Senior Network Engineer & DevOps Automation Lead

The Network Engineer III - Dev Ops primary focuses on utilizing and building code to enable automation, visibility, and reliability maturity for QTS’ infrastructure and applications. This role will utilize state of the art technology to deploy, automate, manage, and troubleshoot all of QTS’ Technology Infrastructure. This role will work cross departmentally on enterprise wide technology projects in support of QTS’ ongoing digital transformation goals and utilize an agile framework to provide world-class results.

This role requires a broad understanding of various technologies and the ability to think creatively and use advanced problem solving skills to create innovative solutions to any QTS technology problem – to include Data Center Infrastructure Management, Technology Operations, Service Delivery Platform, and Enterprise IT. This position requires skills, motivation and experience to serve as a member of a highly functional team to deliver superior, predictable and reliable services in a dynamic IT service provider environment.

RESPONSIBILITIES, other duties may be assigned.

Streamline automation, visibility, and reliability improvements for QTS technology. Able to work across multiple programming languages, third party tools and integrations, and software and hardware

Establish and meet SLOs on reliability for QTS products and infrastructure

Ensure that operational technologies are integrated within QTS monitoring tools to increase visibility of potential issues to proactively reduce risk and & maximize the availability of IT infrastructure & services while improving Mean Time to Restore during outages

Diagnose, troubleshoot and resolve external customer and QTS Network issues

Facilitates meetings to determine feature design requirements from stakeholders

Supports organizational change management by providing platform training

Supports platform roadmap planning

Manage vendors and evaluate new technologies

Plan and document MOPs and engineering standards. Manage lifecycle of assigned devices and provide associated budget inputs

Evangelize and implement an “automation first” mindset. Brief executives regularly on improvements

Design, build, and maintain network infrastructure using modern networking technologies and practices.

Develop within a CI/CD framework that reduces toil for repeatable tasks

Automate network configurations and deployments using infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools, such as Ansible, Terraform, or similar

Collaborate with network engineering teams to implement and optimize network solutions based on business requirements

Implement and maintain network security measures, including firewalls, access control lists, and intrusion detection systems.

Stay up to date with industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in network automation and software-defined networking (SDN).Provide training and mentorship to Level I and II Network Engineers

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent professional experience

Seven or more years of network engineering experience

Strong knowledge of networking concepts, protocols, and technologies, such as TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF, VLANs, VPNs, SDN, and cloud networking

CCNAUS Citizenship for this position is required by law due to federal customer contracts

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS Experience working in a Data Center environment

Python Ansible Power Shell Java Script /JSON/REST APIOr equivalent engineering professional certification for a relevant Dev Ops/SRE technology

CCNP or CCIEKNOWLEDGE,

SKILLS AND ABILITIES

Thinking, analytical, and problem solving skills

Ability to solve multi-faceted complex problems.

Excellent interpersonal and verbal communication skills - Ability to interface with all levels of the organization and customers with varied levels of technical knowledge.

Excellent written communication skills

Ability to work well within a team environment in a matrixed organization.

Flexibility; ability to thrive in a fast-paced, interrupt-driven environment

Expert ability to write infrastructure as code and manage updates to associated playbooks and code repositories via best practice Agile and release management

Expert understanding…