Senior Tech Lead, Network Automation Engineer

About the role

Our Observability, Software (SW) Development & Automation Enablement department is in search of a Senior Tech Lead, Network Automation Engineer.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a senior technical lead for network observability and automation enablement, guiding the design, optimization, and troubleshooting of enterprise Ansible and Jenkins workflows that support scalable, resilient infrastructure operations.
• Identify, influence, and implement technology and process improvements that modernize network and observability operations, reduce manual effort, and improve accountability, consistency, and service quality.
• Lead the integration of multi-vendor observability platforms and telemetry sources to expand visibility, automate diagnostics, improve topology awareness, and accelerate incident detection and remediation.
• Provide senior-level technical leadership for platform stability, security, and operational readiness, including troubleshooting complex failures, improving recoverability, and supporting highly available services.
• Architect and implement software-defined workflows for routing, load balancing, firewall policy, telemetry collection, and cloud-connected services, ensuring changes are safe, version-controlled, and aligned with enterprise standards.
• Partner with network leadership, service owners, and peer engineering teams to solve complex business and technical challenges while elevating the team through standards, knowledge sharing, and a service-as-code mindset.

Qualifications

• Education: College Degree or equivalent experience; advanced studies/degree preferred.
• Experience: 10+ years of experience in network engineering, observability, infrastructure automation, platform engineering, SRE, or a closely related discipline, including senior-level ownership of complex technical solutions in large enterprise environments.
• Automation & Engineering Toolkit: Expert-level proficiency with Ansible and Python is required, including the ability to design reusable automation logic, troubleshoot API and JSON interactions, and build practical integrations across enterprise platforms and services.
• Pipeline & Delivery Engineering: Extensive experience building, optimizing, and supporting reliable CI/CD and automation delivery pipelines, including Jenkins-based orchestration in high-availability environments.
• Systems, Security & Operations: Professional experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), platform hardening, patching, and secure operations, with the judgment to support stable production services and improve recoverability during incidents.
• Network & Infrastructure Depth: Strong understanding of enterprise networking and service architectures, including routing and switching concepts, load balancing, firewall services, telemetry, and infrastructure dependencies, so that automation logic accurately reflects the environment it supports.
• Observability & Cloud Exposure: Hands-on experience with modern observability and hybrid infrastructure ecosystems is strongly preferred, including technologies such as NetBrain, ThousandEyes, load balancing platforms, AWS, and infrastructure as code.