Sr. Network Automation Engineer

Overview:

TekWissen Group is a workforce management provider throughout the USA and many other countries in the world. Our client is a global operator, franchisor, and licensor of hotel, residential, and timeshare properties. The company is primarily focused on management, franchising, and licensing of its lodging properties. It also occasionally develops, acquires or renovates hotel and residential properties, directly and through partnerships, joint ventures, and other business structures with third parties.

Position: Sr. Network Automation Engineer

Location: Bethesda MD 20817

Duration: 3 Months

Job Type: Contract

Work Type: Remote

Job Description:

• You have proven design and implementation experience in different networking technologies such as Route & Switch networks, Firewalls, WAN, Network Monitoring Tools, and Network security infrastructure.

• You also have a passion to find out network operations use cases and automate them using tools such as Ansible and Python.

• You are eager to listen to business, abstract the complexity from it and provide intelligent automated solutions.

• You will ideally come with a complex Networking background, who has then moved towards automating the daily network operational and compliance tasks.

• You have a passion to automate everything, and nothing can stop you from finding a way to do that.

You will:

• Be working closely and collaboratively with expert network architects and great engineers.

• Be key contributor to drive adoption of Network Automation practices and operating models across all global network teams.

• You will be accountable for establishing technical level relationships and partnering with all business disciplines and other MI teams to define and implement the network automation solution.

CANDIDATE PROFILE

Minimum qualifications and experience required:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field experience/certification

• 8+ years' experience as a Network Engineer with Designing and Implementing complex networking.

• 4+ years of experience with automating network functions through tools such as Ansible and Ansible Tower.

• 2+ years of experience with writing Python applications to support network automation.

• 2+ years of experience in building Network test and deployment automation pipelines using Git and CICD tools such as Github, Gitlab and Jenkins.

• 2+ years of experience in Network automation software, libraries, and tools such as Netmiko, Nornir, Netbox, PyATS, Genie, F5 SDK, Pan-os-python etc.

• 2+ years' experience as being part of network operations team.

Technical Skills required:

• Certification in network and/or security technologies (e.g., CCIE, CCNP, CISSP, Cisco DevNet,etc.)

• Developing Ansible automations to manage network devices (Cisco, HP, Checkpoint, PaloAlto, ect)

• Experience automating network platforms via Ansible Tower

• Experience working in a GitOps, DevOps and Test-driven culture and managing code life cycle using Git and related processes & tools.

• Knowledge with python web development (Apache, Flask, WSGI, Docker, K8's, HTML/CSS) to create custom network management tools

• Knowledge managing Linux platforms.

• Experience working in a Scrum team or other Agile methodologies

• Experience in researching emerging technologies and trends, standards, and products and synthesizing into clear
  technology roadmaps and strategies

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills for a wide range of audiences including executives, business stakeholders, and IT teams

General networking background expected:

• Implementation of WAN, LAN, and datacenter networks with a focus on mission-critical, customer-facing applications and
  services

• Technical knowledge in networking (Cisco and non-Cisco) with an emphasis on Datacenter networks, WAN, LAN, Network security and Management tools and core network services such as DNS, NTP & IPAM.

• Demonstrated experience in delivering written documents detailing network solutions and diagrams

Core work activities

• As an individual contributor or member of a project team support successful implementation of network automation projects

• Provides technical input to the overall architectural and operational discussions around network automation infrastructure and tools.

• Act as a network developer to developer to develop innovative solutions and write python and Ansible code on daily basis.

• Act as an active contributor in delivering our products in time by participating and delivering work through scrum practices.

• Conducts research, design and implementation of Network infrastructure Automation solutions and build standard practices across enterprise operations.

• Make contributions to other Network automation solutions that enhance the operations and cost structures of the environment

• Create and make available project documentation with a focus on communicating technical features and functions of solutions

• Works closely with department leadership and service providers to support alignment of plans with solution delivery

• Participates in and suggests improvements to standards configuration, change management processes and practices

• Develop test plans, implementation plans, and project timelines for various projects and tasks

TOP MUST HAVE SKILLS:

• Developing Ansible Automations to manage network devices (Cisco, HP, Checkpoint, PaloAlto, etc.)

• Experience automating network platforms via Ansible Tower

• Experience working in a GitOps, DevOps and Test-driven culture and managing code life cycle using Git and related processes & tools.

• Knowledge with Python Web development (Apache, Flask, WSGI, Docker, K8's, HTML/CSS) to create custom network management tools

• Knowledge managing Linux platforms.

• Experience working in a Scrum team or other Agile methodologies

TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity/affirmative action Employer (m/f/d/v) supporting workforce diversity.