Network Operations Specialist
This role involves designing, developing, and implementing automation and tooling to streamline network operations while ensuring scalability and reliability of the global network.
* Design and develop scalable and reliable automation workflows for network operations.
* Conceptualize and build tools to support next-generation network products, deployment, release engineering, and operations.
* Develop operational process improvements and implement them in automated workflows to enhance operational efficiency.
* Lead enhancements of automation for continuous integration, validation, testing infrastructure, release, and configuration management across the global data center network fleet.
* Investigate complex technical issues across networks, ranging from automated tooling to hardware failures and network issues.
* Participate in a weekly on-call rotation with the team and be the escalation contact for service.
* Identify operational gaps that impact efficiency and drive project execution directly and through influence of other team members.
* Contribute to team growth and development through peer mentorship.
Required Skills and Qualifications
* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
* Experience developing software to automate operations.
* 5+ years of experience developing and understanding network device configurations for at least one network vendor (e.g. Arista, Juniper, Cisco, Brocade, Ciena, Infinera, Nokia).
* 5+ years of coding experience in at least one programming language (e.g. Python, Go, C++).
* Demonstrated knowledge of TCP, IPv4/6, Routing Protocols (one or more of BGP, MPLS, ISIS, or similar), or related network services (e.g. DHCP and DNS).