Lead - Network Automation

• You'll be working in an international and multi-skills Network Automation Squad, actively participating in design and development activities for new workflows to be automated . This involves understanding the requirements raised by the other Allianz Global Network squads/products, being exposed to different network technologies.
• We believe in an open source, vendor-agnostic and data driven approach, that can be tailored to the customers needs.
• The goal is to lead Allianz Global Network and its customers towards self-service and self-healing network

Key Skills

• Strong coding background developing code in Python (using modules and JSON and/or Ansible (playbooks, YAML, Jinja2 templates)
• Designing and support/coordinate development of end-to-end workflows including integration with different solutions and systems (eg, Vault, AWX, ITSM)
• Familiarity/experience with Nautobot/Netbox, Network Automation Source of Truth
• Have systems and infrastructure skills about, for example, Kubernetes, VMware virtualization, Docker. General, basic Linux skills and Cloud understanding. Experience in coordinating/planning the infrastructure maintenance (eg, update products releases, patches/fixes)

Additional Skills

• Be familiar with Git development practices and Agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban approaches).
• Network domains knowledge as Firewall, LAN, WAN, Load Balancers, Proxy etc
• Be familiar with monitoring topics (alerting, telemetry)
• Experienced with REST and/or RESTFul API architecture and integration design
• AI interest and experience

Activities/Responsibilities

• Support discovery/analysis activities related to new workflows based on other products requirements and work with the internal customers structuring their use cases
• Design and coordinate the development activities, understanding the eventual dependencies and architectural decisions to be taken
• Support the backlog definition and prioritization (eg, Sprint planning)
• Contribute to architecture/design discussions with the team, but also with internal customers and end users
• Contribute to discussions and/or requirements with vendors/communities to ensure adopted technologies and standards are updated and following best practices
• Contribute to technical coordination/planning of the underlying infrastructure (Kubernetes/Docker/Cloud environment) and the already developed code and integration operation and maintenance
• Create and review technical and functional documentation
• Be available/willing to coach junior colleagues and collaborate with/support Squad members