Lead Network Automation Engineer - Remote

Lead Network Automation Engineer - Remote

Lead Network Automation Engineer

100% Remote

We are seeking top-level technical contributors with advanced industry knowledge and company-related expertise in automation development, programming, networking, and related hardware and software. Individuals must demonstrate a versatile skill set in a variety of technologies applicable to developing automation for networking infrastructure. This role will specifically focus on deploying automation and analytics to support our network, and to develop custom tools to enable our organization to be more effective. The networking team supports a large and complex array of devices that require monitoring, telemetry, configuration management and custom analytics. The focus of this position is to create tools and write automation code that enable the organization to more effectively support the enterprise network, resolve problems faster, proactively resolve problems before they become critical, and reduce the amount of network impacting events.

Typical Day to Day:

• Develop and manage internally developed tools for supporting and maintaining critical network infrastructure.
• Work with the networking team to understand requirements for infrastructure automation.
• Deliver automated troubleshooting, alerting, and tooling to resolve complex networking issues.
• Gathering metrics, telemetry, and configuration data from a large variety of networking devices.

Minimum Experience:

• Strong software development background with at least 3-years leading software development projects in the network engineering space.
• Automation experience on multiple platforms (e.g. Cisco (Routing/Switching and ASA/FP), Juniper (MX/SRX), Palo Alto, VMware/NSX-T, Load Balancing/GSLB (F5), Arista switching, Aruba switching/wireless, Cumulus switching).
• Experience developing custom API's
• 3+ years Python experience.
• Working knowledge of Ansible, and other Python tools related to network engineering (e.g. Netmiko, PyATS, etc.)
• Experience working with external REST API's
• Working knowledge of relational (e.g. SQL style database) and nonrelational database systems (e.g. Splunk/Elk)
• Working knowledge with data dashboarding platform (e.g. Grafana)
• 3+ years network engineering experience (route/switch, strong BGP, firewalls). VXLAN/EVPN a plus.
• Ability to work in a team environment (including, but not limited to sharing and reusing of existing code, strong documentation, and leveraging Git for code management).

About Infinity Consulting Solutions

At Infinity Consulting Solutions our mission is to cultivate successful long term relationships with candidates and clients matching the right candidate with the right client. We believe technology cannot replace the real personal relationships we cultivate. We reject the notion that technology alone is the answer to staffing which is why we our successful partnerships rely on collaboration NOT automation. ICS has been providing flexible staffing solutions for over 20 years in Information Technology, Compliance, Accounting / Finance and Corporate Support. Our staffing solutions include Contract, Temp to Perm and Permanent Placement.

ICS is an Equal Opportunity Employer.