Network DevOps Automation engineer

Overview

Hybrid
$100,000 - $120,000
Full Time
10% Travel

Skills

CISCO
Network Automation
NSO
Devops

Job Details

Network Automation

Salary: $120K Per annum + benefits

Location: Irving, TX (Onsite)

Network Automation/ Net DevOps resource who has good working experience on cisco network services orchestrator (NSO) and Java and/or Python.

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Job Overview

We are seeking an experienced DevOps Automation engineer to join our core network automation team. This is a pivotal role focused on enhancing automation, standardization and operational efficiency across a complex, highly secure global network infrastructure.

As a senior engineer you will play a critical role in designing and delivering automation solutions using Cisco Network Services Orchestrator (NSO), enabling seamless service provisioning and real-time configuration management across multi-vendor environments.

This is a fantastic opportunity to work within a high-performance team driving automation and orchestration strategies critical to supporting our global network that demand reliability, resilience and security.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead the design, development and deployment of services with Cisco NSO.
  • Automate provisioning and configuration of critical network infrastructure supporting trading platforms, data centers and enterprise connectivity.
  • Integrate NSO with existing systems including network inventory, security and management platforms (e.g. Nautobot, HashiCorp Vault, Cisco ISE, Splunk).
  • Contribute to NSO containerization, pipeline development and automation testing frameworks.
  • Work closely with network architects and cybersecurity teams to ensure automated changes comply with internal security and compliance policies.
  • Act as a subject matter expert and mentor junior automation engineers.
  • Participate in architectural planning and roadmap development for next-generation network automation initiatives.
  • Ensure high availability and performance of NSO platforms.

Key Experience and Skills

  • 5+ years of hands-on experience with Cisco NSO in complex, multi-vendor environments.
  • Strong experience with YANG modelling, XML, Java and/or Python service packages.
  • Experience with Cisco pyATS as an automation testing framework.
  • Proficient with Linux systems, scripting and troubleshooting.
  • Experience with version control (Git), CI/CD pipelines and tools like Docker, OpenShift and Harness.
  • A good understanding of enterprise IP networking, routing protocols/technologies (BGP, MPLS, VXLAN etc.) and routing/switching platforms from Cisco and Arista.
  • Experience working in Agile/Scrum delivery teams.
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