Network Automation Specialist

Your role:

The Network Automation Specialist is primarily responsible for building and integrating code required for deployments of automation, scripting, telemetry, and analytics solutions pertaining to Network and Firewall Appliances. They will participate in network operations activities with primary emphasis on DevOps tasks and will work closely with all members of netops team to improve configuration efficiency and speed for large scale network environments across data centers and offices. 

Your responsibilities:

• Deploy, integrate, and support automation and scripting solutions to drive new capabilities, visibility, and efficiency, for Network and Firewall Appliances.
• Build Ansible code for configuring, monitoring, and analyzing Network and Firewall appliances using but not limited to RESTFUL APIs.
• Write and maintain python scripts using automation frameworks.
• Develop troubleshooting and debugging code to identify problems.
• Explore different network operations activities and identify use-cases for automation.
• Create meaningful reports and graphs from collected netflow, sflow, J-flow, flowd or IPFIX records.
• Setup logging and monitoring for network devices and create useful dashboards and graphs.
• Participate in the creation of documentation including: Runbooks, how-to user guides & technical how-to support guides, and Method of Procedures (MoP).

About you:

• 2-5 years’ experience in a DevOps capacity with exposure to config automation and remote network management.
• Ability to write basic scripts using languages like Python or Bash for simple tasks.
• Knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to render simple internal network web forms and templates.
• Familiarity with standard out-of-the-box configuration management and templating tools.
• Knowledge of REST APIs and how to perform HTTPS requests.
• Basic experience using Git for pulling, committing, and pushing code snippets.
• Basic understanding of Web Frameworks (Flask) to build simple, lightweight web applications and REST endpoints for automation scripts.
• Knowledge of SQL and experience with lightweight databases (e.g., SQLite, PostgreSQL) to store device inventories or logs.
• Understanding of OSI model, TCP/IP.
• Knowledge and experience in using Linux systems.
• Experience with OpenSource software and/or service management tools and applications (OpenStack, OpenShift, Zabbix, JIRA, Confluence, Jenkins, etc.)

Working conditions: 

• Must be available after hours and / or weekends for emergency related work, service impacting incident resolution, or maintenance that is required during maintenance windows (outside of regular business hours).