Senior NetDevOps Engineer: Automation & Security Lead

Cleveland-Cliffs; United States; On-site; USD 105,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement plan

Education assistance

Paid time off

Variable compensation opportunity

Job summary

Cleveland-Cliffs is seeking a hands-on Senior IT Network Engineer to design, deploy, and maintain the enterprise network with emphasis on automation and observability. This senior role focuses on NetDevOps, CI/CD, and secure, scalable network operations across multiple sites.

You will lead automation initiatives, mentor peers, and collaborate with Cyber Security and plant engineering teams while traveling about 10% to other Cleveland-Cliffs locations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited four-year college or university, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Strong hands-on network engineering experience supporting enterprise network architecture in a production environment.
• Hands-on experience with enterprise routing and switching, including routing protocols such as OSPF, EIGRP, and BGP, and LAN technologies such as VLANs, Spanning Tree (STP/RSTP), and EtherChannel
• Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) certification
• 5+ years of experience deploying and maintaining enterprise-scale network monitoring and observability systems
• 5+ years of experience designing and implementing network automation solutions
• Demonstrated automation mindset, with a track record of scripting, orchestration, and eliminating manual processes through code
• Working knowledge of DevOps concepts — such as version control, CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code — and how they apply to network change and deployment
• Working knowledge of network security principles, including firewalls, segmentation, and access control
• Strong organizational, troubleshooting, and communication skills, with the ability to manage multiple concurrent projects
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment and respond to escalations outside standard business hours
• Positive attitude, growth mindset, and commitment to continuous learning

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and optimize our monitoring and observability infrastructure — including monitoring, logging, and tracing capabilities — to ensure high availability, scalability, and security
• Design and build automation to streamline deployment, configuration, monitoring, and incident response, reducing manual effort and improving consistency across the environment
• Apply DevOps practices to network operations — including version control, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines, and automated testing and validation — to deliver changes faster and more reliably
• Manage network configurations and automation code in source control, with peer review, change tracking, and repeatable, auditable deployment workflows
• Build and maintain security monitoring, alerting, and telemetry that improve threat visibility, support detection and response, and feed security operations and incident response workflows
• Automate security-related tasks such as configuration compliance, firewall and access policy validation, device hardening, and patch and firmware remediation to enforce cybersecurity standards at scale
• Apply AI-based technologies and analytics to improve anomaly detection, event correlation, root cause analysis, and predictive network operations
• Serve as a hands-on technical resource for complex configuration, troubleshooting, and escalation activities in production environments
• Execute automation and observability initiatives end to end — scoping, scheduling, tracking milestones, and delivering on commitment dates
• Partner with Cyber Security and plant engineering teams on secure network operations, including visibility and segmentation between IT and operational technology (OT) environments
• Support network security operations by providing the monitoring data, automation, and integrations needed for firewall, NAC, VPN, and segmentation technologies
• Continuously research, evaluate, and recommend new automation, DevOps, observability, security, and AI-driven tools and technologies that improve the reliability, security, and supportability of the network environment
• Report project status, risks, and operational and security metrics to leadership on a regular cadence
• Support a 24x7x365 fast-paced operational environment, including participation in on-call escalation
• Travel to other Cleveland-Cliffs locations as required (approximately 10%)
• Perform other duties as assigned; responsibilities may evolve with business needs, technical developments, or operational requirements

Skills

CCNA

Network engineering

Routing protocols

Scripting

NetDevOps

CI/CD pipelines

Security concepts

Troubleshooting

DevOps mindset

Education

Bachelor’s degree in IT/CS/Engineering

CCNP certification

Tools

Git

Ansible

Terraform

Job description

Cleveland-Cliffs is seeking a hands-on Senior IT Network Engineer to design, deploy, and maintain the enterprise network with emphasis on automation and observability. This senior role focuses on NetDevOps, CI/CD, and secure, scalable network operations across multiple sites.

You will lead automation initiatives, mentor peers, and collaborate with Cyber Security and plant engineering teams while traveling about 10% to other Cleveland-Cliffs locations.