Our Client is a Global Financial Services Firm located in Jersey City. They are seeking a Network Automation Engineer.
HOW YOU WILL FULFILL YOUR POTENTIAL
• Identify the problem to be solved--what needs to be automated and why
• Determine the automation capabilities (e.g. APIs) of the products and platforms involved
• Design workflow and inventories that will serve as the foundation for building an automation solution
• Provide software specifications to software developers and work with them to bridge the gap between the problem and the solution
SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE WE ARE LOOKING FOR
• Understanding of data center, people building, and backbone network design, products, and protocols
• Experience configuring routers and switches in production environments
• Ability to document a complex process, split it logically it into subtasks, and turn it into requirements for developers to implement
• Experience testing network infrastructure (e.g. routers, switches) APIs in lab/POC environments, documenting results, and working with vendors to address deficiencies
• Experience automating network configuration deployment using modern scripting languages (e.g. JavaScript, Python)
• Aversion to doing anything manually more than once
Preferred Qualifications
• Experience with YANG modeling and NETCONF
• Experience with network automation tools/platforms (e.g. Cisco NSO, Ansible, NAPALM)
• Experience designing large networks (e.g. gathering business requirements, developing standards and best practices, conveying design intent to implementation and support teams)
• Experience designing network infrastructure deployment orchestration using inventory-backed processes, canonical design definitions, and no operator intervention in steady state
• Comfortable providing feature requests to vendors in a constructive and informative manner
• Intermediate or greater level experience with Node.js
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Last updated on Mar 18, 2019