Senior Network Automation Engineer

ARK Solutions, Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm is seeking a Senior Network DevOps Engineer to join their Network DevOps team. This role requires a passion for automating network functions and enhancing global end-user experience. Candidates should have over 12 years of experience in network engineering and at least 10 years in automation with tools like Ansible and Python. Responsibilities include collaborating with experts, driving network automation practices, and establishing technical relationships to implement solutions. Competitive salary and benefits offered.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience as a Network Engineer with design and implementation skills.
• 10+ years of experience in automating network functions using Ansible & Python.
• 8+ years of experience administering the Ansible Automation platform.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with expert network architects and engineers.
• Drive adoption of Network Automation practices across all Global Network teams.
• Establish technical relationships to implement network automation solutions.

Skills

Networking technologies

Automation with Ansible

Network security infrastructure

Python programming

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Tools

Ansible

Python

Git

CI/CD tools

Job description

Automation being a huge part of global network strategy, we are looking for an enthusiastic team member with passion to innovate and excel, to join our amazing Network DevOps team as Senior Network DevOps Engineer. The Network DevOps team is responsible for Global Network and automates, maintains and manages the Core network services, Network Monitoring tools and Security infrastructure. The team is tasked to automate 100% of the Global Network operations and find innovative ways to improve the global end-user experience. We are building the next generation innovative and self-healing network automation platform and are eager to find people to help us achieve these goals and beyond.

Note - Only W2 Role.

The deal candidate has:

• Proven design and implementation experience in different networking technologies such as Routers & Switches, Firewalls, WAN, Network Monitoring Tools, and Network security infrastructure.
• A passion to find out network operations use cases and automate them using tools such as Ansible and Python.
• An eagerness to listen to business, abstract the complexity from it and provide intelligent automated solutions.
• A comprehensive Networking background, who has then moved towards automating the daily network operational and compliance tasks.
• A passion to automate everything, and nothing can stop you from finding a way to do that.

You will:

• Be working closely and collaboratively with expert network architects and great engineers.
• Be a key contributor to drive adoption of Network Automation practices and operating models across all Global Network teams.
• Be accountable for establishing technical level relationships and partnering with all business disciplines and other MI teams to define and implement the network automation solution.

CANDIDATE PROFILE:

Minimum qualifications and experience required:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related technical field experience/certification
• 12+ years' experience as a Network Engineer with Designing and Implementing complex networking.
• 10+ years of experience with automating network functions using tools such as Ansible & Python.
• 10+ years of experience with developing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Software-defined networks (SDN) across all Network device functions including Routers, Switches, Firewalls, Load Balancers.
• 8+ years of experience administering the Ansible Automation platform & managing Network Source of Truth systems to support automation workloads.
• 8+ years of experience in building Network test and deployment automation pipelines using Git and CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Harness & Helm charts.
• Experience in Network automation software, libraries, and tools such as Netmiko, Nornir, Netbox, PyATS, Genie, F5 SDK, Pan-os-python etc.