Network Automation Engineer Jobs

Job Overview / Purpose

The Network Automation Engineer is responsible for management and automation of network infrastructure and related solutions in the cloud and on-prem datacenters, as well as corporate and field locations. This role will improve and maintain the ongoing reliability and supportability of the current infrastructure; improve speed and quality of the new implementations; respond to escalated L3 incidents and problems; continuously improve the Company’s operating environment.

Key Accountabilities

• Implement high availability strategies to maintain network performance and connectivity
• Conceptualize and build automation tooling and pipelines that enable standardization and management of secure network infrastructure at scale across a variety of environments, including cloud, on-prem datacenters and high number of distributed branch locations
• Stay abreast of new and emerging technologies to drive the IT innovation within Chartwell
• Support technical operations on key initiatives or projects from requirements to design to implementation
• Escalate and manage vendors, partner, and service providers and to provide timely resolution to problems
• Comply with all IT and corporate policies and with the guidance of the IT Security team, ensure that all audit controls are met
• Create and maintain documentation, including standards, diagrams, drawings, and deployment plans
• Standardize network infrastructure at data centers and remote locations to enable effective operations
• Configure and manage WAN between all locations with in-house solutions or provider managed services
• Collaborate via open communication reaching across functional borders to analyze, tune, and configure automated platform infrastructure and systems
• Analyze data to diagnose and identify root causes to issues
• Participate in researching solutions to various business and technical problems; evaluate alternatives; and provide recommendations
• Share expertise and provide individual training and support
• Design, configure and manage Wi-Fi solutions to support voice and location services
• Improve productivity by delivering orchestration, proactive monitoring, and self-healing automation
• Develop automation to improve deployments of new branches and support existing infrastructure, e.g. device provisioning, configuration management, testing, patching, etc.
• Configure and manage routing and switching platforms to support business applications
• Work closely with cyber security team and be proactive on remediating vulnerabilities
• Ensure the availability, performance, reliability, and reporting of the company enterprise networks and data centers
• Participate as needed in incident, problem and change management processes as well as lessons learned with focus on continuous improvements
• Provide network infrastructure solutions based on application needs and anticipated growth

Qualifications

Education:

• Preference is given to a candidate with technical certifications (Cisco, Microsoft, etc.)
• University degree in a relevant field of study

Skills & Abilities:

• Knowledge of Cisco ISE, 802.1x, RADIUS and AAA
• Good knowledge of Cisco IOS, IOS-XE and NX-OS
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills
• Strong knowledge of automation toolsets, languages and APIs, e.g. Ansible, Python, PowerShell, Netconf, Restconf, etc.
• Minimum 5 years of progressive IT experience working in a complex environment with many distributed sites
• Good knowledge of Azure IaaS, and virtualized environments (VMware, Hyper-V, cloud)
• Good knowledge of Routing Protocols OSPF, EIGRP, BGP
• Good knowledge in diagnosing complex network performance issues and working with Network Monitoring systems, Wireshark, IPPERF, NETFLOW, IP SLA and other network troubleshooting / performance benchmarking techniques
• Good knowledge of DNS, DHCP, IPAM
• Resourceful and collaborative
• Quick learner
• Excellent organizational & multitasking skills
• Knowledge of Wi-Fi and 802.11 protocols, RF planning and troubleshooting
• Knowledge of branch technologies including VLAN, STO, VRRP, HSRP, SD-WAN on Cisco ISR 4000, Cisco Catalyst 2960, 3600, 9200, 9300 platforms
• Excellent customer service skills, positive attitude
• Experience in building and supporting large scale Wide Area Networks including MPLS, GRE, DMVPN with QoS
• Good knowledge of Palo Alto firewall management
• Strong team player
• Expertise of enterprise data center environments, concepts and technologies including but not limited to Cisco Nexus platforms, Cisco ASR, load balancers, data center virtualization

Effort

· Work requires mental effort, such as attentiveness and/or concentration, verifying, checking numbers, watching a computer screen and physical effort, such as keyboarding

Working Conditions

· Occasional need to work outside of office hours