Senior Network Engineer

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).