Senior Network Automation Engineer

Senior Network Automation Engineer Verda is reimagining cloud infrastructure for AI workloads. We're building one of Europe's next-generation AI cloud platforms from the ground up, designing, deploying, and operating GPU infrastructure for large-scale AI training and inference. About the role As our Senior Network Automation Engineer, you'll define the automation platform that powers Verda's AI networking infrastructure. Rather than maintaining legacy systems, you'll build the tooling, data models, and automation frameworks that every future deployment will rely on. This is an automation-first role. While a solid understanding of networking is essential, your primary craft is software engineering. You'll design production-grade systems that translate network intent into scalable, automated operations across a modern multi-vendor environment including Arista, Nokia, Juniper, SONiC, and NVIDIA-based platforms. Your responsibilities You will own the source-of-truth strategy and automation platform that underpins our network infrastructure. This includes designing scalable data models for sites, fabrics, addressing, interfaces, and deployment intent, and building automation that turns those models into provisioning workflows, configuration generation, deployment artifacts, and operational tooling. You will develop multi-vendor onboarding and zero-touch provisioning (ZTP) workflows, build validation and compliance tooling integrated with CI/CD pipelines, and help evolve our infrastructure-as-code approach. You will also design and operate our telemetry platform, building streaming telemetry pipelines, metrics collection, dashboards, and health monitoring that provide consistent visibility across our network fleet. Your key competencies 5–7+ years of experience in software, infrastructure, or platform engineering Strong Python skills and software engineering fundamentals Experience with network modeling and source-of-truth platforms such as NetBox (DCIM/IPAM) Experience building infrastructure automation using Git-based workflows and CI/CD Familiarity with modern network telemetry and metrics platforms Good understanding of datacenter networking concepts and protocols Ability to design scalable systems that bridge software engineering and network infrastructure Nice to have Experience with automation frameworks such as Ansible, Nornir, or Netmiko Experience with Arista, Juniper, Nokia, SONiC, or NVIDIA networking platforms Experience with VictoriaMetrics, Prometheus, Grafana, or similar observability platforms Familiarity with gNMI, OpenTelemetry, or SNMP Experience with NVIDIA NetQ, UFM, or similar fabric management platforms Practicalities Location: Helsinki, Finland (3 days per week in the office) or Remote within the EU Employment type: Full-time and permanent What's next We're building fast and this role needs the right person behind it. There's no artificial deadline, but when we find who we're looking for, we move. If this sounds like your next move, apply now. Please submit your application through our Careers page. We don't accept applications sent by email. Department Research & Development Role Network Engineer Locations Helsinki, EU Remote status Hybrid About Verda Verda (formerly DataCrunch) is a technology company building the next generation of cloud infrastructure for AI – compute that's instant, on-demand and at scale. Headquartered in Helsinki, the company operates globally across Europe, the US and Asia. Verda employs over 100 people from nearly 30 nationalities and has raised over $200M in total funding from investors including Lifeline Ventures, byFounders, J12 Ventures, Skaala, Varma and Tesi, alongside leading financial institutions.