Network Automation Engineer

Network Automation Engineer

1. Automation & Orchestration Engineering

• Develop and maintain network automation platforms using industrystandard orchestrators (e.g., Ansible, Terraform, Python,NSO, SaltStack, StackStorm).
• Build scalable workflow engines to automate provisioning, configuration, compliance, and operational tasks.
• Implement reusable automation modules, libraries, and pipelines with strong testing and validation.

2. Data Modelling

• Create and maintain data models (YANG, JSON, YAML, XML) for configurations, inventory, and service definitions.
• Map network business requirements to logical service models and templates.
• Establish relationships between topology, inventory, and configuration datasets

3. Workflow Execution & Orchestration

• Design and implement multi-stage workflows for provisioning, change management, upgrades, and rollback routines.
• Integrate orchestrators with external systems (ITSM, CI/CD, CMDB, monitoring, IPAM).
• Implement task scheduling, dependency handling, and distributed execution capabilities.

4. Standards, Governance, and Guardrails

• Define automation development standards, coding guidelines, and peerreview processes.
• Implement guardrails for safe automation execution (prechecks, simulation modes, drift detection).
• Ensure secure handling of credentials, API keys, secrets, and sensitive network data.

5. Compliance & Validation

• Automate policy enforcement and configuration compliance using templates and rules (e.g., security baselines, golden configs).
• Develop continuous-validation pipelines for posture checks, drift remediation, and audit reporting.

6. Inventory, Topology, and Versioning

• Build and maintain dynamic inventory systems for devices, services, and configurations.
• Implement configuration version control, differential analysis, and automated rollback mechanisms.
• Maintain topology databases to support dependency mapping and impact assessments

7. Zero-Touch Provisioning (ZTP)

• Develop automated onboarding workflows for network devices (Day0 to Day2).
• Integrate ZTP with DHCP/TFTP/HTTP/Bootstrap servers and orchestrators.
• Ensure secure provisioning pipelines with validation, patching, and bootstrap config generation.

8. Frontend Development (Self-Service Portals)

• Build user-friendly web interfaces for triggering workflows, viewing inventory, and managing automation tasks.
• Develop dashboards for compliance, topology, workflow status, and configuration state.

Integrate portals with backend APIs and authentication frameworks (SSO, RBAC).

• Endtoend automated network workflows.
• A unified automation framework with strong governance and reusable components.
• Self-service automation capabilities for operations and engineering teams.
• Consistent compliance, configuration quality, and version control across network domains.
• Reduced operational effort through standardized, safe, automated processes.
• Strong documentation and communication abilities.
• Ability to work cross-functionally with network engineers, cloud teams, and security teams.
• Problemsolving mindset with focus on operational reliability.
• Self-driven with a passion for automation and simplification.