Senior Network Automation Engineer

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🌵 Arizona, California, +29 more states – Remote

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💵 $170k - $190k / year

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Flexential

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2000

🤝 B2B

🏢 Enterprise

📡 Telecommunications

B2B • Enterprise • Telecommunications

Flexential is a US-based provider of data center infrastructure and hybrid IT services. The FlexAnywhere® platform combines colocation, cloud (public/private/hybrid), connectivity/interconnection, data protection, managed and professional services to support enterprise workloads — including high-density GPU and AI/ML deployments. Flexential operates 40+ data centers across 18 US markets (3M+ sq. ft. footprint) and a 100+ Gbps network backbone, and positions itself as a B2B partner for enterprises needing resilient, scalable, and interconnected infrastructure.

📋 Description

• Design, build, test, deploy, and operate major components of Flexential’s in-house API-driven network automation platform. • Develop backend services in Python (Flask), RESTful APIs, data persistence, and supporting user interfaces. • Build and maintain frontend components using JavaScript, Angular or React, and Bootstrap. • Build northbound APIs for service catalog, feasibility, ordering, provisioning status, and lifecycle management. • Implement authorization, rate limiting, input validation, idempotency, retry, compensation, and observability for customer orders. • Develop network-as-code and orchestration workflows for provisioning, validating, modifying, and decommissioning network services. • Automate MPLS L3VPN, EVPN, BGP peering, routing policy, DCI turn-up, cloud on-ramps, firewall policies, and 400G backbone modernization. • Maintain vendor abstraction and device drivers for Arista, Cisco, and Fortinet platforms, including Arista CloudVision Portal integration. • Implement state reconciliation, drift detection, dry-run, rollback, RBAC, secrets management, and credential lifecycle handling. • Integrate with ServiceNow and instrument platform services for metrics, logs, traces, and operational observability. • Participate in on-call rotation and incident response for automation-driven change events. • Contribute to documentation, engineering standards, design reviews, and operational runbooks. • Mentor engineers and lead technical design reviews for assigned platform areas.

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of relevant technical experience building and operating production software and network automation systems. • 6+ years of production Python service development using Flask or equivalent, REST API design and consumption, data modeling, and automated testing. • 6+ years of expertise in MPLS L3VPN, BGP including MP-BGP/VPNv4, EVPN-VXLAN, OSPF/IS-IS, DCI, IP transit, and multi-vendor firewall policy. • 5+ years of network-as-code, intent-driven provisioning, multi-vendor configuration management, and validation. • 3+ years building and operating customer-facing service APIs, including contract versioning, tenant-scoped authorization, and rate limiting. • 3+ years of GitOps/CI/CD, pipeline authoring, automated test gates, and configuration-as-code delivery with tested rollback. • 3+ years of network security engineering, firewall and policy automation, RBAC, and secrets management. • 3+ years using document, graph, and timeseries databases for network state and automation metadata. • 3+ years of Linux systems administration, network management systems, and operational tooling integration. • 2+ years of JavaScript with Angular or React and Bootstrap. • Demonstrated experience mentoring engineers and leading technical design for a platform area. • Other training and experience may be substituted for the job requirements at the discretion of the manager. • Preferred: ServiceNow integration; service-provider, carrier, or multi-site enterprise automation; Kubernetes, Helm, and container deployment; OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, or Grafana; AI-assisted operations.

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, Telehealth, Dental and Vision • 401(k) • Health Savings Accounts (HSA) and Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) • Life and AD&D • Short Term and Long-Term disability • Flex Paid Time Off (PTO) • Leave of Absence • Employee Assistance Program • Wellness Program • Rewards and Recognition Program • Discretionary annual bonus, based on personal and company performance