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The person is expected to have deep experience and knowledge in their area of expertise with around 8 years of experience in the field.\nOnsite attendance is required during the first week. Thereafter, candidates should be willing to attend onsite quarterly (one day per quarter or consolidated multi-day visits).\nResponsibilities\nSupports projects as a mid-to-senior team member with direction from a project lead and complies with the BlueAllyquality of delivering services\nMay be part of a bigger delivery team and lead specific areas of a project related to the person’s expertise\nProvide engineering support and technical expertise across multiple projects aligned with client needs.\nContribute to continuous improvement initiatives and help ensure adherence to quality and compliance standards.\nAbility to create technical written documentation independently and to deliver briefings to client stakeholders in a roundtable setting in areas relating to the person’s expertise\nEscalation of project impacting issues to the Delivery Directors or other appropriate leadership\nDevelop and maintain Python applications that connect to network devices and collect configuration and operational data, make changes, or a combination of both.\nHost web applications on Linux servers and be responsible for maintaining service uptime\nContribute to internal documentation and knowledge sharing around automation tooling and best practices.\nPosition Requirements\nRelevant engineering experience, ideally in a client-facing or project-driven environment.\nExpertise in a technical area with direction from senior technical leadership on specific tasks\nAble to support parts of sales support activities if/as necessary\nProvides support in Project Management requirements\nOften independent but with consistent checkpoints. Tasked by another to undertake specific technical activities.\nDeep experience in 1 technical area, developing breadth across 1+ additional areas\nAware of specific client business requirements and how technical solutions being implemented support those requirements.\nSome experience and understanding specific to 1+ industries where the employee has worked\nRecognizes and can explain the business benefits their technical solution provides, short of quantifying those benefits.\nAble to create technical written documents (e.g., RFP response content, detail design and deployment deliverables) against specific topics/assignments independently and with few grammatical mistakes.\nAble to support, with guidance, the creation and delivery of select presentation content on specific technologies with which they have experience. Can deliver briefings to technical-to-mid level client stakeholders in a roundtable setting.\nUnderstands the need for project and financial information to be compared and aligned to forecast(s). \nRecognizes and acts independently on the different billing objectives by project type (T&M, FFP, Managed Services)\nConsistently maintains one’s own forecast on respective efforts. Mentors more junior members in doing the same.\nExperience with Network Automation scripting and tooling. Examples: Ansible, Terraform, NetBox, and others.\nComfort working with REST APIs, data serialization formats (JSON, YAML), SQL Databases, and version control (Git).\nProficiency in Python with practical experience building tools.\nComfort working on the Linux command line.\nExperience with Flask framework\nEducation\nOne CCNP level certification or dual CCNA level certifications desired. Alternates could include but are not limited to VCAP, JNCIS, CCSE, or PCNSE (as examples).\nTwo+ certifications at the next level below these with hands-on experience behind each desired.\nBachelor’s degree or equivalent\nNice to Have\nExperience with PyATS for writing network testcases\nExperience with using Gluware for network configuration auditing\nExperience developing with Netmiko in order to automate network devices.\nBlueAlly is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive. We comply fully with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and applicable state and local laws, and we welcome qualified applicants of all abilities. We believe that diverse teams - including people with disabilities - make us stronger, and we are happy to provide reasonable accommodations throughout the hiring process and during employment. 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