Automation Engineer, Cisco CNC Upgrade

Job Description:

• Design, develop, and maintain network automation solutions using Cisco CNC, Cisco NSO, Nokia NSP, Python, APIs, and related technologies
• Automate network configuration, validation, monitoring, compliance, remediation, and maintenance across multi-vendor infrastructure
• Build automated pre-checks and post-checks to verify routing, interfaces, adjacencies, reachability, and overall network health
• Detect and remediate configuration drift, device synchronization issues, and deviations from network engineering standards
• Integrate automation platforms with inventory, telemetry, monitoring, alarming, ticketing, and source-of-truth systems
• Develop telemetry-driven and closed-loop automation to identify network issues and support automated remediation
• Troubleshoot automation failures, controller issues, API integrations, and device-level problems; perform root-cause analysis
• Identify repetitive manual processes and recurring failure patterns that can be reduced through automation
• Maintain safe automation practices through testing, CI/CD, version control, rollback mechanisms, change validation, and blast-radius controls
• Create operational tooling, dashboards, documentation, and runbooks that improve network visibility, troubleshooting, compliance, and engineering efficiency
• Collaborate with network engineering teams to standardize operational practices and reduce manual intervention

Requirements:

• Fundamental understanding of service provider networking, including TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, MPLS, SNMP, and network telemetry
• Professional experience supporting or engineering large-scale service provider networks
• Experience with network automation and orchestration platforms such as Cisco CNC, Cisco NSO, Nokia NSP, or similar technologies
• Strong Python scripting skills for network automation, tooling, and API integrations
• Experience with REST APIs, NETCONF/RESTCONF, YANG, or other network programmability technologies
• Experience with Linux/Unix systems and troubleshooting network automation platforms and integrations
• Experience with network monitoring, telemetry, configuration validation, and operational troubleshooting
• Familiarity with Git, CI/CD, testing, and software development practices for maintaining production network automation
• Associate’s degree in computer science, software engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)
• Minimum of 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