Network Automation Engineer

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Network Automation Engineer

5- 6 years experience• 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