Cloud Networking Automation Engineer

Alkira; San Jose (CA); Hybrid; USD 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Alkira, a Lumen company, is seeking a Software Engineer for the Datapath team to turn customer intent into live, multi-cloud networks. You’ll work across Ansible, Python, Go, and the data path, located in San Jose with hybrid onsite Tuesdays and Thursdays.

You’ll build Go engines, Python tooling, and Ansible playbooks, extend configuration models, and ensure fast, reliable connectivity across clouds. On-call rotation and collaboration with Routing, Data Path, and Backend teams are part of the

Qualifications

• Hands-on coding in at least one of C, Python, or Go.
• Comfort on Linux and networking fundamentals.
• Ability to debug and solve production provisioning issues.
• Willingness to participate in an on-call rotation.

Responsibilities

• Automate the cloud provisioning with Ansible across AWS, Azure and GCP.
• Develop Go task engines to push configuration at scale.
• Integrate new VNFs and light up new services.
• Build Python tooling and CLI for inspecting and configuring the stack.
• Extend the configuration and task models for provisioning workflows.
• Keep connectivity fast, correct, and reliable across clouds.
• Collaborate with Routing, Data Path, and Backend teams on end-to-end flows.

Skills

Go programming

Python programming

C programming

Linux familiarity

Networking basics

Problem solving

Tools

Ansible

CLI tooling

Go

AWS/Azure/GCP

Job description

Alkira, a Lumen company, is seeking a Software Engineer for the Datapath team to turn customer intent into live, multi-cloud networks. You’ll work across Ansible, Python, Go, and the data path, located in San Jose with hybrid onsite Tuesdays and Thursdays.

You’ll build Go engines, Python tooling, and Ansible playbooks, extend configuration models, and ensure fast, reliable connectivity across clouds. On-call rotation and collaboration with Routing, Data Path, and Backend teams are part of the