Network Automation Engineer

Quick Facts

• Focus: network automation, DevOps practices, and infrastructure reliability/scalability

• Key areas: network management/monitoring automation, device configuration validation, observability and alerting

Description

You will write and maintain software that solves complex network management and monitoring tasks. The role includes deploying and auditing network device configurations, automating validation/testing, and monitoring network health and performance with visualization and alerting. You will collaborate with engineering teams to integrate network automation into deployment pipelines and drive automation across the software development, release, and operations lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Develop automation software for network management and monitoring

• Deploy, audit, and validate network device configurations

• Automate testing and validation procedures

• Monitor network health and performance with visualization and alerting

• Integrate network automation into deployment pipelines with other engineering teams

• Drive automation through development, release, and operations stages

• Stay current with network automation industry trends and apply improvements

• Support Linux-based environments and containerized services (e.g., NMS, telemetry, flowspec/routing controllers, syslog, TACACS, netflow)

Requirements

• Background in networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, IP routing protocols)

• Unix-based systems administration experience

• Experience with network vendor devices (Arista, Cisco, Juniper, Nokia) and their automation interfaces

• Python development experience for automation and data handling

• Deep understanding of network protocols, including BGP and OSPF

• Hands-on Docker experience

• Monitoring solutions experience (Prometheus, Grafana)

• Ansible familiarity for automation and configuration management

• Git and CI/CD tools familiarity

• Database experience (PostgreSQL, ClickHouse)

• API experience and comfort with JSON/YAML

• Fluent English

Benefits

• Competitive compensation

• Flexible working hours and hybrid/remote options

• Work from anywhere in the world up to 45 days per year

• Private medical insurance for you and your family

• Extra paid vacation and sick leave days

• Support for life’s important moments and celebrations

• Language courses

• Modern offices with snacks, drinks, and entertainment; team sports and social activities

Benefits may vary depending on location.