Network Automation Engineer

Role Overview

• Interpret operational requirements and constraints.
• Deploy and configure virtualized routers, firewalls, load balancers, and other network functions.
• Configure overlay and underlay networks in virtualized environments.
• Validate connectivity, routing, segmentation, and policy enforcement across distributed systems.
• Convert manual deployment procedures into parameterized and reusable automation workflows.
• Automate policy enforcement, compliance validation, and certificate lifecycle management (PKI/TLS).
• Implement configuration drift detection and self-healing automation.
• Document automation frameworks, deployment standards, and operational procedures.
• Engineers in this role may encounter challenges such as: Automating configuration across multiple network vendors and platforms.
• Managing overlay and underlay networks in hybrid and virtualized environments.
• Converting manual operations into automated deployment pipelines.
• Diagnosing connectivity, routing, and segmentation issues in distributed systems.
• Maintaining configuration consistency across large-scale infrastructure.
• Supporting mission-critical environments requiring high availability and rapid recovery.
• Develop infrastructure automation workflows integrated with CI/CD pipelines.
• Convert operational procedures into repeatable Infrastructure-as-Code deployments.
• Implement API-driven automation for network device configuration and orchestration.
• Integrate network automation into broader platform engineering initiatives.
• Integrate telemetry and monitoring into automated infrastructure workflows.
• Provide visibility into network performance, service health, and operational events.
• Support troubleshooting and root cause analysis across distributed environments.

Requirements

• 3+ years of network engineering experience
• 5+ years of experience with network automation using Ansible
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure or networking
• Linux administration fundamentals
• Experience with network APIs and data models such as REST, NETCONF, RESTCONF, YANG, and OpenConfig
• Familiarity with distributed systems concepts such as leader election, state replication, and distributed queues
• Experience with clustering or coordination tools such as Akka, Raft, Zookeeper, or Redis
• Understanding of system resource tuning for high-performance networking
• Experience with log analysis and service troubleshooting
• Exposure to containerized network functions
• Strong troubleshooting skills.
• Preferred: Experience supporting mission-critical or high-availability networks
• Experience with network monitoring, management, or observability platforms
• Experience automating software-defined radio (SDR) or tactical RF deployments
• Familiarity with RF diagnostic, spectrum analysis, or wireless troubleshooting tools
• Experience with virtualized or containerized network functions
• Experience testing automated deployments in network simulation environments (e.g., GNS3, EVE-NG, Containerlab).

Tech Stack

• Akka
• Ansible
• Distributed Systems
• Firewalls
• Linux
• Redis
• Zookeeper

Benefits

• Health/Dental/Vision
• 401(k) match
• Paid Time Off
• STD/LTD/Life Insurance
• Referral Bonuses
• professional development reimbursement
• parental leave