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title: 'AI Operations Engineer at IP Fabric'
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# AI Operations Engineer at IP Fabric

- **Company:** IP Fabric
- **Location:** Prague, Czech Republic
- **Posted:** 2026-10-28
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-29
- **Apply:** https://ipfabric.io/jobs-listing/?gh_jid=5010287101

## Job description

## About IP Fabric

Join a pioneering force in network automation!

At IP Fabric, we enable people to uncover the truth about their networks. Built by network professionals and industry experts, our innovative solutions are transforming how enterprises manage their networks. As a post-Series B company, we're expanding rapidly across Europe, the U.S., and beyond.

## About The Role

IP Fabric runs its own AI Gateway: the single access point through which every engineer in the company uses AI models, from commercial APIs to open-source models we’d like to host ourselves. We are looking for an AI Ops Engineer to own it, and to make our codebase AI ready.

You will add new models to the Gateway, including self-hosted open-source models and large models served by third parties. You will keep AI usage and spend visible across all our tools and reduce cost with model routing and context compression. Alongside this, you will improve how our repositories work with AI agents: skills, agent instructions, linters, speed of our CI/CD pipelines and CI guardrails.

You will work in a small AI team reporting to Mehmet Ekmekci, together with our AI Enablement team. You will also advise colleagues across the company and work with IT, Finance, and Legal on security and data governance. We are looking for a builder: someone who takes a problem end to end, whether that means a Python service, frontend code for a dashboard, or an infrastructure change. Strong production engineering is the foundation for this role, and you should already use AI coding tools in your daily work.

What You’ll Do

- Own the AI Gateway: follow new releases, ship fixes and features, and keep it reliable for the whole company.
- Deploy and serve open-source models, and connect third-party hosted models through the Gateway when they are too large for our infrastructure. Follow developments in the model landscape and recommend what to adopt.
- Aggregate AI spend across our tools, build dashboards on top of the Gateway, and reduce cost through model routing and context compression.
- Make our repositories agent-ready: write and maintain skills and agent instruction files (AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md), improve linters and CI guardrails, and add capabilities to our software factory.
- Support engineers in using AI tools effectively and improve the AI developer experience.
- Work with IT, Finance, and Legal to follow good security and data-governance practices.
- Contribute to AI features in the IP Fabric product together with the AI team.

## What You'll Need

- Professional experience building and maintaining production software, with sound design, testing, and debugging skills. Python is our main backend language.
- A builder mindset: you are comfortable working across the stack, including frontend code for dashboards and internal tools, and infrastructure and deployment changes.
- Experience deploying and operating services in production: containers, CI/CD, and observability.
- Daily, hands-on use of AI coding agents such as Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex, and a clear view of what they do well and where they fail.
- Practical experience integrating APIs and handling authentication, rate limits, and failures across system boundaries.
- You keep up with AI developments and form your own opinions about new models and tools.
- Clear written and spoken English, including the ability to explain technical choices to people outside engineering

Bonus points if you have

- Experience serving LLMs (vLLM, Ollama, TGI) and sizing GPU infrastructure.
- Experience with LLM gateways or proxies (LiteLLM, Portkey, or similar) and model routing.
- Experience with usage and cost analytics.
- Frontend experience (for example React and TypeScript) for internal tools and dashboards.
- Experience building MCP servers, agent skills, or agent workflows.
- Awareness of security and data-governance requirements (SOC 2, ISO 27001).

Level and growth

We are considering candidates at L2 and L3. At L2, you will own the AI Gateway and agentic-readiness work, with support on prioritisation and on cross-company governance topics. At L3, you will also lead those conversations with IT, Finance, and Legal yourself and set the technical direction within your area.

At either level, you stay responsible for the usefulness and maintainability of what you build. Your scope grows as you show dependable delivery and sound judgement.

## Benefits & Perks

- 25 days of holidays + 5 flexi-days.
- Pluxee Flexi Card (up to 16 000 CZK per year).
- Anniversary rewards.
- Collaboration with diverse, international teams.
- A pet-friendly office at IP Pavlova.
- Complementary and yummy snacks, coffee, brew and refreshments.
- Regular team and company events.

Join us to experience the unique culture of a founder-led startup, where from top to bottom everyone is hands-on and has a chance to make a tangible impact on influential enterprises worldwide. Being part of IP Fabric means being part of a flexible environment that prioritizes work-life balance and growth opportunities.

## About IP Fabric

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: IP Fabric provides an automated network assurance platform that creates a digital twin of an enterprise’s entire network and cloud infrastructure to improve stability, security, and compliance.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B, raised $30.6M total)
- **Headquarters**: Boston, Massachusetts, United States (with major offices in Prague, Czech Republic, and London, UK)
- **Founded**: 2015
- **Founders**: Pavel Bykov (CEO), Radek Drbala (Head of Finance & Operations), Petr Podrouzek (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Network Assurance, Network Automation, IT Infrastructure & Security
- **Target customers**: B2B; large-scale enterprise IT and network operations teams, managed service providers, and organizations with complex multi-vendor network environments
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “To make network assurance ubiquitous to create a stable, secure, agile, and resource-conscious digital future.”

## Products & Services
- **IP Fabric Network Digital Twin Platform**: A SaaS-like platform (deployed on-prem or in-cloud) that uses read-only SSH/API access to discover 100% of network devices, connections, and configurations. It creates an interactive, continuously validated digital twin of the entire network estate, uncovering risks, vulnerabilities, and compliance gaps that other tools miss. Core use cases include:
    - **Network Automation Foundation**: Provides standardized, vendor-agnostic data to drive automation tools (Ansible, ServiceNow, etc.) and validates changes pre- and post-implementation.
    - **Regulatory Compliance Readiness**: Automates the generation of audit evidence for standards like PCI-DSS, SOC2, etc.
    - **De-risking Digital Transformation**: Validates network behavior during migrations, cloud onboarding, and major changes.
    - **Closed-Loop Automation**: Integrates with tools like Splunk, Grafana, NetBox, Nautobot, and more via an open API.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: 
    - **Annual Revenue**: $1.0M (per LinkedIn data; note this may be an estimate and not official)
    - **Total Funding**: $30.6M across 4 rounds.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: 
    - **Lead Investor (Series B, June 2023)**: One Peak ($25.1M round)
    - **Previous Investors**: Presto Ventures, Senovo, Credo Ventures, Bolt Start Up Development, TechSquare.
    - **Key Partners/Integrations**: Splunk, Grafana, NetBox, Nautobot, Ansible, ServiceNow, Red Hat.
- **Growth Signals**: 
    - Recently closed a $25.1M Series B round in mid-2023, signaling strong investor confidence and scaling ambitions.
    - Trusted by industry leaders including Red Hat, Major League Baseball, Air France, and Air Bank.
    - Global presence with employees in 11 countries (Czechia, US, UK, Germany, Slovakia, Poland, and more).
    - Active job postings (6 open roles) with a yearly increase of +100% in listings.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Vendor-Neutral & 100% Coverage**: Unlike many network tools, IP Fabric discovers the entire multi-vendor, on-prem, cloud, and hybrid environment, not just a portion. It fills the 20-40% visibility gap that other monitoring tools miss.
- **Digital Twin & Validation**: Provides a live, interactive model of the network state and behavior, enabling pre- and post-change validation that prevents outages and configuration drift.
- **No SNMP, No Agent**: Uses read-only CLI/API access, making it secure and easy to deploy without impacting network performance.
- **API-First & Extensible**: Open API and pre-built integrations allow it to slot into existing workflows, acting as the “source of truth” for automation, compliance, and security tools.
- **Pricing Model**: Licensed per active device (not per seat), incentivizing broad deployment without seat-license friction.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling Go-to-Market**: With Series B funding, IP Fabric is aggressively expanding its sales and marketing presence, particularly in the DACH region and across EMEA.
- **Deepening Automation & Compliance**: Building out closed-loop automation capabilities and regulatory compliance features to become the standard for network governance.
- **Growing the Platform Ecosystem**: Increasing integrations with popular IT, security, and automation tools to make the digital twin the central nervous system of network operations.
- **Product-Led Growth**: Emphasizing a quick time-to-value (minutes to deploy) and a freemium/trial model to drive adoption.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Values**: The company is built on values of **Accountability**, **Customer Centricity**, **Innovation**, **Inclusion**, and **Continuous Learning**. They actively foster a diverse, open environment where different ideas are respected.
- **Remote/Hybrid Policy**: Flexible, remote-friendly setups, with many roles open to remote work across the Czech Republic and the EU.
- **Benefits**: Competitive PTO, a wellbeing program, anniversary rewards, and a supportive, collaborative atmosphere.
- **Engineering Culture**: Emphasis on “self-driving networks” and building the future of network automation. Engineers work with cutting-edge tech (network models, APIs, automation stacks) on a platform that is fundamental to enterprise IT stability.
- **Global Team**: A diverse team across 11 countries, with a flat-ish structure and a strong sense of ownership and accountability.
- **Growth Trajectory**: A well-funded Series B company with strong revenue growth and a clear mission. Employees have the chance to grow with the company as it scales.

## Sources
1. [ipfabric.io](https://ipfabric.io/company/about-us/)
2. [ipfabric.io](https://ipfabric.io/careers/)
3. [ipfabric.io](https://ipfabric.io/)
4. [LinkedIn Profile](https://www.linkedin.com/company/ip-fabric)
5. [ipfabric.io](https://ipfabric.io/jobs-listing/)

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