BMC management (iDRAC/iLO), and physical troubleshooting — with the willingness to own the compute layer alongside the network
- Experience with cloud and hybrid connectivity (AWS interconnects, VPN, SD-WAN) and how on-prem, colo, and cloud environments fit together
More about this role
Mirantis is seeking a Senior Network Engineer to join our IT team in a hands-on role spanning two areas: the networking that underpins our internal AI labs, and the broader company network infrastructure. This is the second dedicated networking role on the team, working alongside our existing network engineer in Europe to scale a function that has grown well beyond what one person can carry. The role is based in Silicon Valley, with regular on-site presence expected at our local datacenter/colocation facilities.
As Mirantis invests in AI compute, the lab environments behind it have become critical infrastructure that IT operates as a shared platform — engineering groups across the company consume them as tenants. Our job is to make that possible: high-throughput fabric for GPU and compute-intensive workloads, clean segmentation between tenants, and reliable connectivity back to corporate and cloud environments. This is a hardware-, networking-, and architecture-focused mandate — building and running the underlying infrastructure, not the AI/ML work that runs on top of it. In parallel, our day-to-day company network — offices, datacenter/colo presence, cloud interconnects, and...
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