Senior Network Automation Engineer

Requirements

• Advanced Python development for production-grade tools and services
• Go (preferred) for performant tooling
• 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)

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

Nice to Haves

• Experience with data centre fabrics, QoS, and high-performance networking

Perks and Benefits

• QRT is an equal opportunity employer promoting diversity
• Initiatives and programs to achieve a healthy work-life balance