Position: DevOps Sr. Network Engineer
Location: Bethesda, MD, 20814
Duration: 3+ Months
Job Type: Contract
Work Type: Hybrid
Pay Rate: $70/hr TO 72 /hr on W2
Job Description:
- Automation being a huge part of the global network strategy, we are looking for an enthusiastic team member with passion to innovate and excel, to join our amazing Network DevOps team as Senior Network DevOps Engineer.
- The Network DevOps team is responsible for client’s Global Network and automates, maintains and manages the Core network services, Network Monitoring tools and Security infrastructure.
- The team is tasked to automate 100% of the Global Network operations and find innovative ways to improve the global end-user experience.
- We are building the next generation innovative and self-healing network automation platform and are eager to find people to help us achieve these goals and beyond.
The deal candidate has:
- Proven design and implementation experience in different networking technologies such as Routers & Switches, Firewalls, WAN, Network Monitoring Tools, and Network security infrastructure.
- A passion to find out network operations use cases and automate them using tools such as Ansible and Python.
- An eagerness to listen to business, abstract the complexity from it and provide intelligent automated solutions.
- A comprehensive Networking background, who has then moved towards automating the daily network operational and compliance tasks.
- A passion to automate everything, and nothing can stop you from finding a way to do that.
You will:
- Be working closely and collaboratively with expert network architects and great engineers.
- Be a key contributor to drive adoption of Network Automation practices and operating models across all Global Network teams.
- Be accountable for establishing technical level relationships and partnering with all business disciplines and other MI teams to define and implement the network automation solution.
CANDIDATE PROFILE
- Minimum qualifications and experience required:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related technical field experience/certification
- 7+ years’ experience as a Network Engineer with Designing and Implementing complex networking.
- 6+ years of experience with automating network functions through tools such as Ansible, Python, Terraform etc.
- 4+ years of experience with writing Python applications to support network automation.
- 3+ years of experience in building Network test and deployment automation pipelines using Git and CICD tools such as GitActions, Jenkins, Harness & Helm charts.
- 2+ years’ experience as being part of network operations team.