Network DevOps Engineer

Overview of Position:
We are seeking a Network DevOps Engineer to work at Scott AFB, Illinois. A United States Citizenship and an active Secret DoD Security Clearance are required to be considered for this position.

Job Responsibilities:

• Determines opportunities to make process improvements and remove toil through automation.
• Acts as a change advocate, encourages culture change, and modernizes legacy workflows.
• Creates and maintains a suite of network and system automation tools.
• Able to work as a sole contributor, working autonomously on projects.

Typical duties include:

• Automates the provisioning and upgrades of network routers and switches.
• Maintains and improves a network CI/CD pipeline through GitLab CI and EVE-NG.
• Builds ad hoc Python scripts to interact with various network APIs.
• Automates lab environments, maintaining test/dev/production environments.
• Assists network and systems engineers with their daily workflow.

Experience/Skills:

• 5+ years of Python development experience.
• Ability to create basic Flask and Django REST APIs.
• Expertise with network automation libraries such as Netmiko, Scrapli, and pyATS.
• Familiarity with templating engines such as Jinja2.
• Interaction with databases through SQLAlchemy.
• Can call REST APIs through the requests and httpx libraries.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, GitLab CI experience preferred.
• Experience creating and running Docker/Podman containers.
• Knowledge of network emulation platforms such as Cisco CML, EVE-NG, and GNS3.
• Experience in areas such as network design and implementation, LAN/WAN interfacing, security, Internet protocols and TCP/IP, and server and network infrastructure.

Additional Preferred Skills:

• Previous experience automating infrastructure.
• Public repository of network automation projects.
• Understanding of domain-driven design practices.
• Experience with network-specific APIs (NETCONF, RESTCONF, gNMI).
• Ansible expertise.
• Knowledge of document processing languages such as Markdown and LaTeX.
• Basic knowledge of Terraform.
• Experience with distributed computing.
• Knowledge of frontend languages/frameworks.

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in a STEM field or equivalent work experience.

Certification:

• A professional certification, such as Cisco DevNet Professional, is highly desired.

Clearance:

• Active Secret clearance is required.
• Must be a U.S. Citizen and pass a background check.
• Maintain applicable security clearance(s) at the level required by the client and/or applicable certification(s) as requested.