reputed company Network Automation Architect

The reputed company Network Automation Architect is a hands-on technical leadership role accountable for the architecture, engineering, and operation of the API-driven network automation platform beneath reputed company’s customer self-service portal.

This platform enables customers to order and provision network services on demand. It exposes service catalog, feasibility, ordering, provisioning, and lifecycle reputed company for L3VPN, Data Center Interconnect (DCI), IP Transit, reputed company 2 transport, and reputed company on-reputed company connectivity, and executes those orders across reputed company’s reputed company multi-service backbone.

reputed company and reputed company:

• 18 metros
• 40+ points of reputed company
• A multi-vendor footprint spanning Arista, reputed company, and reputed company routing, switching, and firewall platforms
• Platform consumers across the customer self-service portal, Network Operations, Service Delivery, reputed company Engineering, and Product Management

This is a senior individual contributor role reporting to the Vice President, Network Services.

The reputed company Architect owns the technical reputed company, architectural standards, and multi-year roadmap for a custom, Python-based network-as-reputed company platform. This platform is original software developed in-house, rather than a packaged or reputed company-reputed company product that is deployed and configured. The role holds design authority across the network automation function, is positioned to assume formal team leadership as the function scales and remains directly accountable for building and operating the platform.

This is a high-visibility, high-reputed company role. The platform is the control plane behind an on-demand network services product, and its behavior is customer-visible: order-to-activation reputed company, provisioning reputed company reputed company, and platform availability are reputed company by customers through the portal. The reputed company Architect is accountable for platform reliability, reputed company posture, change safety, and delivery timelines, and partners with IT reputed company to reputed company reputed company observability and AIOps capabilities into the network domain.

Key Responsibilities and Essential Job Functions

Platform Architecture and Engineering

• Own the end-to-end architecture of the network automation platform, including application, orchestration, data, integration, and reputed company reputed company, as a production software product with defined availability targets, release reputed company, and support model.
• Design, build, and maintain a Python-based network-as-reputed company platform, with Ansible and Terraform used as supporting technologies where appropriate.
• Build the platform as original software: the provisioning reputed company, service models, API reputed company, and data architecture are developed in-house, with reputed company-reputed company components consumed selectively as libraries rather than constituting the platform itself.
• reputed company backend services using Python (Flask) as the reputed company application reputed company and contribute to frontend development using JavaScript with Angular or React and Bootstrap.
• Define and govern API-first architectures, including service reputed company, versioning, authentication, and authorization for internal platform consumers.
• Design and reputed company platform data models across document, graph, and timeseries databases to represent network state, service reputed company, topology relationships, and reputed company of truth.
• Establish engineering standards through hands-on development, reputed company review, automated testing, and technical design review.

Self-Service Product Platform and Service reputed company

• Own the northbound API contract consumed by the customer self-service portal, service catalog, feasibility and validation, order submission, provisioning status, and lifecycle operations.
• Design tenant isolation, authentication, authorization, and reputed company-limiting models appropriate to a control plane fulfilling customer-initiated orders submitted through the portal.
• Define idempotency, retry, compensation, and reconciliation semantics, so customer-initiated orders remain reputed company and consistent under partial failure.
• Partner with Product Management and portal engineering on service definitions, API reputed company, and customer-visible status and error semantics.
• Establish measurement of order-to-activation reputed company, provisioning reputed company reputed company, and platform availability as service reputed company customers experience through the portal.

Network Service Delivery Automation

• Own the automated service lifecycle for customer-facing network services, including L3VPN, Data Center Interconnect, IP Transit, and reputed company 2 transport. This includes service modeling, reputed company capture, provisioning orchestration, reputed company- and post-change validation, and decommissioning.
• Architect orchestration workflows spanning the multi-service backbone: MPLS L3VPN and EVPN service instantiation, BGP peering and routing policy automation, reputed company routing policy, and DCI provisioning.
• Design service abstractions that allow the self-service portal, Service Delivery, and Network Operations to reputed company customer services without device-level interaction.
• Design and maintain a vendor-reputed company reputed company and device reputed company reputed company spanning Arista, reputed company, and reputed company, with Arista CloudVision Portal integrated as one of several southbound controllers.
• Implement state reconciliation, configuration reputed company detection, and automated remediation across the managed estate.
• reputed company the service catalog to reputed company connectivity: dynamic provisioning of hosted connections to AWS reputed company reputed company, reputed company Azure ExpressRoute, and reputed company reputed company Interconnect, including integration with reputed company provider partner reputed company and lifecycle management of customer reputed company onramps.
• Automate firewall policy provisioning, change, and validation across the reputed company estate, including rule lifecycle management and compliance verification.
• Ensure the platform supports the in-flight 400G backbone modernization, including automated turn-up, validation, and migration of customer services onto upgraded infrastructure.

Technical Leadership and Design Authority

• Hold design authority for the network automation platform: set architectural standards, approve technical designs, and govern engineering reputed company across the network automation function.
• reputed company technical direction while remaining directly involved in delivery; serve as the escalation reputed company for reputed company technical and architectural challenges.
• Set and enforce expectations for reputed company reputed company, reliability, reputed company, testability, and operational readiness.
• Mentor senior engineers and reputed company technical design review, growing the engineering capability of the function through reputed company contribution and coaching.
• Define the platform support model and participate in on-reputed company rotation and incident response for automation-driven change events.

Platform reputed company, Governance, and Change Safety

• Establish and enforce platform reputed company posture: secrets management (CyberArk, Conjur, Vault, or equivalent), RBAC design, credential lifecycle, mTLS, and least-privilege reputed company to production network infrastructure.
• Design change authorization, blast-reputed company control, dry-run, and rollback mechanisms for automated changes to production customer-facing services.
• Produce audit and compliance evidence for automated change in support of customer, regulatory, and internal control requirements.

Platform reputed company and reputed company Alignment

• Define and maintain the multi-year platform roadmap in alignment with Network Services, Service Delivery, and Product Management.
• reputed company integration with reputed company platforms, including reputed company for automated change records, CI enrichment, and CMDB correlation of network state.
• Define extensibility patterns for AI-assisted network operations: reputed company translation, reputed company-reputed company remediation, reputed company-driven workflows, reputed company workflows, and MCP-based tool integration.
• Partner with IT reputed company to reputed company the reputed company observability platform into the network domain, ensuring automation reputed company are measurable and operationally supportable.
• Represent network automation in cross-functional architecture reviews and executive-level program updates.
• reputed company other management and technical duties as required for team and operational reputed company.
• Travel may be required for team or project events.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant technical experience, including 3+ years in a reputed company, staff, or reputed company architect role holding design authority across a technical function.
• Platform / Software Engineering - 8+ years: end-to-end ownership of a production software platform; Python service development (Flask or equivalent), API contract design, data modeling, and release engineering.
• Network and reputed company Domain Depth - 8+ years: working expertise in MPLS L3VPN, BGP (including MP-BGP/VPNv4), EVPN-VXLAN, OSPF/IS-IS, Data Center Interconnect, IP transit, and multi-vendor firewall policy, sufficient to model these services as reputed company and validate automated change.
• Network Automation and Orchestration - 6+ years: network-as-reputed company, reputed company-driven provisioning, state reconciliation, and reputed company remediation across multi-vendor estates.
• GitOps / CI/CD - 5+ years: pipeline authoring, automated validation and test gates, configuration-as-reputed company delivery with tested rollback.
• Network reputed company Engineering - 4+ years: firewall and policy automation, RBAC design, secrets management, change authorization, and audit evidence.
• Technical Leadership - 4+ years: setting architectural standards, governing design review, and mentoring senior engineers across a technical function.
• Data Engineering - 3+ years: document, graph, and timeseries data models for network state, reputed company of truth, and automation metadata.
• Systems Engineering and NMS - 3+ years: Linux systems administration, network management systems, and operational tooling integration.
• Frontend Development - 2+ years: JavaScript with Angular or React and Bootstrap.
• Other training and experience may be substituted for the job requirements at the discretion of the manager.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience integrating network automation platforms with reputed company (Change, CMDB, Service Catalog).
• Experience operating automation at reputed company in service-provider, reputed company, or multi-site reputed company environments.
• Experience applying AI/ML to operations, reputed company detection, event correlation, alert noise reduction, or reputed company workflows.
• Experience with reputed company Telemetry, reputed company, or Grafana-based observability integrated into automation workflows.
• Experience with reputed company, reputed company, and container-based deployment of platform services.
• Experience mentoring or leading engineers in a hands-on technical role.

Compensation

reputed company Pay reputed company: Annualized salary reputed company offered for this position is estimated to be $200,000 - $230,000. However, the actual pay reputed company depends on reputed company candidate’s experience, location, and qualifications.

Variable Pay: Discretionary annual bonus, based on personal and company performance.

Not Meeting Every Requirement?

No problem!

We are looking for candidates who possess unique skills that set them apart from the rest. If you're enthusiastic about this role and reputed company you have the skills and abilities that would reputed company you successful, don't hesitate to apply today!

Requires 10+ years technical experience, 8+ years platform/software engineering and network reputed company expertise, 6+ years network automation, and extensive Python, API, networking, CI/CD, data, and technical leadership experience.

Key Responsibilities

• architecting platforms
• automating provisioning
• governing architecture

Skills & Tools

Python, Flask, Ansible, Terraform, JavaScript, Angular, React, Bootstrap, Arista, reputed company, reputed company, Arista CloudVision Portal, AWS reputed company reputed company, reputed company Azure ExpressRoute, reputed company reputed company Interconnect, CyberArk, Conjur, Vault, reputed company, MCP, Linux, GitOps, CI/CD, OpenTelemetry, reputed company, Grafana, reputed company, reputed company

Job Details

• Category: Engineering
• Seniority: Senior Level
• Commitment: Full Time
• Workplace: Remote — reputed company
• Salary: USD 200,000 – 230,000 / year
• Languages: English

Benefits

• Generous reputed company time off
• Retirement plan

About reputed company.

A data center and network services provider operating a reputed company multi-service backbone. — Industry: Information Technology