Senior Network SRE - BGP, SD-WAN & Automation

KellyMitchell Group; Spring (TX); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance and benefits

Profit Sharing (ESOP)

401K offered

Job summary

KellyMitchell is seeking a Network Site Reliability Engineer to support and enhance enterprise network infrastructure using SRE principles. You will improve reliability, observability, and operational efficiency with automation in Python and Ansible.

The role emphasizes routing, SD-WAN optimization (Versa where applicable), Cisco switching and wireless, and Fortinet firewall support in a large, business-critical environment. Onsite in Spring, TX, with a long-term contract.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of enterprise network engineering and operations experience.
• Expert-level routing knowledge with emphasis on BGP.
• Strong enterprise networking, LAN/WAN and troubleshooting skills.
• Experience supporting SD-WAN environments.
• Hands-on Cisco switching and wireless technologies experience.
• Administer enterprise firewall platforms (Fortinet preferred).
• Strong Python scripting and network automation experience.
• Experience with Ansible or similar automation tools.
• Understanding of APIs and system integrations.
• Knowledge of network observability, telemetry and reliability.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, operate, and support reliable enterprise network services.
• Act as SME for routing technologies, especially BGP, and optimize SD-WAN.
• Manage Cisco Catalyst switching and Cisco wireless infrastructure.
• Support firewall platforms, preferably Fortinet.
• Develop automation using Python, Ansible, and APIs.
• Implement monitoring, telemetry, observability, and performance optimization.
• Participate in incident response and root-cause analysis.
• Create and maintain technical docs and runbooks.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, cybersecurity, operations and apps teams.
• Join on-call rotation for critical network services and manufacturing ops.

Skills

BGP routing

SD-WAN

Python scripting

Ansible

APIs & integrations

Network observability

On-call support

Cisco switching

Cisco wireless

Fortinet firewall

Versa SD-WAN

Tools

Cisco switches

Fortinet firewall

Versa SD-WAN

Datadog

ServiceNow

Job description

KellyMitchell is seeking a Network Site Reliability Engineer to support and enhance enterprise network infrastructure using SRE principles. You will improve reliability, observability, and operational efficiency with automation in Python and Ansible.

The role emphasizes routing, SD-WAN optimization (Versa where applicable), Cisco switching and wireless, and Fortinet firewall support in a large, business-critical environment. Onsite in Spring, TX, with a long-term contract.