Network Automation Engineer II

BlueAlly is seeking a Network Automation Engineer II who will participate as a mid to senior team member on technical projects. The role involves providing engineering support, developing automation tools, and collaborating with stakeholders to enhance network provisioning and management processes.

Responsibilities:

• Supports projects as a mid-to-senior team member with direction from a project lead and complies with the BlueAlly quality of delivering services
• May be part of a bigger delivery team and lead specific areas of a project related to the person’s expertise
• Provide engineering support and technical expertise across multiple projects aligned with client needs
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives and help ensure adherence to quality and compliance standards
• Ability to create technical written documentation independently and to deliver briefings to client stakeholders in a roundtable setting in areas relating to the person’s expertise
• Escalation of project impacting issues to the Delivery Directors or other appropriate leadership
• Develop and maintain Python-based automation tools and scripts to streamline network provisioning, configuration management, and troubleshooting across a multi-vendor environment
• Build integrations between network platforms (Cisco SD-WAN, Meraki, Palo Alto Panorama, zScaler) and centralized management and monitoring systems
• Manage and extend NetBox as the network source of truth, including custom scripts, plugins, and API integrations
• Automate IPAM/DDI workflows across platforms such as Infoblox and Microsoft DHCP
• Create automation workflows that allow operations teams to execute changes safely and repeatably
• Develop automated compliance checks, configuration audits, and drift detection across the network estate
• Collaborate with stakeholders to identify automation opportunities and translate operational pain points into reliable, maintainable code
• Contribute to internal documentation, runbooks, and knowledge sharing around automation tooling and best practices

Requirements:

• 8+ years of relevant engineering experience, ideally in a client-facing or project-driven environment
• Expertise in a technical area with direction from senior technical leadership on specific tasks
• Able to support parts of sales support activities if/as necessary
• Provides support in Project Management requirements
• Often independent but with consistent checkpoints. Tasked by another to undertake specific technical activities
• Deep experience in 1 technical area, developing breadth across 1+ additional areas
• Aware of specific client business requirements and how technical solutions being implemented support those requirements
• Some experience and understanding specific to 1+ industries where the employee has worked
• Recognizes and can explain the business benefits their technical solution provides, short of quantifying those benefits
• Able to create technical written documents (e.g., RFP response content, detail design and deployment deliverables) against specific topics/assignments independently and with few grammatical mistakes
• Able to support, with guidance, the creation and delivery of select presentation content on specific technologies with which they have experience. Can deliver briefings to technical-to-mid level client stakeholders in a roundtable setting
• Understands the need for project and financial information to be compared and aligned to forecast(s)
• Recognizes and acts independently on the different billing objectives by project type (T&M, FFP, Managed Services)
• Consistently maintains one's own forecast on respective efforts. Mentors more junior members in doing the same
• Solid understanding of network routing and switching concepts (OSPF, BGP, VLANs, spanning tree, VRFs, etc.)
• Proficiency in Python with practical experience building network automation solutions
• Hands-on use of network automation libraries such as Netmiko, Nornir, NAPALM, Scrapli, and/or pyATS
• Practical experience with NetBox - deploying, customizing, and integrating it as a source of truth
• Comfort working with REST APIs, data serialization formats (JSON, YAML), and version control (Git)
• Ability to write clean, well-documented, testable code - not just scripts that work once
• One CCNP level certification or dual CCNA level certifications desired. Alternates could include but are not limited to VCAP, JNCIS, CCSE, or PCNSE (as examples)
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent
• Experience integrating automation workflows with ServiceNow (CMDB sync, incident/change management APIs, catalog items)
• Familiarity with AWS cloud networking services (VPCs, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, Route 53)
• Familiarity with cloud DevOps practices and tooling (AWS and/or Azure DevOps)
• Working knowledge of Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or OpenTofu
• Experience with Ansible and/or Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) for network device configuration management and orchestration
• Exposure to Cisco NSO for multi-vendor service orchestration
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and how they apply to network automation workflows
• Experience with containerization (Kubernetes/Docker) for packaging and deploying automation tooling