Architect Network Automation

Responsibilities

• Architect and develop production‑quality Python applications, libraries, and CLI tools for network automation, orchestration, and observability.
• Design clean, extensible architectures using patterns such as factory, strategy, adapter, and plugin‑based systems to abstract vendor differences.
• Build and maintain API integrations (REST, GraphQL, gRPC, JSON‑RPC) with platforms including:
• Develop internal Python packages with:
• Facilitate workshops, knowledge‑sharing sessions, and pair programming.
• Author and maintain coding standards, architectural decision records (ADRs), and development guidelines.
• Establish and enforce code quality tooling: PEP8, Ruff, Pylint, Black, MyPy, Pre‑commit hooks.
• Design and implement CI/CD pipelines (Git Hub Actions, Git Lab CI, Jenkins) for:
• Linting, testing, security scanning, build and release automation.
• Define Git workflows: branching strategies, pull request standards, code review expectations, release management.
• Create project templates, scaffolding, and cookiecutters to standardize automation development.
• Identify manual workflows and operational pain points, then design automation solutions to eliminate them.
• Prototype new tools, frameworks, and approaches from idea through production adoption.
• Improve observability by integrating automation platforms with logging, monitoring, and alerting systems.
• Contribute to technology roadmap and vendor evaluation from a software architecture and productivity perspective.

• Software Engineering (Primary) – 7+ years of professional software development experience with Python as the primary language.
• Advanced Python expertise: type hints, data classes / Pydantic, async/await, context managers, decorators, generators.
• Experience building Python libraries, packages, and CLI tools (Click, Typer, argparse).
• Strong testing background: pytest, mocking, fixtures, TDD.
• Advanced Git skills (rebase, cherry‑pick, bisect, hooks).
• Hands‑on experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Solid grounding in SOLID principles, design patterns, and clean architecture.
• Experience writing technical documentation and developer guidelines.
• Strong understanding of routing (BGP, OSPF), switching, VPNs and firewalls, SD‑WAN, network security fundamentals.
• Experience automating at least two or more of:
  Net Box, Arista Velo Cloud, Cisco Meraki, Juniper Mist, Palo Alto Prism, SD‑WAN, Fortinet SD‑WAN.
• Familiarity with Netmiko, NAPALM, Nornir, pyATS.
• Experience with JSON, YAML, XML, and Jinja2 templating.
• Terraform (including module or provider development), AWS networking and architecture, Docker, Kubernetes, Linux.
• Observability stacks:
  Grafana, Prometheus, ELK.
• Event‑driven automation:
  Kafka, RabbitMQ, webhooks.
• Database integration:
  PostgreSQL, Redis, SQLite.
• Internal developer platforms, self‑service portals, or Chat Ops.
• Open‑source contributions or public automation portfolio.
• Relevant certifications (Cisco Dev Net, CCNP/CCIE, AWS, Terraform).