Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Fluidstack is focused on delivering compute infrastructure for AI to enhance human freedom. The Network Deployment Engineer will deploy and validate data center network infrastructure, ensuring connectivity meets production standards and managing hardware logistics while collaborating with various teams.
Responsibilities
- Deploy and validate data center network infrastructure (front-end, back-end, BMS, management): configure switches, install and validate optics, coordinate cabling, and drive deployments to completion
- Ensure physical connectivity meets production standards: coordinate fiber remediation, validate insertion loss and OTDR traces, troubleshoot optical-layer issues, and document as-builts
- Manage hardware logistics: device staging, rack/stack coordination, RMA, DCIM updates, inventory, and vendor shipments so devices are ready when deployments need them
- Partner with DC Operations, ICT, Hardware, and Network Engineering to identify blockers early, escalate decisively, and keep multi-team efforts on track
- Maintain cutsheets, as-builts, validation results, and lessons learned, and contribute to the deployment playbook that lets the team scale
- Provide operational support during and after deployments: incident response, troubleshooting, and break-fix
Skills
- Hands-on data center network engineering experience
- Understanding of modern fabrics (EVPN/VXLAN, BGP, CLOS)
- Experience configuring production infrastructure
- Comfortable pulling cable, configuring switches, and troubleshooting the optical layer
- Methodical troubleshooting across physical and logical layers: OTDR traces, insertion loss, BGP sessions, and connectivity through complex topologies
- Clear communication across technical and non-technical teams
- Good documentation skills
- Ability to follow through on tasks
- Fast learner and ownership of ramping on new technology
- Willingness to travel 50 to 60% for onsite deployments
- AI fabric turn-up experience
- Configuration management and automation tooling
- Vendor certifications
Benefits
- Offers Equity
- Retirement or pension plan, in line with local norms.
- Health, dental, and vision insurance.
- Generous PTO policy, in line with local norms.
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