Lead Network Engineer

Role Overview: You will be joining Wells Fargo as a Lead Network Engineer with a strong passion for automation and modern deployment practices. Your primary responsibility will be to drive an automation-first culture within the organization, specifically focusing on network automation in data center environments. Your role will involve contributing to the development of scalable, programmable infrastructure to support rapid deployment, configuration consistency, and operational efficiency. By implementing Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP) and other automation frameworks, you will streamline data center buildouts and lifecycle management, ultimately accelerating project timelines, reducing manual intervention, and minimizing risk. This position is perfect for someone who excels in fast-paced environments and is dedicated to transforming legacy processes into intelligent, automated workflows. Key Responsibilities: - Lead the review, resolution, and implementation of complex technical issues related to large-scale network infrastructure, automation platforms, and data systems. - Design and implement scalable network automation solutions using tools such as Nautobot, Ansible, and Python, ensuring alignment with business and operational goals. - Develop and integrate APIs to automate network provisioning, configuration, monitoring, and troubleshooting across multi-vendor environments. - Create and utilize diagnostic, simulation, and orchestration tools to maintain, troubleshoot, and restore service or data to network systems. - Evaluate and optimize automation workflows, including parsing queries, extracting data, and performing limited programming to fine-tune supported systems. - Research performance trends and recommend process improvements to enhance automation efficiency, reliability, and scalability. - Perform complex migrations, upgrades, installations, and configurations of network automation platforms and supporting infrastructure. - Make strategic decisions in security and compliance to design and implement robust, secure, and auditable network automation solutions. - Assess changes for risk to production systems, ensuring quality, security, and compliance requirements are met across supported areas. - Identify gaps in current network and automation processes, recommending changes to support Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and operational excellence. - Collaborate and consult with cross-functional teams, including network engineers, software developers, and managers, to resolve issues and achieve automation goals. Qualification Required: - 5+ years of Network Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education. - BE/B.Tech/ME/M.Tech in Computer Science/Information Technology/Al/Data Science. - Develop Automation scripts using Python, Ansible, YAML. - Leverage Python REST APIs to develop Zero Touch provisioning. - Have experience with Ansible Tower, GitHub, Gi Actions, CI/CD-tools. - Exposure to Data Center/Service provider networking. - Expertise in Network Protocols- OSPF BGP, MPLS, L3VPN, EVPN, VxLAN. - Knowledge on Cloud Networking would be a plus. - Experience in Agile methodologies and tools like Serum and JIRA. - Ability to communicate effectively and foster an automation community within the organization. - Mentor and upskill juniors and interns, providing growth opportunities. - Good social, oral, and written communication skills are preferred.,