About the Role
Design, deploy, and operate the network fabric for an AI cluster, covering high-performance compute and storage, tenant-facing networks, firewalling, and out-of-band infrastructure. Also responsible for the office network and acting as the company's networking authority.
Responsibilities
- Design and operate lossless, RDMA-capable fabrics for GPU compute and storage traffic, including QoS, congestion control, and buffer tuning at scale.
- Build and manage leaf-spine data centre fabrics with routed underlay and overlay design.
- Implement and maintain per-tenant network isolation across compute, storage, and management planes.
- Automate network provisioning, configuration, and validation, treating switch config as code.
- Build telemetry and observability for the fabric, including dashboards and alerting.
- Troubleshoot performance issues end to end, from optics and cabling through switch buffers to NIC/DPU configuration and host behavior.
- Operate the out-of-band management network, console access, and remote recovery paths.
- Support tenant onboarding, including segmentation, addressing, bandwidth guarantees, and capacity planning.
- Write clear design documentation capturing decisions, rationale, and rejected alternatives.
- Own and maintain the office network: wired and wireless infrastructure, firewalling, VPN/remote access, and connectivity.
- Upskill colleagues on networking through documentation, run-throughs, and pairing.
Requirements
- 5+ years as a network engineer operating production data centre networks.
- Strong dynamic routing experience (BGP in particular), plus overlay/encapsulation design and troubleshooting.
- Hands-on experience with leaf-spine / Clos fabric design and operation.
- Experience with modern data centre network operating systems and comfortable in the Linux networking stack.
- Practical RDMA fabric experience: lossless Ethernet or InfiniBand, with an understanding of why lossless behavior matters for GPU workloads.
- Network automation as a working practice: scripting, configuration management, config generation from a source of truth, version-controlled changes.
- Solid Linux administration fundamentals.
- Experience with network telemetry and monitoring.
- Experience running corporate/campus networks: wired and wireless, switching, NAC/802.1X, VPN and remote access.
- Clear communicator who enjoys teaching: able to document, pair, and run sessions that bring less network-savvy colleagues up to speed.
Skills
- RoCEv2
- InfiniBand
- QoS
- Congestion control
- Buffer tuning
- BGP
- EVPN/VXLAN
- Ansible
- Python
- NetBox
- CI
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Datadog
- Streaming telemetry
- Linux networking stack
- PFC
- ECN
- DCQCN
- Cisco Catalyst/Meraki
Location
- Office
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 5+ years
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Equity sign-on bonus
- Biannual bonus scheme
- Fully expensed tech
- Breakfast and dinner allowance for office-based employees
About the Company
- Fuse Energy is a forward-thinking renewable energy startup on a mission to deliver a terawatt of renewable energy - fast.
- We're combining first-principles thinking with cutting-edge technology to build a radically better energy system.
- We raised $210M from top-tier investors including Multicoin, Balderton, Lakestar, Accel, Creandum, Lowercarbon, Ribbit, Box Group and strategic angels like Nico Rosberg, the Co-Founder of Solana and GPs behind Meta, Revolut, Spotify, Uber and more.
