Network Automation Engineer

Summary

Join Voltage Park, a cloud provider offering transparent GPU access, as an experienced Network Automation Engineer. You will play a key role in designing, developing, and implementing automated systems to streamline operations and enhance efficiency. As an early hire, you will have significant influence on company culture. This is a remote position with occasional travel. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams and utilize various automation tools and technologies. The ideal candidate possesses deep expertise in networking technologies and automation frameworks.

Requirements

• Deep understanding of contemporary networking technologies such as IP Clos, VXLAN, EVPN, and multi-tiered data center architectures
• Deep understanding and experience with network automation frameworks, specifically Ansible, Puppet, Terraform, or other
• Deep experience leveraging automation tools and platforms, including Nautobot/Netbox or other database-driven Sources of Truth
• Very strong experience with Python, Rust, Go, or other development language, as well as Vendor-supplied automation environments such as Arista CloudVision or Juniper Apstra
• Strong experience using Netconf and Restful APIs to effect changes to a production network environment in near-real time
• Understand full-stack architectures inclusive of Customer-driven workflows, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and CI/CD deployment models, Cloud Service Provider (CSP) Network Orchestration & Automation, Sources of Truth, Network Observability and Telemetry, and knowing how open source can lead or compliment a given architecture

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement network and service activation automation to support AI infrastructure
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and deploy automated solutions
• Monitor and maintain automation systems to ensure optimal performance
• Troubleshoot and resolve automation issues in a timely manner
• Implement cloud security measures to protect automated systems
• Utilize virtualization technologies for automation processes
• Create and maintain Ansible scripts for automation tasks
• Provide network support and configure firewalls as needed
• Works closely with SRE and Development teams to propose and develop code for integrated Operations environments, with a key focus on composable and re-usable code
• Works with fellow Engineers to build automation designs, including developing a tech stack, developing proper levels of abstraction, and guidance on best practices
• Performs peer reviews, guidance, and contributes to best practices of code
• Develops well-written technical documentation that documents solutions
• Participate in an On-call rotation

Benefits

Remote role, with occasional travel