Network Automation Engineer - Firewall

Youll be working in an international and multi-skills Network Automation Squad, actively participating in design and development activities for new workflows to be automated.

This involves understanding the requirements raised by the other Allianz Global Network squads/products, being exposed to different network technologies.

We believe in an open source, vendor-agnostic and data driven approach, that can be tailored to the customers needs.

The goal is to lead Allianz Global Network and its customers towards self-service and self-healing network.

Key Skills :

- Strong coding background developing code in Python (using modules and JSON files) and/or Ansible (playbooks, YAML, Jinja2 templates).

- Designing and support/coordinate development of end-to-end workflows including integration with different solutions and systems (e.g., Vault, AWX, ITSM).

- Familiarity/experience with Nautobot/Netbox, Network Automation Source of Truth.

- Have systems and infrastructure skills about, for example, Kubernetes, VMware virtualization, Docker.

- General, basic Linux skills and Cloud understanding.

- Experience in coordinating/planning the infrastructure maintenance (e.g., update products releases, patches/fixes).

Additional Skills :

- Be familiar with Git development practices and Agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban approaches).

- Network domains knowledge as Firewall, LAN, WAN, Load Balancers, Proxy etc.

- Be familiar with monitoring topics (alerting, telemetry).

- Experienced with REST and/or RESTFul API architecture and integration design.

- AI interest and experience.

Activities/Responsibilities :

- Support discovery/analysis activities related to new workflows based on other products requirements and work with the internal customers structuring their use cases.

- Design and coordinate the development activities, understanding the eventual dependencies and architectural decisions to be taken.

- Support the backlog definition and prioritization (e.g., Sprint planning).

- Contribute to architecture/design discussions with the team, but also with internal customers and end users.

- Contribute to discussions and/or requirements with vendors/communities to ensure adopted technologies and standards are updated and following best practices.

- Contribute to technical coordination/planning of the underlying infrastructure (Kubernetes/Docker/Cloud environment) and the already developed code and integration operation and maintenance.

- Create and review technical and functional documentation.

- Be available/willing to coach junior colleagues and collaborate with/support Squad members.

- Familiarity with basic AI tools is considered an advantage.