Senior Network Automation Engineer

Requirements

• Advanced Python development for production-grade tools and services.
• Strong Ansible experience (roles, collections, YAML/JSON data models).
• Git proficiency including branching, pull requests, and semantic versioning.
• Observability fundamentals (Prometheus, Grafana, logging and tracing).
• Source of truth/CMDB systems (NetBox, Nautobot etc.).
• Linux networking (iptables, DHCP, DNS) and strong Bash scripting.
• Workflow orchestration (Temporal or equivalent).
• Network validation and testing tools (pyATS, NAPALM etc.).
• Containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Secure secrets and configuration management (Vault, PKI best practices).

Nice to Haves

• Experience with data centre fabrics, QoS, and high-performance networking is a plus.

What You'll Be Doing

• Design and evolve the network automation framework (source of truth, templating, validation, change control).
• Build idempotent automation to provision and operate data centre fabrics at scale.
• Integrate with vendor APIs and SDKs (e.g. Arista EOS, NetQ etc.).
• Capture network intent as code, ensuring peer reviews and quality gates.
• Instrument the network with telemetry, alerting, and SLOs to drive automated remediation.
• Adhere to NetDevOps practices and share knowledge across the team.
• Collaborate with network and platform engineers to translate designs into automated workflows.
• Deliver frequent, incremental improvements through safe, tested changes.
• Monitor vendor and industry developments and propose practical adoption paths.

Perks and Benefits

• QRT is an equal opportunity employer.
• We welcome diversity as essential to our success.
• QRT empowers employees to work openly and respectfully to achieve collective success.
• Offering initiatives and programs to enable employees to achieve a healthy work-life balance.