Python DevOps (Network Automation) Engineer

1 year contract | 100% Remote

** W2 ONLY ** NO C2C **

**Candidate must have superb Python coding skills.**
**There will be a coding test**

Key responsibilities

As a Python DevOps Network Automation Engineer you will be hands-on with the hardware, tools, code and services that make the network automation happen at global scale. You will be part of a team responsible for the design, implementation, and improvement of systems, services and processes that deploy, update, and maintain infrastructure supporting the client's digital network. In collaboration with network engineering teams you will be responsible for ensuring that our operations are scalable, continuous, and employing innovative methods for rapid provisioning and deployment of infrastructure as well as advancing reliable monitoring, management, and reporting solutions.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate and integrate existing vendor, commercial, and open source tools
• Design and develop tools and services to integrate existing products
• Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams to create API-driven processes
• Develop, maintain and support system standards through configuration management, automation templates and scripting, and version control
• Ensure appropriate system monitoring, alerting, and reporting is implemented and supported globally including uptime, performance, capacity, and utilization
• Embrace documentation and demonstration

Required Skills & Experience

Successful applications will have senior-level skills and hands-on production experience in most of these areas:

• Strong scripting/programming skills (python, ruby, bash, powershell, etc.)
• Coding against APIs (REST) and manipulating structured data (JSON, XML, etc.)
• Cloud configuration automation (Ansible, Salt, Vagrant, Terraform, Puppet, Chef, etc.)
• Build and CI/CD tools (Gitlab, Jenkins, Travis CI, etc.)
• Linux administration and core services (DNS, DHCP, logging, authn/z, etc.)

Desired Background

As we build our team we are looking for in-depth experience in one or more of these areas:

• Infrastructure network design and configuration, advanced routing, firewalls, and automation of network devices
• Hardware config protocols (PXE, POAP, ZTP, Redfish, etc.)
• VMware virtualization technology (vSphere, vRealize Suite, vCloud Director)
• Containers and serverless computing technology (Kubernetes, Docker, Cloud Foundry, AWS Lambda, etc.)
• Frontend, web, or dashboard UI/UX design and development experience

Qualifications

• 5+ years systems administration/engineering of virtualized infrastructure and/or cloud services
• Demonstrated expertise in automation, deployment, tuning, capacity, and performance monitoring of infrastructure cloud platforms and services