Senior Network Automation Engineer

AHEAD builds platforms for digital business. By weaving together advances in cloud infrastructure, automation and analytics, and software delivery, we help enterprises deliver on the promise of digital transformation.

At AHEAD, we prioritize creating a culture of belonging, where all perspectives and voices are represented, valued, respected, and heard. We create spaces to empower everyone to speak up, make change, and drive the culture at AHEAD.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and do not discriminate based on an individual's race, national origin, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, marital status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law, whether actual or perceived.

We embrace all candidates that will contribute to the diversification and enrichment of ideas and perspectives at AHEAD.

Internally known as a Senior Technical Consultant.

Responsibilities

• Work with colleagues on developing network automation solutions
• Translate high-level and low-level designs into reality delivering high-impact solutions to our clients
• Work daily in an IDE of your choice to be implementing solutions using a variety of tools and technology such as Ansible, Python, Django, Jenkins, Jinja, pyATS, Terraform, device APIs, Chatbots, and much more.
• Participate in daily standups to review your progress on projects being vocal on what you’ve accomplished, what your next steps are, and if you have any blockers
• Participate in the peer review process by reviewing projects, designs, and code for various network automation projects
• Conduct research to stay updated on the latest trends and projects in the network automation industry
• Build and maintain a CI/CD pipelines to ensure code quality and maintainability
• Help prioritize feature development based on client deliverables
• Translate manual workflows into automation based on low-level designs
• Work with colleagues to make informed decisions on solutions delivered to our clients
• Articulate AHEAD’s message and common network automation use cases

Qualifications

• Ability to break down complex concepts and present them in a clean and concise way
• Ability to travel at minimum 4 times a year to client sites, additional travel could be for conferences, internal events, and others possible opportunities
• Comfort performing your day-to-day development in a Linux environment
• Extensive experience with Ansible, Terraform and/or Python automating networking devices
• Experience with Django for creating custom APIs
• Awareness of tools and libraries such as pytest, Nornir, NAPALM, and Batfish
• Familiarity with CI/CD and how it could be applied to network automation
• Familiarity with concepts around data management including Source of Truth strategy, NetBox/NautoBot, CMDB, and management of variables within YAML files
• Familiarity with traditional Git workflows for working in a collaborative environment
• Familiarity with Docker, specifically building, maintaining, and deploying custom containers
• 3+ years in infrastructure automation at scale
• Passion for customer experience and success
• Solicitude in helping customers throughout their automation journey
• A collaborative, team approach, working on internal and external efforts
• The drive necessary to see a project through to completion

Why AHEAD:

Through our daily work and internal groups like Moving Women AHEAD and RISE AHEAD, we value and benefit from diversity of people, ideas, experience, and everything in between.

We fuel growth by stacking our office with top-notch technologies in a multi-million-dollar lab, by encouraging cross department training and development, sponsoring certifications and credentials for continued learning.

We understand that you have a life outside of work. That’s why we offer paid time off, paid company holidays, and a great benefits program including maternity/paternity leave and much more!