Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. BlueAlly is seeking a Network Automation Engineer to support technical projects and client-focused engineering initiatives. The role develops and maintains Python-based network automation applications, hosts web applications on Linux servers, provides technical expertise across projects, and contributes to documentation, quality, compliance, and knowledge-sharing efforts.
Responsibilities
- Supports projects as a mid-to-senior team member with direction from a project lead and complies with the BlueAlly quality of delivering services
- May be part of a bigger delivery team and lead specific areas of a project related to the person’s expertise
- Provide engineering support and technical expertise across multiple projects aligned with client needs
- Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives and help ensure adherence to quality and compliance standards
- Ability to create technical written documentation independently and to deliver briefings to client stakeholders in a roundtable setting in areas relating to the person’s expertise
- Escalation of project impacting issues to the Delivery Directors or other appropriate leadership
- Develop and maintain Python applications that connect to network devices and collect configuration and operational data, make changes, or a combination of both
- Host web applications on Linux servers and be responsible for maintaining service uptime
- Contribute to internal documentation and knowledge sharing around automation tooling and best practices
Skills
- The person is expected to have deep experience and knowledge in their area of expertise with around 8 years of experience in the field
- Onsite attendance is required during the first week. Thereafter, candidates should be willing to attend onsite quarterly (one day per quarter or consolidated multi-day visits)
- Relevant engineering experience, ideally in a client-facing or project-driven environment
- Expertise in a technical area with direction from senior technical leadership on specific tasks
- Deep experience in 1 technical area, developing breadth across 1+ additional areas
- Aware of specific client business requirements and how technical solutions being implemented support those requirements
- Some experience and understanding specific to 1+ industries where the employee has worked
- Recognizes and can explain the business benefits their technical solution provides, short of quantifying those benefits
- Able to create technical written documents (e.g., RFP response content, detail design and deployment deliverables) against specific topics/assignments independently and with few grammatical mistakes
- Able to support, with guidance, the creation and delivery of select presentation content on specific technologies with which they have experience. Can deliver briefings to technical-to-mid level client stakeholders in a roundtable setting
- Understands the need for project and financial information to be compared and aligned to forecast(s)
- Recognizes and acts independently on the different billing objectives by project type (T&M, FFP, Managed Services)
- Consistently maintains one's own forecast on respective efforts. Mentors more junior members in doing the same
- Experience with Network Automation scripting and tooling. Examples: Ansible, Terraform, NetBox , and others
- Comfort working with REST APIs, data serialization formats (JSON, YAML), SQL Databases, and version control (Git)
- Proficiency in Python with practical experience building tools
- Comfort working on the Linux command line
- Experience with Flask framework
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent
- One CCNP level certification or dual CCNA level certifications desired. Alternates could include but are not limited to VCAP, JNCIS, CCSE, or PCNSE (as examples)
- Two+ certifications at the next level below these with hands-on experience behind each desired
- Experience with PyATS for writing network testcases
- Experience with using Gluware for network configuration auditing
- Experience developing with Netmiko in order to automate network devices
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