Senior Network Automation Engineer – IaC & Cloud Networking

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision

401(k) with company match

HSA/FSA

Life Insurance

Disability

Commuter Benefits

Job summary

Ares in Los Angeles is seeking an Senior Network Engineer to design, implement, and automate enterprise network infrastructure across global offices, data centers, cloud, and WAN. You will build resilient routing, switching, SD-WAN, and secure architectures using Cisco, Palo Alto, Meraki, and Azure.

The role emphasizes IaC with Terraform, Ansible, and Python, plus CI/CD workflows, code reviews, and disaster recovery. Travel about 10-25% and office-based work are expected.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Telecommunications, or related discipline.

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

Enterprise Networking

Automation & IaC

Git CI/CD

Security & Zero Trust

Cloud Networking (Azure)

Technical Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/CS

Tools

Cisco Technologies

Palo Alto Networks

Meraki

Microsoft Azure

Job description

Ares in Los Angeles is seeking an Senior Network Engineer to design, implement, and automate enterprise network infrastructure across global offices, data centers, cloud, and WAN. You will build resilient routing, switching, SD-WAN, and secure architectures using Cisco, Palo Alto, Meraki, and Azure.

The role emphasizes IaC with Terraform, Ansible, and Python, plus CI/CD workflows, code reviews, and disaster recovery. Travel about 10-25% and office-based work are expected.