Onsite Network Automation Engineer - Navy NetDevOps

Piper Companies; Norfolk (VA); On-site; USD 95,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401k Plan

Holidays

Job summary

Zachary Piper Solutions seeks a Network Configuration Automation Engineer to support a long-term DoD program focused on Navy enterprise network infrastructure, configuration management, and NetDevOps. This is 100% onsite in Norfolk, VA, with responsibility for baselines, drift monitoring, backups, and automated remediation.

The role requires active Secret clearance, hands-on experience with network automation, NMS platforms, and IaC tools like Ansible and Terraform, plus strong CI/CD practices.

Qualifications

• Active Secret clearance required.
• 5–10 years of relevant network experience or 4–8 years with a Master’s degree.
• Hands-on experience with enterprise network configuration management and engineering.

Responsibilities

• Establish, maintain, and enforce configuration baselines for enterprise network devices.
• Monitor for configuration drift and enforce compliance across devices.
• Develop automated remediation to restore devices to approved configurations.
• Maintain backups, version history, and rollback procedures for resiliency.
• Build and manage CI/CD pipelines to validate and deploy network configuration changes.
• Provide Tier III troubleshooting for complex network issues and perform root cause analysis.

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

Python

Jinja2

Git

NMS

Job description

Zachary Piper Solutions seeks a Network Configuration Automation Engineer to support a long-term DoD program focused on Navy enterprise network infrastructure, configuration management, and NetDevOps. This is 100% onsite in Norfolk, VA, with responsibility for baselines, drift monitoring, backups, and automated remediation.

The role requires active Secret clearance, hands-on experience with network automation, NMS platforms, and IaC tools like Ansible and Terraform, plus strong CI/CD practices.