Network Automation Engineer

Summary: The Network Automation Engineer role involves architecting and implementing automated solutions for large-scale network topologies using Arista EOS. This hands-on position requires expertise in software engineering, network engineering, and DevOps, focusing on the full software development lifecycle and integration with CI/CD pipelines. The engineer will collaborate with various teams to enhance self-service capabilities while ensuring security and reliability in automation processes.

Key Responsibilities:

• Architect and implement playbooks, frameworks, and automated test suites that provision, monitor, and validate large-scale network topologies running Arista EOS.
• This is a hands-on role spanning software engineering, network engineering, and DevOps owning the full SDLC, integrating with CICD pipelines, and establishing the standards, controls, and telemetry needed for a high-scale, secure automation platform.
• Collaborate across development, test, and operations to deliver frictionless self-service for internal customers while improving reliability, speed, and security.
• Design and build greenfield automation.
• Architect reusable Ansible or Python frameworks, roles, and modules for Arista EOS.
• Develop abstracted device classes or methods to provision, configure, and monitor devices at scale.
• Create maintainable automated test suites and integrate into CICD (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CICD).
• Monitor execution, analyze failures, perform root cause analysis, and publish clear, actionable bug reports.
• Implement automation for provisioning or validation via REST, OpenConfig, gNMI, and Ansible.
• Build logging, metrics, telemetry, and security controls so the platform runs efficiently and flawlessly.
• Own or evolve security and development standards, controls, and documentation across the full SDLC.
• Translate business or technical workflows into executable Ansible or Python code and authoritative runbooks.
• Contribute to internal enablement documentation, code reviews, and mentoring on automation best practices.
• Code/Data deployment and release support.
• Being able to solve problems quickly and effectively.
• Willing to work in shifts and weekends.
• Experience in building monitoring dashboards in Grafana, Splunk, cloud monitoring etc.
• Create dashboard for proactive monitoring.
• Automate alerts, notifications & Daemon processes.
• Good RCA and communication skills.
• Experience in AWS Services such as Lambda, SNS, SQS, deployment services CI/CD Pipeline, Version Control tools, Monitoring tools.
• Should have experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Should have knowledge in automation tools like ansible, chef, puppet, Gitlab, terraform, cloud formation, etc.
• Ensuring the availability, performance, and scalability of a website or application.
• Provide solution support and configuration changes across all environments.
• Deep understanding of how distributed systems work in order to be able to troubleshoot and optimize them.
• Code/Data deployment and release support.
• Being able to solve problems quickly and effectively.
• Willing to work in shifts and weekends.

Key Skills:

• Experience with Arista EOS.
• Proficiency in Ansible and Python.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab).
• Experience with AWS Services (Lambda, SNS, SQS).
• Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Understanding of automation tools (Ansible, Chef, Puppet, GitLab, Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Good communication and RCA skills.
• Experience in building monitoring dashboards (Grafana, Splunk).
• Ability to work in shifts and weekends.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems.

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: undetermined

Country: USA

Working Arrangements: remote

IR35 Status: outside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT