Senior Network Engineer
Whitefield Careers
5 - 10 years
Kochi
Posted: 02/04/2026
Job Description
Required Skills
- 1012+ years of experience in Networking / Infrastructure Engineering with a strong focus on automation.
- Strong Python scripting expertise for network automation (API integrations, structured data, parsing, error handling, packaging).
- Proven hands-on experience with Terraform and Ansible in production environments.
- Practical experience with NETCONF and YANG for model-driven network automation.
- Strong expertise in Jinja templating for configuration generation and standardization.
- Hands-on experience designing and delivering microservice-based applications in the network or infrastructure domain.
- Solid networking fundamentals (routing, switching, VLANs, VPNs, DNS/DHCP, load balancers, firewalls).
- Strong Git practices and understanding of CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and network changes.
- Experience owning delivery or leading automation initiatives end-to-end.
Preferred Skills
- Experience in banking or financial services projects, including change control, approvals, audit trails, and segregation of duties.
- Exposure to multiple network vendor ecosystems (Cisco, Juniper, Arista, Palo Alto, Fortinet, F5, etc.).
- Familiarity with RESTCONF, gNMI, streaming telemetry, and modern network observability patterns.
- Experience deploying automation services using Docker and Kubernetes.
- Knowledge of event-driven automation patterns using queues or streams (Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS, etc.).
- Familiarity with Source of Truth concepts and tools (IPAM, CMDB, inventory systems, configuration baselines).
- Experience with secrets management and secure automation patterns (Vault, CyberArk, or similar).
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