Job Title: Network Automation Engineer

Duration : 06+ Months

Location: Menlo Park, CA - Onsite

Responsibilities:

• Create software tools and services and or custom fit existing services to customer requirements. e.g - source of truth asset management system.
• Perform network audits to evaluate: Capacity usage (BW, space, power, etc), unused devices.
• Configure & deploy dashboards to visualize KPIs from audits.
• Use best practices to deploy scripts for alerting, monitoring (telemetry gathering), and modifying configuration. Write and maintain documentation for scripts written and deployed.
• Drive Software release management, Test & Validation including Release life cycle management.
• Deploy & operate networks in public cloud environments.
• Development of test automation tooling/framework that can be used to interface and configure lab testbeds.
• Deploy agents to monitor networks by using internal tools and enriching existing data.
• Software expertise to develop code and or script to communicate with APIs, orchestration of test execution and data extraction.
• Working with test engineers to develop scripts, tools, capabilities that will accelerate the execution of various test campaigns.
• Work with test engineers during test campaigns to troubleshoot/debug, identify issues/fixes.
• Create documentation of lab testbeds, block diagrams, network diagrams, system configuration, runbooks/procedures, output reports.
• Configure & deploy dashboards to visualize KPIs from test data pipelines.
• Support PoC to deploy new systems, workflows or testing alternatives.
• Upgrade existing client tools like PPP, Basset with new category of HW devices e.g - chassis, systems, compute/network blade, asic, NIC.
• Write test automation scripts using keysight/ixia framework and integrate that with client internal tooling.
• Upgrade existing software and deployment packages to meet custom customer requirements and deploy to a fleet of lab devices.
• Design, deploy and manage backend networking for HPC cluster using L3 routing protocols, congestion control mechanism WRED-ECN/PFC is required

Recommended Qualifications:

• Subject matter expertise in IP Networking/Routing & Switching (TCP/IP, IPv4/v6, BGP, EVPN/Vxlan) network certifications, such as CCNA/CCNP, JNCIA/JNCIS, RHCSA or equivalent experience.
• Experience with 100G/400G Ethernet. Experience configuring and troubleshooting routing and switching protocols (BGP, IS-IS, MPLS, RSVP-TE, VRRP).
• Analyzing tactical situations, troubleshooting, root causing systems and tools, and problem solving via tasks or larger cross functional projects.
• Release life cycle management experience with software development and CI/CD.
• Experience working in a multi-vendor environment with hands-on experience with networking hardware.
• Reasonable expertise with scripting and automation languages like python, bash, thrift, protobuf, golang.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Expertise with Linux based systems to be able to debug and root cause server issues from application issue to network issue.
• Hands-on experience with public cloud environments
• Experience with python scripting / ansible for scripting and automation
• Ability to "read code" as source documentation
• DevOps CI/CD mindset for automation and scale