Senior Enterprise Network Automation Engineer

Ares Management Corporation; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

401(k) with company match

HSA & FSA

Job summary

Ares Management Corporation is seeking an experienced Enterprise Network Engineer to design, implement, and automate our global network across campuses, data centers, cloud, and WAN environments. You will build resilient routing, switching and SD-WAN while leveraging Cisco, Meraki and Palo Alto networks to secure architectures.

You will develop Terraform modules, Ansible playbooks, Python tooling, and CI/CD workflows, enabling repeatable deployments and strong governance with rollback

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Telecommunications, or a related discipline.
• CCNP, CCIE, or equivalent expert-level networking experience preferred.
• Microsoft Azure or Palo Alto Networks certification preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and automate enterprise network infrastructure across global offices, data centers, cloud, and WAN environments.
• Engineer resilient routing, switching, SD-WAN, wireless, and hybrid cloud connectivity using Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, Meraki, and Microsoft Azure.
• Develop reusable Terraform modules, Ansible playbooks, Python tooling, and API integrations for network and security platforms.
• Build Git-based CI/CD workflows with code review, automated validation, approvals, deployment controls, and rollback capability.
• Design and operate Palo Alto Networks firewalls and secure network architectures incorporating segmentation, micro-segmentation, identity, and network access controls.
• Provide L3 engineering support, lead troubleshooting and root cause analysis, and improve performance, resiliency, disaster recovery, and operational efficiency.
• Create and maintain reference architectures, HLDs, LLDs, engineering standards, runbooks, and technical documentation.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, cloud, cybersecurity, application teams, and vendors to deliver secure, scalable, and compliant network services.

Skills

Networking

Terraform

Ansible

Python

CI/CD

Git

Palo Alto

Cisco

Meraki

Azure

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or CS

Tools

GitHub

GitLab

REST APIs

Job description

Ares Management Corporation is seeking an experienced Enterprise Network Engineer to design, implement, and automate our global network across campuses, data centers, cloud, and WAN environments. You will build resilient routing, switching and SD-WAN while leveraging Cisco, Meraki and Palo Alto networks to secure architectures.

You will develop Terraform modules, Ansible playbooks, Python tooling, and CI/CD workflows, enabling repeatable deployments and strong governance with rollback