Network Automation Engineer

BlueAlly; United States; Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

BlueAlly is seeking a Network Automation Engineer with at least 8 years of experience. This role requires onsite attendance during the first week and quarterly thereafter. The engineer will support various technical projects, contributing their expertise and ensuring adherence to quality standards.

Ideal candidates will have experience in scripting and tooling, like Ansible and Terraform, and must possess a CCNP or dual CCNA certification. Strong documentation skills and client-facing experience are essential.

Qualifications

• 8 years of relevant engineering experience in a client-facing environment.
• Deep experience in Network Automation scripting.
• Ability to create technical written documentation independently.

Responsibilities

• Support technical projects as a mid- to senior-level team member.
• Provide engineering support across multiple projects.
• Contribute to quality and compliance standards.

Skills

US Citizenship or Green Card holder

Network Automation scripting and tooling

Technical documentation skills

Project Management support

Expertise in Ansible

Expertise in Terraform

Client-facing expertise

Ability to lead technical discussions

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

CCNP or dual CCNA level certification

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

NetBox

Job description

At BlueAlly, our mission is to make technology more accessible, more certain, and more impactful for every organization.

From cloud to cybersecurity, infrastructure to application modernization, we thrive on cutting-edge technologies and services. Elevate the impact of technology across your enterprise with world-class expertise that produces game‑changing insights. Turn complex decisions into clear opportunities with a trusted guide to technology that ensures the next digital advance will be your decisive advantage. Trade IT complexity for capability with solutions that elevate possibilities and advance with certainty, knowing you have BlueAlly as your ally next. BlueAlly. Conquer Complexity.

As an Network Automation Engineer the person is expected to participate as a mid to senior team member on technical projects. The person is expected to have deep experience and knowledge in their area of expertise with around 8 years of experience in the field.

Onsite attendance is required during the first week. Thereafter, candidates should be willing to attend onsite quarterly (one day per quarter or consolidated multi-day visits).

Responsibilities

• Supports projects as a mid‑to‑senior team member with direction from a project lead and complies with the BlueAlly quality of delivering services
• May be part of a bigger delivery team and lead specific areas of a project related to the person’s expertise
• Provide engineering support and technical expertise across multiple projects aligned with client needs.
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives and help ensure adherence to quality and compliance standards.
• Ability to create technical written documentation independently and to deliver briefings to client stakeholders in a roundtable setting in areas relating to the person’s expertise
• Escalation of project impacting issues to the Delivery Directors or other appropriate leadership

Position Requirements

• US Citizenship or Greencard holder status required by contract
• 8 years of relevant engineering experience, ideally in a client‑facing or project‑driven environment.
• Expertise in a technical area with direction from senior technical leadership on specific tasks
• Able to support parts of sales support activities if/as necessary
• Provides support in Project Management requirements
• Often independent but with consistent checkpoints. Tasked by another to undertake specific technical activities.
• Deep experience in 1 technical area, developing breadth across 1+ additional areas
• Aware of specific client business requirements and how technical solutions being implemented support those requirements.
• Some experience and understanding specific to 1+ industries where the employee has worked
• Recognizes and can explain the business benefits their technical solution provides, short of quantifying those benefits.
• Able to create technical written documents (e.g., RFP response content, detail design and deployment deliverables) against specific topics/assignments independently and with few grammatical mistakes.
• Able to support, with guidance, the creation and delivery of select presentation content on specific technologies with which they have experience. Can deliver briefings to technical‑to‑mid level client stakeholders in a roundtable setting.
• Understands the need for project and financial information to be compared and aligned to forecast(s).
• Recognizes and acts independently on the different billing objectives by project type (T&M, FFP, Managed Services)
• Consistently maintains one’s own forecast on respective efforts. Mentors more junior members in doing the same.
• Experience with Network Automation scripting and tooling. Examples: Ansible, Terraform, NetBox, and others.

Education

• One CCNP level certification or dual CCNA level certifications desired. Alternates could include but are not limited to VCAP, JNCIS, CCSE, or PCNSE (as examples).
• Two+ certifications at the next level below these with hands‑on experience behind each desired.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

BlueAlly is committed to equal employment opportunity for all employees and providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at BlueAlly are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion, or belief, national, social, or ethnic origin, sex, age, disability, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate.