Network Automation Engineer

Role: Developer. Skills: Network Engineer. Experience: 4 - 12 Years. Qualification: Bachelor Of Engineering

Job

Requirements*

1. Automation & Orchestration

Engineering

·Develop and maintain network

automation platforms using industry-standard orchestrators (e.g., Ansible,

Terraform, Python,NSO, SaltStack, StackStorm).

·Build scalable workflow engines

to automate provisioning, configuration, compliance, and operational tasks.

·Implement reusable automation

modules, libraries, and pipelines with strong testing and validation.

2. Data Modelling

·Create and maintain data models

(YANG, JSON, YAML, XML)

for configurations, inventory, and service definitions.

·Map network business

requirements to logical service models and templates.

• Establish

  relationships between topology, inventory, and configuration datasets

3. Workflow Execution & Orchestration

·Design and implement multi-stage

workflows for provisioning, change management, upgrades, and rollback

routines.

·Integrate orchestrators with

external systems (ITSM, CI/CD, CMDB, monitoring, IPAM).

·Implement task scheduling,

dependency handling, and distributed execution capabilities.

4. Standards, Governance, and Guardrails

• Define automation

  development standards, coding guidelines, and peer-review processes.

• Implement guardrails

  for safe automation execution (pre-checks, simulation modes, drift

  detection).

• Ensure secure

  handling of credentials, API keys, secrets, and sensitive network data.

5. Compliance & Validation

• Automate policy

  enforcement and configuration compliance using templates and rules

  (e.g., security baselines, golden configs).

• Develop

  continuous-validation pipelines for posture checks, drift remediation,

  and audit reporting.

6. Inventory, Topology, and Versioning

• Build and maintain

  dynamic inventory systems for devices, services, and configurations.

• Implement

  configuration version control, differential analysis, and automated

  rollback mechanisms.

·Maintain topology databases to

support dependency mapping and impact assessments

7. Zero-Touch Provisioning (ZTP)

• Develop automated

  onboarding w