Sr. IT Network Automation Engineer

Responsibilities

• Build network automation tools to support switch configurations, config backups, software updates, logging, monitoring and alerting
• Create Python scripts to automate manual network processes
• Measure, maintain, and improve the uptime and performance of the corporate network
• Act as technical product owner for infrastructure tools and software used by the network engineering team
• Innovate ways to scale with automation and operational improvements
• Collaborate closely with network engineers to create highly operable and maintainable infrastructure
• Provide mentorship to junior engineers

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, math, or science discipline and 5+ years of network automation, DevOps, network engineering, or site reliability engineering experience OR 8+ years of experience in network automation
• Experience with Linux operating system
• Automation skills in Python, Go, shell, bash, and/or other languages

Basic Qualifications

• Experience with networking protocols, their application and traffic types: TCP/IPv4/IPv6, gaming, voice, video, broadcast, streaming etc.
• Experience with source code and version control tools such as Git or Subversion
• Comfortable working with mission critical and sensitive systems, with a sense of urgency appropriate to the responsibilities
• Understanding of fundamental networking
• Experience with managing hundreds to thousands of network assets in an automated environment
• Experience with Puppet, Ansible, or other automation frameworks
• Able to run projects independently
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to communicate with customers, peers, management etc. in both formal and informal situations

Additional Requirements

• Must be able to work extended hours and weekends as needed
• Ability to pass Air Force background check for Cape Canaveral