Network Automation Engineer

ROLE: Network Automation Engineer

Business Justification/Executive Summary

We are seeking a Greenfield Network Automation Engineer to design and build automation from the ground up for Arista-based environments.

The role will architect and implement playbooks, frameworks, and automated test suites that provision, monitor, and validate large-scale network topologies running Arista EOS. This is a hands-on role spanning software engineering, network engineering, and DevOps owning the full SDLC, integrating with CI/CD pipelines, and establishing the standards, controls, and telemetry needed for a high-scale, secure automation platform. Collaboration across development, test, and operations to deliver frictionless self-service for internal customers while improving reliability, speed, and security is a key to the role.

Location: Remote

Shift: US First Shift (EST)

Experience

Additional Responsibilities

• Design & Build Greenfield Automation

• Architect reusable Ansible/Python frameworks, roles, and modules for Arista EOS.
• Develop abstracted device classes/methods to provision, configure, and monitor devices at scale.

• Automated Testing & Quality

• Create maintainable automated test suites and integrate into CI/CD (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD).
• Monitor execution, analyze failures, perform root cause analysis, and publish clear, actionable bug reports.

• Provisioning, Observability & Security

• Implement automation for provisioning/validation via REST, OpenConfig, gNMI and Ansible.
• Build logging/metrics/telemetry and security controls so the platform runs efficiently and flawlessly.

• Standards, SDLC & Enablement

• Own/evolve security and development standards, controls, and documentation across the full SDLC.
• Translate business/technical workflows into executable Ansible/Python code and authoritative runbooks.
• Contribute to internal enablement: documentation, code reviews, and mentoring on automation best practices.

Required Qualifications

• Automation & Scripting:

  Ansible and/or Python (57 yrs), YAML, JSON, infrastructure-based scripting.

• Networking:

  Knowledge of VXLAN, BGP, EVPN; experience with

  Arista switches

  and

  Cloud Vision Portal (CVP)

  .

• APIs & Tools:

  REST, OpenConfig, bgNMI;

  Git

  ; CI/CD (Jenkins/GitLab);

  Linux

  (preferred);

  Itential

  (preferred).

• Experience:

  5–7 yrs in network infrastructure; proven SDLC delivery; automation design patterns; security controls.

• Soft Skills:

• Excellent interpersonal, organizational and communication (written, verbal, and presentation) skills are a must.
• Proven ability to work independently with minimal supervision and as part of a global team with direct responsibilities and an ability to juggle competing priorities and adapt to changes in project scope.

Desired Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS/EE or equivalent.
• Experience qualifying/automating Arista EOS networks at scale and working with Arista CVP.
• Terraform for network automation.
• CCIE (Data Center or Routing & Switching)
• Experience in large-scale data center deployments
• Familiarity with network monitoring and telemetry tools