Senior Network Automation Engineer - Python & IaC

NorthMark Strategies; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Lunch stipend (GrubHub)

Employer-paid medical, dental & vision

16 weeks paid parental leave

Employee Assistance Program

Life insurance

Short-Term Disability

Long-Term Disability

401(k) match up to 6%

Optional PPO medical plan

25 days PTO + 12 holidays

Job summary

NorthMark Strategies LLC is seeking a Senior Engineer proficient in Python and networking to automate provisioning and management of global data center environments. You will work across engineering teams to design scalable automation, APIs, and self-service tooling, driving reliability and efficiency in our infrastructure.

The role emphasizes hands-on development, collaboration, and ownership of end-to-end projects, with opportunities to influence architecture and security practices within a

Qualifications

• Proven experience spanning software development and network engineering, with direct ownership of automation and tooling projects.
• Strong programming skills in Python and solid software engineering fundamentals - testing, version control, CI/CD, code review.
• Experience with API design, service integration, or platform engineering.
• Familiarity with service discovery, secrets management, policy-as-code frameworks.
• Deep understanding of computer networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, load balancing, and network security concepts.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and configuration management tools (Ansible, Terraform, Jinja2).
• Expertise in cloud native technologies including containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Familiarity with distributed system concepts: microservice architecture, data consistency, fault tolerance strategies, security, and observability patterns.
• Strong problem-solving skills and comfort navigating ambiguity – you take ownership and drive projects to completion.
• Ability to collaborate effectively in cross-functional, agile engineering teams, and flexibility to adapt to fast-changing technical environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain automation frameworks that simplify network provisioning and lifecycle management across global infrastructure.
• Contribute to architectural design discussions, ensuring automation is built for long-term maintainability and scalability.
• Develop software in Python and leverage tools such as Ansible, Terraform, and Jinja2 to implement software-driven network designs/IaC practices.
• Integrate network automation into CI/CD pipelines, enabling testable, repeatable, and reliable deployments.
• Build APIs and tooling to expose networking capabilities as self-service interfaces for engineering teams.
• Implement observability and telemetry workflows for network performance and availability using modern monitoring stacks.
• Collaborate with Network Engineering, Security, and Platform teams to deliver resilient and scalable automation solutions.
• Participate in on-call rotations, contributing to incident response, root cause analysis, and ongoing reliability improvements.

Skills

Python

Networking fundamentals

CI/CD

Automation

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

Jinja2

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

NorthMark Strategies LLC is seeking a Senior Engineer proficient in Python and networking to automate provisioning and management of global data center environments. You will work across engineering teams to design scalable automation, APIs, and self-service tooling, driving reliability and efficiency in our infrastructure.

The role emphasizes hands-on development, collaboration, and ownership of end-to-end projects, with opportunities to influence architecture and security practices within a