SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Job Order: Senior Network Automation Engineer

Title: Senior Network Automation Engineer

Compensation: $190,000–$220,000 Base + $40,000–$80,000 Annual Bonus

Location: Relocation Available (White-Glove Relocation Package)

Benefits

• 100% employer-paid medical benefits for employees and their families
• $1,000 annual HSA contribution
• 401(k) with 100% match up to 6%
• 25 days of PTO - 12 paid holidays
• Complimentary daily lunch in the office
• Free Wellhub gym membership
• Outstanding white-glove relocation assistance tailored to candidate needs

Our client is seeking a highly skilled Senior Network Automation Engineer who is equally comfortable writing clean, production-grade Python as they are designing and troubleshooting complex routing environments. This is an opportunity for an experienced engineer who has built scalable automation platforms for large-scale infrastructure and understands modern data center networking from both a software and networking perspective.

You'll work alongside Network Engineering, Platform Engineering, and Security teams to automate provisioning, simplify operations, and build self-service networking capabilities that support global infrastructure. This is a hands-on technical role with significant ownership, from architecture through production deployment.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain network automation frameworks for provisioning and lifecycle management across global infrastructure.
• Build scalable automation solutions using Python and Infrastructure-as-Code practices.
• Develop tooling with Python, Ansible, Terraform, and Jinja2.
• Design and build APIs that expose networking capabilities through self-service platforms.
• Integrate network automation into CI/CD pipelines for repeatable, testable deployments.
• Implement monitoring, telemetry, and observability solutions to improve network health and reliability.
• Partner with Network, Platform, and Security Engineering teams on scalable infrastructure initiatives.
• Lead technical design discussions and influence long-term automation architecture.
• Own projects from design through implementation and production support.
• Participate in an on-call rotation, incident response, and root cause analysis.

Required Qualifications

• Strong background spanning both software engineering and network engineering.
• Expert-level Python programming skills with solid software engineering fundamentals.
• Experience with:
• REST APIs
• CI/CD pipelines
• Git and code reviews
• Automated testing
• Hands-on experience with:
• Ansible
• Terraform
• Jinja2
• Strong understanding of:
• TCP/IP
• DNS
• HTTP
• Load Balancing
• Network Security
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with:
• Service discovery
• Secrets management
• Policy-as-Code frameworks
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, observability, resiliency, and microservices.
• Ability to work independently, navigate ambiguity, and drive projects to completion.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with relational, NoSQL, or graph databases.
• Knowledge of Kafka, RabbitMQ, or other event-driven architectures.
• Experience supporting large-scale data center environments.
• Familiarity with Cisco, Arista, and Juniper networking platforms.
• Strong routing and switching expertise including:
• BGP
• OSPF
• VRFs
• VLANs
• ACLs
• Firewalls
• Segment Routing
• Multi-tenant network architectures
• Experience applying AI/ML to infrastructure automation, predictive analytics, anomaly detection, or automated remediation.
• Contributions to open-source networking or automation projects.

Ideal Candidate

We're looking for someone who enjoys solving infrastructure problems through software, understands networking at a protocol level, and has built automation platforms that make large-scale environments easier to operate. This person thrives in collaborative engineering teams, takes ownership of complex technical challenges, and is passionate about building reliable, scalable infrastructure.