Network Automation Product Manager

Jobtailor; Illinois; On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor in the United States (Illinois) seeks a Senior/Advanced Product Manager to lead secure automation roadmaps across network environments and translate operational challenges into scalable automation initiatives.

You will partner with network engineering, security, and compliance teams to design governance-aligned workflows, drive adoption of network-as-code, and ensure compliance with regulatory frameworks.

Qualifications

• 6 to 9+ years of relevant experience for Senior Product Manager candidates.
• 10+ years of relevant experience for Advanced Product Manager candidates.
• Proven background in network engineering, including routing, switching, firewalls, segmentation, VPN services, and software-defined networking.
• Hands-on expertise with automation frameworks such as Ansible, Terraform, and Python.
• Strong understanding of zero-trust architecture, secure API access, credential vaulting, and related security patterns.
• Familiarity with industry security and compliance frameworks such as NIST, FedRAMP, CMMC, and ISO 27001.
• Experience working in regulated or high-security environments (e.g., finance, defense, healthcare, government).
• Demonstrated experience owning a product roadmap and driving technical initiatives from concept through delivery.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence across engineering, security, compliance, and leadership teams.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the product roadmap for secure automation across network environments.
• Identify and translate operational challenges into measurable automation initiatives.
• Establish and track KPIs such as automation coverage, change success rate, compliance adherence, and MTTR improvements.
• Partner with network engineering, security, and compliance teams to design automation workflows that meet stringent governance and audit standards.
• Ensure automation designs align with change-control processes, rollback requirements, and regulatory frameworks.
• Oversee the development and evolution of network-as-code, intent-based networking, and policy-driven automation platforms.
• Collaborate with architects, engineers, security partners, and risk stakeholders to ensure alignment on technical design, compliance expectations, and implementation priorities.
• Champion a culture of safe experimentation, enabling teams to validate automation in sandbox environments before production rollout.

Skills

Network Engineering

Automation Frameworks

Zero-Trust Architecture

Product Roadmap Ownership

Stakeholder Management

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

Python

Job description

• Define and maintain the product roadmap for secure automation across network environments.


• Identify and translate operational challenges into measurable automation initiatives.


• Establish and track KPIs such as automation coverage, change success rate, compliance adherence, and MTTR improvements.


• Partner with network engineering, security, and compliance teams to design automation workflows that meet stringent governance and audit standards.


• Ensure automation designs align with change-control processes, rollback requirements, and regulatory frameworks.


• Oversee the development and evolution of network-as-code, intent-based networking, and policy-driven automation platforms.


• Collaborate with architects, engineers, security partners, and risk stakeholders to ensure alignment on technical design, compliance expectations, and implementation priorities.


• Champion a culture of safe experimentation, enabling teams to validate automation in sandbox environments before production rollout.

Requirements

• 6 to 9+ years of relevant experience for Senior Product Manager candidates


• 10+ years of relevant experience for Advanced Product Manager candidates


• Proven background in network engineering, including routing, switching, firewalls, segmentation, VPN services, and software-defined networking.


• Hands-on expertise with automation frameworks such as Ansible, Terraform, and Python.


• Strong understanding of zero-trust architecture, secure API access, credential vaulting, and related security patterns.


• Familiarity with industry security and compliance frameworks such as NIST, FedRAMP, CMMC, and ISO 27001.


• Experience working in regulated or high-security environments (e.g., finance, defense, healthcare, government).


• Demonstrated experience owning a product roadmap and driving technical initiatives from concept through delivery.


• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence across engineering, security, compliance, and leadership teams.

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in defining product roadmaps for secure automation, with a strong focus on network engineering, automation frameworks, and compliance adherence. Proven ability to collaborate across teams to drive technical initiatives and ensure alignment with security and regulatory standards.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Network Engineering


• Automation Frameworks


• Zero-Trust Architecture


• Product Roadmap Ownership


• Stakeholder Management

ATS Optimization Keywords

Hard Skills

• Routing


• Switching


• Firewalls


• Segmentation


• VPN Services


• Software-Defined Networking


• Ansible


• Terraform


• Python


• KPI Tracking

Soft Skills

• Strong Communication


• Influencing Skills

Industry Keywords

• NIST


• FedRAMP


• CMMC


• ISO 27001


• Regulated Environments


• High-Security Environments