Software Engineer - Remote
Summary
Customer-facing Network Software Development Engineer on a 1-year contract, building network automation frameworks, customizations, and efficiency tools across data center, campus/WiFi, WAN, and service provider networks using Python and Ansible.
Overview
We are seeking a customer facing Network Software Development Engineer on a 1-year contract to assist customer engineering teams across multi-domains: data center, campus/wifi, wide area networks, and service providers.
You will be part of a team that works in 3 areas:
- Network automation: Developing innovative frameworks for customers by leveraging cutting-edge network automation techniques
- Software customizations: Designing and implementing solutions to help customers deploy and operate advanced networking infrastructure
- Efficiency enablement: Building software tools to help internal and external collaborators work more productively when deploying, migrating and operating networks
What You'll Do
This role demands strong and broad software engineering fundamentals, and ideally a good understanding of networking including capabilities like L2, L3, and fundamentals of commercial switching HW, proficiency in Python and Ansible.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's/Master's degree in Computer Science or related
- 3+ years of experience in software development
- Proficiency in Python
- Expertise in version control systems (e.g. GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket)
- Knowledge of testing frameworks (e.g. PyTest )
- Understanding of IP networking and/or distributed systems
- Experience with Unix or Linux
- Comfortable working in all phases of software development life cycle
- Applied understanding of software engineering principles.
- Strong problem solving, analytical and troubleshooting skills.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to work in a team environment
Desirable
- Experience with CI platforms (e.g. GitHub, GitLab, Jenkins)
- Familiarity with container technologies (e.g. Docker, Podman, Kubernetes) and service orchestration (e.g. Ansible, Terraform)
- Familiarity with Nautobot or Netbox
- Familiarity with Itential Automation Platform
- Experience with datacenter networking, management and orchestration
- Past experience with Arista EOS, Cisco IOS or JUN OS.
- Experience building third party software integrations and APIs
- Experience working in a customer-facing role
Join us as we innovate and enhance our engineering capabilities. If you are passionate about technology and eager to make an impact, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity.