Senior Network Reliability & Automation Engineer

Referment; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Referment is seeking a Network Reliability Engineer to join a cross-platform team responsible for the reliability of a complex production environment spanning Linux, Windows, business applications, high-performance networks and storage infrastructure.

This role blends operational ownership with engineering projects—resolving incidents, improving observability, and automating repetitive work to change things safely.

Qualifications

• Five+ years operating and engineering production networks at scale, with on-call responsibility.
• Strong fundamentals across UDP, TCP/IP, BGP and OSPF, with PIM/IGMP knowledge.
• Experience writing/maintaining automation, preferably in Python.
• Hands-on knowledge of firewall and security platforms.
• Experience with network observability, metrics and diagnostic tooling.
• Understanding of declarative configuration management and a relevant technical degree or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Operate and engineer production network infrastructure with a focus on stability, reliability and safe change.
• Diagnose unfamiliar, high-impact technical problems under pressure.
• Administer network, monitoring and security platforms across a cross-platform environment.
• Develop automation that removes manual work, improves efficiency and manages configuration as code.
• Make network health measurable through metrics, monitoring, diagnostics and tracing.
• Contribute to broader infrastructure engineering projects.

Skills

Network engineering

On-call / incident handling

Networking protocols (UDP, TCP/IP, BGP

Network observability

Declarative configuration management

Firewall security knowledge

Education

Technical degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Python

Monitoring/diagnostic tooling

Firewall platforms

Configuration management tooling

Job description

Referment is seeking a Network Reliability Engineer to join a cross-platform team responsible for the reliability of a complex production environment spanning Linux, Windows, business applications, high-performance networks and storage infrastructure.

This role blends operational ownership with engineering projects—resolving incidents, improving observability, and automating repetitive work to change things safely.