Network DevOps Engineer- Python, REST APIs, Ansible, Terraform

Role & responsibilities

Key Accountabilities Lead the architecture, engineering, deployment, lifecycle management, and continuous improvement of the global Versa SD-WAN platform, including orchestration, analytics, controllers, and branch appliances. Engineer resilient WAN solutions using strong routing and security fundamentals, including BGP, OSPF, IPsec, segmentation, quality of service, application-aware path selection, high availability, and cloud and internet connectivity. Develop reusable automation and infrastructure as code using Python, REST APIs, Ansible, Terraform, GitHub Actions, and related tools to standardize provisioning, configuration, validation, upgrades, and operational workflows. Establish and enforce engineering guardrails through version control, peer review, automated testing, configuration validation, secure secrets handling, deployment approvals, and reliable rollback procedures. Improve platform observability and reliability using Versa analytics, Datadog, telemetry, logging, dashboards, alerting, capacity analysis, and service-level measures to identify risk before it affects the business. Lead troubleshooting and root cause analysis for complex WAN, application performance, routing, carrier, and automation issues, partnering with operations teams, service providers, and vendors through incident, problem, and change management processes. Develop and maintain architecture standards, high-level and low-level designs, reusable code modules, support documentation, operational runbooks, and transition plans for production support teams. Provide technical leadership across engineering teams, remove delivery roadblocks, mentor engineers, and promote modern Network DevOps and software engineering practices across Cargill. Other duties as assigned