Network Automation Engineer

Focus: Automation-first, with a solid traditional networking foundation

About the Role

IT’s Network Engineering organization runs network operations at scale and is automating them end-to-end, building Network-as-Code and NetDevOps practices.

This role owns the day-to-day operational health of the network, including observability, reliability, and vulnerability remediation, while also building the automation and tooling that make ongoing operations safe and faster.

Responsibilities

Own network observability — monitoring, alerting, and analytics across:

Cisco routers, switches, firewalls, and wireless

ISE

AVI Load Balancers

Palo Alto NGFWs

SD-WAN (Cloudgenix)

Infoblox DNS/DHCP/IPAM

Drive day-to-day network reliability, including:

Incident response

Troubleshooting

Proactive health checks on live production network infrastructure

Own vulnerability patching and remediation for network devices and infrastructure, tracking issues through closure.

Build and maintain the automation framework that becomes the primary touchpoint for routine network operations and changes.

Translate Gold Standard Network Configurations into data models and code using Network-as-Code practices and source control.

Maintain and extend in-house automation tooling, including:

Ansible / AWX

CI/CD pipelines

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Buildkite

Configure, test, and troubleshoot network devices directly. This is a hands-on operational networking role, not just a scripting position.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent.

7+ years of hands-on network operations/engineering experience.

CCNA or equivalent networking knowledge.

Strong hands-on experience with Cisco networking, including:

IOS

IOS-XE

NX-OS

IP addressing

Subnetting

OSPF / BGP

ACLs

VLANs

Experience with network monitoring/observability tools and vulnerability patching/remediation.

Pay: ₹600,000.00 - ₹1,100,000.00 per year

Work Location: In person