Network Automation Engineer - Federal Customer

(on-site role, Chantilly, VA 5 days per week - require active TS/SCI clearance)

If you enjoy working with new technologies, enterprise-leading equipment, and seeking to optimize systems to achieve maximum performance, we would like to speak to you. This position will play a key role in driving the performance, stability, and scalability of next-generation networks to support enterprise Information Technology (IT) workloads.

You will join a diverse team of software and platform engineers to design, deploy, and maintain network infrastructure. You will collaborate with people inside and outside the organization to deliver the highest standards for building, deploying, and scaling networks.

The Network Automation Engineer is focused on automating the deployment and support of critical network infrastructure. This includes interacting directly with networking hardware (switches, routers, firewalls, etc.) and enterprise software-defined control planes.

Key Job Responsibilities

Network Automation Engineers perform high-quality network and systems operations, deployments, scaling, technology refresh, sustaining engineering, best practices applications, optimization, internal/external customer interactions, and produce appropriate technical documentation.

· Create and implement changes through automation

· Deliver simple, sustainable, and repeatable solutions and processes

· Operate and trouble-shoot network routing, interconnectivity, platforms, performance, and configuration issues; including low level application interaction, Linux systems, and next-gen networking software tools

· Maintain standards across the networking toolset and ensure that we are fully compliant with those standards and policies

· Drive and support innovation from Top of Rack to the Network Border and everything in between

· Work closely with the Network Architect to ensure fast, smooth roll-out of new designs and products, as well as assist with deployment and sustaining of network infrastructure and tooling

· Proficient in either Python or Go programming language

· Experience working with networking protocols and APIs, ideally Open vSwitch and/or any RESTful APIs for network devices and services

· Proficient in network topologies and architecture (VLAN, LAN, WAN)

· Experience with automation frameworks, specifically Ansible, to write scripts and automate network configurations

· Experience with SONiC and Cumulus Network Operating System (NOS)