Network Automation Engineer (Contract)

About the client:

A MNC Company.

Responsibilities:

• Ansible Network Automation

• Design and develop reusable Ansible Playbooks, Roles and custom Collections for multi-vendor network automation.
• Automate network provisioning, configuration management, software upgrades, configuration backups and operational workflows.
• Develop idempotent, state-aware automation with error handling, validation and rollback capabilities.
• Automate configuration compliance, drift detection and remediation across network devices.
• Develop reusable automation frameworks and follow coding standards, version control and peer-review practices.

• Python and Network Programmability

• Develop Python scripts and automation components to extend Ansible capabilities.
• Integrate automation workflows with network devices and platforms using REST APIs, NETCONF, RESTCONF and YANG.
• Work with structured data formats such as JSON and YAML.
• Integrate automation with network inventory and IPAM platforms such as NetBox and Infoblox.

3. CI/CD and Automation Testing

• Build and maintain automation pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD or equivalent tools.
• Implement automated pre-change and post-change validation, testing and configuration verification.
• Use tools such as Pytest, Cisco pyATS/Genie and other relevant testing frameworks.
• Implement approval gates, execution controls, audit trails and automated recovery mechanisms where supported.

• Automation Platform and Operations

• Develop and maintain automation workflows using Ansible Automation Platform, Automation Controller or AWX.
• Build and manage containerised execution environments using Podman or Docker.
• Integrate automation with enterprise secrets management, monitoring, logging and IT service management platforms.
• Maintain automation documentation, operational runbooks and reusable standards.
• Troubleshoot automation failures and continuously improve workflow reliability and execution efficiency.

Requirement:

• Hands-on experience with Ansible Playbooks, Roles, Collections, inventories and network automation modules.
• Practical Python scripting skills and experience with libraries such as Netmiko and NAPALM.
• Experience automating Cisco IOS-XE, IOS-XR, NX-OS, Juniper Junos and/or Arista EOS environments.
• Knowledge of network protocols and technologies, including BGP, OSPF, VLANs, VRFs and EVPN-VXLAN, to support automation requirements.
• Experience with REST APIs, NETCONF, RESTCONF, YANG, JSON and YAML.
• Hands-on experience with Git, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing and containerised execution environments.