The ideal candidate will have a strong mix of both networking and software development skills in order to focus on development and execution of network automation opportunities and related services.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Responsible for the creation, maintaining, and execution of automation tasks in a mixed network and cloud infrastructure environment.
• Develop and drive customer self-service tooling, automation workflows, and driving operational accuracy and efficiency.
• Automation of network focused change efforts including network configuration tasks, standardization updates, software upgrades, provisioning, compliance auditing, and validation of changes in support of our operational department.
• Working on evolving needs and planning surrounding automation and orchestration in a platform as a service environment (network cloud).
• Design and implement self-service solutions around operational needs.
• Input into architecture design around software defined networks, network automation, and orchestration while maintaining best practices in large scale environments.

BASIC / MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field, and/or related work experience.
• Excellent understanding of routing and switching protocols, network architecture, TCP/IP, and OSI model. Candidate should be well versed in IPv4 and IPv6.
• Strong knowledge of industry specifications and standards IEEE, ANSI, Fiber (Multimode, Single mode, UTP, etc.), Bridging, Switching, Routing, Ethernet and Transport technologies and protocols.
• Minimum of five (5) years of network engineering experience.
• Cisco or Juniper certifications (CCNA/CCNP/JNCIP) or equivalent.
• Scripting/Coding background with Python and similar languages.
• Integration and working with RESTful / HTTP services.
• Strong working experience across various networking vendor platforms (Cisco, Juniper, Arista, F5, A10)
• Modeling and markup languages such as YANG, XML, and JSON.
• Experience with network automation related frameworks (Ansible, Napalm, Nornir, Netmiko, or Paramiko)
• Experience driving large-scale automation efforts and production deployments.
• Proficient database working experience (SQL, MongoDB, Redis)
• Strong systems and Linux/UNIX experience a plus.
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills a must.
• Excellent organizational and communication skills both verbal and written.
• Software Defined Network architecture, deployment knowledge, and integration a plus (Cisco ACI, Arista Cloud Vision, Juniper Apstra, NSX-T, etc.)
• Working experience with Tufin, F5 BIG-IQ, A10 Harmony, Science Logic, InfoBlox, or Juniper Security Director a plus.