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The role will focus on the engineering, administration, integration, and automation of network management and observability platforms, including ThousandEyes, SolarWinds, Infoblox DDI, NetBrain, and ServiceNow (SNOW). The engineer will work across network engineering and platform capabilities to improve network observability, telemetry, automation, data quality, and operational insight. A key part of the engagement will be developing integrations between network platforms using Python, scripting and APIs, and applying modern NetDevOps and software delivery practices to network engineering. The role will also support the evolution of data-driven network operations and AIOps by using network telemetry and operational data to improve visibility, proactively identify issues, correlate events, and enable automated remediation.\nKey Responsibilities\nEngineer, operate, maintain, integrate, and enhance network tooling platforms including ThousandEyes, SolarWinds, Infoblox DDI, NetBrain, and ServiceNow.\nDevelop integrations between network platforms, devices, and supporting platforms, management tooling, and network services using REST APIs, Python, and scripting.\nDevelop and enhance network observability capabilities using monitoring, telemetry, performance and operational data.\nDesign and implement network configuration automation and repeatable engineering workflows.\nDevelop reusable scripts, tooling and automation to reduce manual engineering activity and improve consistency.\nApply NetDevOps and modern software delivery practices, including source control, versioning, testing and CI/CD principles, to network engineering.\nExtract, transform and analyze data from network platforms and APIs to provide actionable engineering and operational insights.\nIdentify opportunities to apply AI and AIOps techniques to network operations, including event correlation, anomaly identification, automation, and the onboarding and integration of AI Agents, Agent Skills, and Agent Workflows to deliver AIOps\nIntegrate network tooling with operational workflows, including ServiceNow, to improve incident, event, and configuration processes.\nTroubleshoot complex issues spanning network infrastructure, tooling, APIs, integrations, automation and data.\nWork with network engineering, architecture, operations and platform teams to translate requirements into scalable engineering solutions.\nProduce and maintain technical documentation, integration designs, automation standards and operational guidance.\nContribute to engineering standards and reusable automation patterns across the Network Engineering function\nSkill Requirements\nMust have: Strong Network Engineering background, with a good understanding of enterprise LAN/WAN, routing, IP networking, DNS, DHCP and network management concepts.\nMust have: Strong hands-on Python and scripting experience, with evidence of developing network automation, tooling or integration solutions rather than simply executing existing scripts.\nMust have: Strong API and systems integration experience, particularly REST APIs and integration between network management or enterprise platforms.\nStrong experience with network monitoring, management and observability within complex enterprise environments.\nHands-on experience with one or more of the following platforms, with the ability to work across and integrate a broader network tooling ecosystem:\nThousandEyes\nSolarWinds\nInfoblox DDI\nNetBrain\nServiceNow\nCisco Meraki National Grid | 2\nCisco Catalyst Center\nCisco ISE\nExperience developing network configuration automation and repeatable automated engineering workflows.\nUnderstanding of NetDevOps principles, including Git/source control, CI/CD, testing, and software engineering practices applied to network infrastructure.\nExperience working with network telemetry, operational data, APIs, and analytics to derive meaningful engineering and operational insights.\nUnderstanding of data engineering concepts, including the collection, transformation, normalization, and analysis of data from multiple systems.\nUnderstanding of AI/AIOps concepts and how they can be applied to network monitoring, observability, event management and operational automation.\nAbility to troubleshoot across network, software, API, data, and tooling layers, rather than focusing solely on individual platforms.\nExperience working within large-scale, complex enterprise network environments.\nStrong communication skills and the ability to work effectively with network engineers, software/platform engineers, architects and operational teams.\nOther Requirements\nDesirable Skills & Experience\nAdvanced experience administering and integrating ThousandEyes, SolarWinds, Infoblox DDI and/or NetBrain.\nExperience developing integrations with ServiceNow, particularly across network events, incident or configuration workflows.\nExperience with infrastructure/network-as-code and automation frameworks.\nExperience developing CI/CD pipelines for network configuration, automation or tooling.\nExperience working with structured network data, telemetry, data engineering, analytics or visualization.\nPractical experience applying AI/ML or AIOps capabilities within network operations or observability.\nExperience with cloud networking, APIs and modern cloud-native tooling.\nExperience with Git-based collaborative development and code review. 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