Sr. Network Automation Engineer
Dean Foods

General Purpose:

Are you looking to be part of a world class IT group? Do you enjoy working as a key problem-solver on some of the most challenging technical and business issues? In this role you will have an opportunity to apply a software development mindset to lead the efforts of network configuration deployment, reliability, scalability, availability and performance alongside the engineering and infrastructure teams. Incorporate aspects of software engineering and apply them to infrastructure and operations problems to create scalable and highly reliable network systems. Work closely with our software development and engineering teams to build mature, production-ready services and applications. As part of the site reliability engineering team, help define our standards for monitoring, alerting, scalability, and production-readiness. Monitor and report on the uptime of our systems and services, the performance of our applications, and the capacity of our platform.

Note: This role offers a remote working arrangement, based on candidate eligibility.

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Apply Infrastructure as code philosophy to all aspects of networking
• Lead efforts to standardize discovery, configuration, and compliance of all network devices
• Work with other teams to design and implement automated workflows
• Champion maintaining and developing source of truth systems for devices and dependent services
• Act as mentor and advocate of automation best practices to other teams/team members. The requirements herein are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employee, but is not a complete list of responsibilities, duties, and skills required. Other duties may be assigned as required

Minimum Requirements:

Education and Experience

• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• 8+ years of experience with networks and/or IT systems
• Proficiency with one or more general purpose programming languages
• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code concepts
• Preferred Technologies Cloud providers - Azure, AWS, CGP
• Operating systems - Linux, Windows
• General programming languages - Python, Go
• Scripting languages - Bash, PowerShell
• CI/CD - Azure DevOps, Git
• Automation tools - Ansible, Terraform, Batfish
• Development - Visual Studio, Git, Markdown
• Monitoring and incident response - PagerDuty, ServiceNow, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana
• Infrastructure tools - Kubernetes, Docker, VMware, Infoblox, Active Directory
• Network - Cisco, Hyperflex

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Proficiency in monitoring, alerting, analyzing and troubleshooting
• Good understanding of defining and executing high availability, disaster recovery, sustained resiliency, and chaos engineering tests
• Able to demonstrate a passion for finding and improving efficiencies with infrastructure, development and deployment automation
• Able to enhance and maintain complex software components and distributed systems
• Able to define and drive adoption of a best-in-class monitoring framework to accomplish end-to-end application or service monitoring
• Able to develop and maintain operational dashboards to establish key performance indicators and trends
• Able to lead and participate in non-functional testing (performance and resilience) and identify bottlenecks, opportunities for optimization, and capacity demands
• Knowledge of control application log collection and analysis; able to automate processes and systems configuration/deployment
• Able to partner with security engineers and develop plans and automation to aggressively and safely respond to new risks and vulnerabilities
• Able to design and architect operational solutions for managing applications and infrastructure with the specific goal of increasing the automation, repeatability, and consistency of operational tasks
• Able to partner and train infrastructure and operations teams; this includes the creation and/or enhancement of SOPs, knowledge articles, etc.
• Able to analyze and participate in periodic on-call duties to prevent, solve and automate the response to problems on mission critical services
• Must be able to read, write and speak English
• Able to work effectively in a remote working capacity

An Equal Opportunity Employer

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