Network DevOps Engineer

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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

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