Python-First Network Automation & Reliability Engineer

Ontrac Solutions; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Ontrac Solutions is seeking a Network Automation & Reliability Engineer to operate and automate hyperscale data center, backbone, and OOB networks. This Python-first role emphasizes writing code over CLI, building tooling, telemetry pipelines, and self-healing automation for a global data-center fleet.

You will work across Arista, Juniper, Cisco platforms, implement gNMI/OpenConfig telemetry, and own on-call responsibilities for the systems you build.

Qualifications

• Proven Python development in production networks with tooling
• Production BGP experience including policy and multihoming
• Deep routing and switching concepts on multiple vendors
• Hands-on with Arista, Juniper, or Cisco platforms
• Automation frameworks: Ansible, Jinja2, NETCONF/YANG or REST APIs
• Telemetry and observability with gNMI/OpenConfig or SNMP
• Linux on-host operations, shells, services
• Git-based CI/CD for network changes

Responsibilities

• Design, write, and maintain Python tooling for provisioning and auditing devices globally
• Develop model-driven provisioning libraries with Jinja2 and NETCONF/YANG or REST APIs
• Create automated remediation for recurring failures via telemetry and logs
• Support 24x7 on-call rotations and incident response

Skills

Python development

BGP in production

Routing & switching depth

Linux proficiency

On-call production experience

Multi-vendor hardware experience

Tools

Netmiko

NAPALM

Nornir

pyATS/Genie

Ansible

Jinja2

Git-based workflows

Job description

Ontrac Solutions is seeking a Network Automation & Reliability Engineer to operate and automate hyperscale data center, backbone, and OOB networks. This Python-first role emphasizes writing code over CLI, building tooling, telemetry pipelines, and self-healing automation for a global data-center fleet.

You will work across Arista, Juniper, Cisco platforms, implement gNMI/OpenConfig telemetry, and own on-call responsibilities for the systems you build.