Onsite Network Automation Engineer (Navy NetDevOps)

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

Job summary

Zachary Piper Solutions is seeking a Network Configuration Automation Engineer to support a long-term DoD program focused on Navy enterprise network infrastructure, configuration management, network automation, and NetDevOps. This position is 100% onsite in Norfolk, VA.

The successful candidate will maintain configuration baselines, monitor drift, implement automated remediation, and develop playbooks using Ansible, Terraform, Python, and Jinja2. Active Secret clearance is required.

Qualifications

• Active Secret clearance is required.
• 5–10 years of relevant experience with a Bachelor’s degree, or 4–8 years with a Master’s degree.
• Hands-on experience with enterprise network configuration management and drift control.
• Strong knowledge of BGP, OSPF, VLANs, VRFs, ACLs, SSH, SNMP.

Responsibilities

• Establish, maintain, and enforce approved configuration baselines for network devices.
• Monitor drift and identify unauthorized or non-compliant changes.
• Maintain backups, version history, and rollback procedures for resiliency.
• Develop automated remediation to restore devices to approved configurations.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines to deploy network configuration changes.
• Coordinate large-scale configuration changes across teams and time zones.

Skills

Network configuration management

Automation scripting

CI/CD practices

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

Cisco Catalyst Center

OpenText NNMi

OpenText Network Automation

Git-based config mgmt

Job description

Zachary Piper Solutions is seeking a Network Configuration Automation Engineer to support a long-term DoD program focused on Navy enterprise network infrastructure, configuration management, network automation, and NetDevOps. This position is 100% onsite in Norfolk, VA.

The successful candidate will maintain configuration baselines, monitor drift, implement automated remediation, and develop playbooks using Ansible, Terraform, Python, and Jinja2. Active Secret clearance is required.