Onsite DoD Network Automation Engineer (NetDevOps)

Zachary Piper Solutions; Norfolk (VA); Hybrid; USD 95,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Zachary Piper Solutions seeks a Network Configuration Automation Engineer for a long-term Navy enterprise network program. This 100% onsite role in Norfolk, VA focuses on maintaining secure, compliant configurations via network management systems, baselines, automation, and IaC practices.

You will develop playbooks with Ansible, Terraform, Python, and Jinja2, manage CI/CD pipelines, and ensure policy-aligned changes across large-scale networks. Active Secret clearance is required.

Qualifications

• Experience with enterprise network configuration management and network engineering.
• Experience with configuration baselines, drift, backups, rollback procedures, and automated remediation.
• Hands-on experience with network automation using Ansible, Terraform, Python, and Jinja2.
• Familiarity with NMS platforms and multi-vendor environments (Cisco, Juniper, Arista).

Responsibilities

• Establish and enforce configuration baselines for enterprise network devices.
• Monitor for configuration drift and non-compliant changes.
• Maintain backups, version history, and rollback procedures.
• Develop automated remediation to restore devices to approved configurations.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines to validate and deploy changes.
• Coordinate large-scale network patching and configuration campaigns across dispersed environments.

Skills

Network configuration management

Network engineering

Ansible

Terraform

Python

Jinja2

Git-based configuration management

CI/CD

NMS tools

Troubleshooting Tier III

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s degree

Tools

Cisco Catalyst Center

OpenText NNMi

OpenText Network Automation

Nautobot

Infoblox IPAM

GitLab CI/CD

Jenkins

Git

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Ansible

Python

Jinja2

Docker

Job description

Zachary Piper Solutions seeks a Network Configuration Automation Engineer for a long-term Navy enterprise network program. This 100% onsite role in Norfolk, VA focuses on maintaining secure, compliant configurations via network management systems, baselines, automation, and IaC practices.

You will develop playbooks with Ansible, Terraform, Python, and Jinja2, manage CI/CD pipelines, and ensure policy-aligned changes across large-scale networks. Active Secret clearance is required.