Automation Engineer, Cisco CNC Upgrade

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Create, develop, and sustain network automation solutions utilizing Cisco CNC, Cisco NSO, Nokia NSP, Python, APIs, and associated technologies.

• Automate network configuration, validation, monitoring, compliance, remediation, and upkeep across a multi-vendor infrastructure.

• Establish automated pre-checks and post-checks to confirm routing, interfaces, adjacencies, reachability, and overall network health.

• Identify and rectify configuration drift, device synchronization problems, and non-compliance with network engineering standards.

• Integrate automation platforms with inventory, telemetry, monitoring, alerting, ticketing, and source-of-truth systems.

• Develop telemetry-driven and closed-loop automation to detect network issues and facilitate automated remediation.

• Diagnose automation failures, controller problems, API integrations, and device-level issues; conduct root-cause analysis.

• Recognize repetitive manual processes and recurring failure patterns that can be minimized through automation.

• Uphold safe automation practices through testing, CI/CD, version control, rollback mechanisms, change validation, and blast-radius controls.

• Generate operational tools, dashboards, documentation, and runbooks that enhance network visibility, troubleshooting, compliance, and engineering efficiency.

• Collaborate with network engineering teams to standardize operational practices and decrease manual intervention.

⛳️ Requirements

• Basic knowledge of service provider networking, including TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, MPLS, SNMP, and network telemetry.

• Professional experience in supporting or engineering large-scale service provider networks.

• Familiarity with network automation and orchestration platforms such as Cisco CNC, Cisco NSO, Nokia NSP, or comparable technologies.

• Proficient Python scripting abilities for network automation, tooling, and API integrations.

• Experience with REST APIs, NETCONF/RESTCONF, YANG, or other network programmability technologies.

• Knowledge of Linux/Unix systems and troubleshooting network automation platforms and integrations.

• Experience with network monitoring, telemetry, configuration validation, and operational troubleshooting.

• Understanding of Git, CI/CD, testing, and software development practices for maintaining production network automation.

• Associate’s degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).

• At least three (3) years of experience in software engineering, network engineering, or network automation support roles.

• Not eligible for employment-based visa sponsorship.

🏝️ Benefits

• Excellent Health, Dental & Vision Insurance.

• Retirement 401(k) Savings Plan.

• Generous paid time off policy including paid parental leave.

• Potential eligibility for a discretionary annual incentive plan.

• Life insurance.

• Disability plans.

• Equal opportunity employment and reasonable accommodation support.