Network Automation Engineer — WAN & Edge

Mistral

France

Remote

EUR 90,000 - 130,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Mistral is seeking a Software Engineer, Network Automation - WAN & Edge to design, automate, and operate connectivity across data centers, cloud, and partners. You will own edge routing and inter-site connectivity for large-scale AI infrastructure.

The role requires hands-on WAN/edge experience, production automation via APIs, and strong software engineering fundamentals; you will collaborate with carriers, cloud providers, and vendors to improve reliability and security.

Qualifications

Hands-on WAN/edge networking across internet connectivity, DC interconnect, private WAN, or cloud networking.
Experience taking external BGP designs from whiteboard to production and debugging during incidents.
Experience with stateful firewalls, NAT, asymmetric routing, and redundant edge designs on major routing/firewall platforms.
Experience building/operating production network automation using network-management APIs and data models (REST, NETCONF, gNMI/OpenConfig, Ansible, Terraform).
Strong software-engineering fundamentals in a general-purpose language; willing to learn Go.

Responsibilities

Design and evolve resilient inter-site, cloud, and internet connectivity for large-scale AI infrastructure.
Own external BGP policy and traffic engineering at the edge, including route filtering and capacity planning.
Build API-driven automation for edge routing, firewalls, VPNs, carrier connectivity, and network segmentation.
Coordinate with carriers and cloud providers on design, provisioning, incident escalation, and service improvement.
Design safe change workflows with automated validation and resilience testing, staged rollouts, observability, rollback, and recovery.