What are the responsibilities and job description for the Network Automation Engineer position at Primesoft Consulting Services Inc?
Job Details
Job Title: Network Automation Engineer (12 years of experience)
Work Location: Alpharetta, GA (Hybrid) Locals Needed.
Interview Process: 1st video call and 2nd interview will be in person.
Networking:
- Fundamental knowledge is enough
- Networking layer 1, 2, VLAN. HTTP, DSP
- Understand the routable
- DevOps Kubernetes are not must
Strong with Python and Ansible.
- At our Company, we are looking for Network Automation engineer to join Automation and Tooling team within networking domain. The team is responsible for the creations of methods and tools to reduce change management complexity, enhance pre/post change validations, and collect network state information covering various protocols. The Network Automation engineer will help the team in its efforts to discover device asset and operational state data through building necessary tooling, and database. Right candidate is someone who owns the problems and is able to demonstrate leadership and responsibility for the delivery of new features as well as working on complex legacy source code.
Job Description:
- The primary preference is for candidates with strong Python programming skills, while networking experience is a secondary preference.
- Current candidates have a networking background but lack extensive enterprise-level Python experience. The focus is on Python expertise combined with a solid understanding of networking.
- We are seeing only networking experience in most of these resumes. Experience in Python is a must for this role and needs be extensive in their experience.
- Need experience in Cloud DevOps, not a lot of candidates with this background
- Develop and maintain the automation toolset (Python & legacy tools in Perl) for device asset discovery, data collection, and reporting.
- Enhance existing scripts to improving workflows and network change management incorporating new technologies.
- Adapt and transform operational and/or functional needs into solutions.
- Conduct tooling audits to assess proper operational coverage and build remediation changes as required.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and feedback on network automation solutions.
- Conduct regular assessments to identify opportunities for efficiency improvement and optimization.
Required Skills:
- Understanding of networking protocols (TCP/IP) and concepts (i.e., VLAN, ACL).
- Familiarity or prior experience with Ansible Tower or Ansible Automation Platform for managing network devices.
- Proficiency in scripting languages like Python, for creating new API based services and supporting existing scripts.
- Experience of 8-10 years relevant to above skills.
- Understanding of RESTful API principles, HTTP methods, requests and authentication handling, and data serialization.
- Experience with version control systems like Git (BitBucket/GitHub).
- Knowledge of software lifecycle principles and practices, integrating automation into a continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline.
- Knowledge of database management systems like MongoDB for storing and retrieving data.
- Problem-solving skills to identify automation opportunities and optimize existing workflows.
- Ability to write clear and concise documentation for users and fellow developers.
- Experience in frameworks like Flask or Django for building APIs.
- Relevant certifications in Networking (CCNA/CCNP) or RedHat Ansible.
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