Network Devops Engineer

Job Description

Network DevOps Engineer
Scott Air Force Base - Scott AFB, IL
Full Time

Overview of position:
Seeking a Network DevOps Engineer to work at Scott AFB, Illinois. A United States Citizenship and an active Secret DoD Security Clearance is required to be considered for this position.

Responsibilities:

• Determines opportunities to make process improvements and remove toil through automation

• Acts as a change advocate, encourages culture change and modernizes legacy workflows

• Creates and maintains a suite of network and system's automation tools

• Able to work as a sole contributor, working autonomously on projects.

• Typical duties include:
o Automates the provisioning and upgrades of network routers and switches
o Maintains and improves a network CI/CD pipeline through Gitlab CI and EVE-NG
o Builds ad hoc Python scripts to interact with various network APIs
o Automates lab environments, maintaining test/dev/production environments
o Assists network and systems engineers with their daily workflow

Experience/Skills:

• 5+ years of Python development experience

• Ability to create basic Flask and Django REST APIs

• Expertise with network automation libraries such as Netmiko, Scrapli, and pyATS

• Familiarity with templating engines such as Jinja2

• Interaction with databases through SQLAlchemy

• Can call REST APIs through the requests and httpx libraries

• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, Gitlab CI experience preferred

• Experience creating and running Docker/Podman containers

• Knowledge of network emulation platforms such as Cisco CML, EVE-NG, and GNS3

• Experience in areas such as network design and implementation, LAN/WAN interfacing, security,

Internet protocols and TCP/IP, and server and network infrastructure
Additional Preferred Skills:

• Previous experience automating infrastructure

• Public repository of network automation projects

• Understanding of domain driven design practices

• Experience with network specific APIs (NETCONF, RESTCONF, gNMI)

• Ansible expertise

• Knowledge of document processing languages such as Markdown and LaTeX

• Basic knowledge of terraform

• Experience with distributed computing

• Knowledge of frontend languages/frameworks

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in a STEM field or equivalent work experience
Certification:

• A professional certification, such as Cisco Devnet Professional is highly desired

Clearance:

• Active Secret clearance is required.

• Must be a US Citizen and pass a background check.

• Maintain applicable security clearance(s) at the level required by the client and/or applicable
certification(s) as requested