Design and maintain network automation frameworks for global infrastructure using Python and Infrastructure-as-Code practices. Build scalable automation solutions, APIs, and CI/CD pipelines while collaborating with Network, Platform, and Security teams. Requires expert Python skills, strong networking knowledge, and experience with Ansible, Terraform, and Jinja2.
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Job Order: Senior Network Automation Engineer
Title: Senior Network Automation Engineer
Compensation: $190,000–$220,000 Base + $40,000–$80,000 Annual Bonus
Location: Relocation Available (White-Glove Relocation Package)
Benefits
- 100% employer-paid medical benefits for employees and their families
- $1,000 annual HSA contribution
- 401(k) with 100% match up to 6%
- 25 days of PTO - 12 paid holidays
- Complimentary daily lunch in the office
- Free Wellhub gym membership
- Outstanding white-glove relocation assistance tailored to candidate needs
Our client is seeking a highly skilled Senior Network Automation Engineer who is equally comfortable writing clean, production-grade Python as they are designing and troubleshooting complex routing environments. This is an opportunity for an experienced engineer who has built scalable automation platforms for large-scale infrastructure and understands modern data center networking from both a software and networking perspective.
You'll work alongside Network Engineering, Platform Engineering, and Security teams to automate provisioning, simplify operations, and build self-service networking capabilities that support global infrastructure. This is a hands-on technical role with significant ownership, from architecture through production deployment.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain network automation frameworks for provisioning and lifecycle management across global infrastructure.
- Build scalable automation solutions using Python and Infrastructure-as-Code practices.
- Develop tooling with Python, Ansible, Terraform, and Jinja2.
- Design and build APIs that expose networking capabilities through self-service platforms.
- Integrate network automation into CI/CD pipelines for repeatable, testable deployments.
- Implement monitoring, telemetry, and observability solutions to improve network health and reliability.
- Partner with Network, Platform, and Security Engineering teams on scalable infrastructure initiatives.
- Lead technical design discussions and influence long-term automation architecture.
- Own projects from design through implementation and production support.
- Participate in an on-call rotation, incident response, and root cause analysis.
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Required Qualifications
- Strong background spanning both software engineering and network engineering.
- Expert-level Python programming skills with solid software engineering fundamentals.
- Experience with:
- REST APIs
- CI/CD pipelines
- Git and code reviews
- Automated testing
- Hands-on experience with:
- Ansible
- Terraform
- Jinja2
- Strong understanding of:
- TCP/IP
- DNS
- HTTP
- Load Balancing
- Network Security
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
- Familiarity with:
- Service discovery
- Secrets management
- Policy-as-Code frameworks
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, observability, resiliency, and microservices.
- Ability to work independently, navigate ambiguity, and drive projects to completion.
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Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with relational, NoSQL, or graph databases.
- Knowledge of Kafka, RabbitMQ, or other event-driven architectures.
- Experience supporting large-scale data center environments.
- Familiarity with Cisco, Arista, and Juniper networking platforms.
- Strong routing and switching expertise including:
- BGP
- OSPF
- VRFs
- VLANs
- ACLs
- Firewalls
- Segment Routing
- Multi-tenant network architectures
- Experience applying AI/ML to infrastructure automation, predictive analytics, anomaly detection, or automated remediation.
- Contributions to open-source networking or automation projects.
Ideal Candidate
We're looking for someone who enjoys solving infrastructure problems through software, understands networking at a protocol level, and has built automation platforms that make large-scale environments easier to operate. This person thrives in collaborative engineering teams, takes ownership of complex technical challenges, and is passionate about building reliable, scalable infrastructure.
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