Lead Network Automation Engineer

Key Responsibilities :

- Design scalable automation solutions for network provisioning, configuration, policy enforcement, drift detection, and compliance reporting.

- Develop and maintain Python-based automation frameworks, reusable libraries, utilities, and tooling (logging, validation, retries, reporting).

- Build and standardize IaC patterns using Terraform and Ansible (modules, roles, collections, inventories).

- Implement model-driven network automation using NETCONF and YANG (RESTCONF exposure is a plus).

- Design Jinja template-driven configuration generation and enforce "golden configuration" standards.

- Architect and build microservice-based network automation applications, including REST/gRPC APIs, async execution, idempotency, and retry strategies.

- Expose automation workflows through secure APIs for provisioning, change execution, audits, and compliance checks.

- Integrate automation workflows with CI/CD pipelines, including approvals, testing, validation, and rollback mechanisms.

- Ensure all solutions meet security, auditability, and compliance requirements, preferably aligned with banking-grade practices.

- Mentor engineers, conduct design and code reviews, and drive automation and engineering best practices across the team.

Required Skills :

- Strong Python scripting expertise for network automation (API integrations, structured data, parsing, error handling, packaging).

- Proven hands-on experience with Terraform and Ansible in production environments.

- Practical experience with NETCONF and YANG for model-driven network automation.

- Strong expertise in Jinja templating for configuration generation and standardization.

- Hands-on experience designing and delivering microservice-based applications in the network or infrastructure domain.

- Solid networking fundamentals (routing, switching, VLANs, VPNs, DNS/DHCP, load balancers, firewalls).

- Strong Git practices and understanding of CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and network changes.

- Experience owning delivery or leading automation initiatives end-to-end.