Network Management Support Engineer

Description

The candidate will be responsible for configuring the network management toolset to ensure proper network device support with respect to data collection, representation, reporting, and overall orchestration workflows. Provide oversight and technical guidance to Configuration Lifecycle Manage squad to ensure delivery of the team 's goals. Provide management to both local and remote groups of persons and escalation points for Automation Engineering. Ensure knowledge of tools and processes is shared across contributors and that adherence to standards is maintained. Working with other tooling squads leads to defining tooling standards that maximize operational effectiveness and act as a team interface between Network Operations and the Engineering, Deployment, and Security teams. Facilitate and coordinate work with external vendors for tooling updates and upgrades. Adapt and transform operational and/or functional needs into solutions.

Qualifications

Must have:

Proven background in leading network automation teams, having necessary hands-on experience to provide technical guidance where necessary.

Experience with Agile working practices and tutoring/coaching others.

4 years of experience automating network infrastructure tasks using shell and python (or another higher-level language).

4 years of experience automating networks using configuration management systems such as Ansible, Chef, Salt, or, Puppet.

4 years of experience with building pipelines such as Jenkins, Gitlab, etc.

Understanding of how to programmatically interact with network devices and NMS systems via API (REST, SOAP, OpenAPI).

Understanding of data or voice network device configurations and common networking protocols to equivalent CCNA Level or above

5 years of Linux development experience

Experience with the following as desired:

Web UI (JavaScript, HTML5, Angular, etc)

DB admin (Sybase, Mongo)

Data pipeline architecture (NiFi, Kafka, Flume)

Scripting glue: Python

Northbound and Southbound NMS API

Spark/Scala

Data Science / Big-Data