Lead AI-Powered Network Automation Engineer

Apex Systems; Jersey City (NJ); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Everforth Apex seeks a Senior Network Automation Engineer to architect and implement automation and AI-driven network diagnostics. You will build backend services in Python/Django, leverage Redis for state management, and integrate with monitoring systems to enable proactive remediation.

The role requires 8–12 years in network engineering and hands-on experience delivering AI/ML-enabled production solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field is required.
• 8–12 years of experience in network engineering, network operations, automation, telemetry, monitoring, data engineering, or applied analytics.
• Demonstrated experience delivering AI/ML-enabled solutions into production.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop network automation services for event correlation, intelligent troubleshooting, and automated remediation.
• Build automation that supports self-healing use cases and safe automated remediation actions.
• Develop backend automation services using Python and Django, with Redis for state management.
• Integrate automation services with monitoring, telemetry, and alerting systems to consume events and metrics.
• Partner with Network Operations teams to identify repeatable automation patterns.
• Ensure automation workflows include guardrails, validation, and rollback logic for production use.
• Design and productionize machine learning solutions for anomaly detection and predictive maintenance.
• Develop AI-assisted troubleshooting with large language models and retrieval augmented generation.
• Build and maintain MLOps pipelines for model validation, deployment, monitoring, and retraining.
• Create APIs and reusable services that integrate AI/ML inference with ITSM platforms.

Skills

Python

REST APIs

Workflow engines

AI/ML concepts

Troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Django

Redis

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Jupyter

MLflow

Containers

Kubernetes

pandas

NumPy

scikit-learn

Job description

Everforth Apex seeks a Senior Network Automation Engineer to architect and implement automation and AI-driven network diagnostics. You will build backend services in Python/Django, leverage Redis for state management, and integrate with monitoring systems to enable proactive remediation.

The role requires 8–12 years in network engineering and hands-on experience delivering AI/ML-enabled production solutions.