Network Automation, Reliability Engineer

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🕒 August 6

🏄 California, Illinois, +1 more states – Remote

🏄 California – Remote 🌽 Illinois – Remote 🗽 New York – Remote

💵 $75 - $85 / hour

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟢 Junior

🟡 Mid-level

⛑ DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

🚫👨‍🎓 No degree required

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Ontrac Solutions is an AI-first technology services firm that helps organizations design, implement, and scale AI-driven systems, cloud architectures, and enterprise platform integrations. They provide AI strategy and generative AI implementation (including RAG and intelligent search), cloud migration and optimization (multi-cloud architecture, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitOps, and FinOps), data and integration engineering, CRM/CMS/e-commerce platform development, and embedded technical talent / staff augmentation to move AI from experimentation into production. With innovation hubs in Chicago and Karachi, Ontrac focuses on delivering production-ready AI and cloud solutions that drive measurable business outcomes.

📋 Description

• Design, write, and maintain Python tooling that provisions, validates, and audits network devices across the global fleet • Build model-driven provisioning libraries using Jinja2 templating with NETCONF/YANG or REST APIs to codify golden configurations and eliminate configuration drift • Develop automated remediation for recurring failure classes triggered by syslog and telemetry • Identify recurring manual runbook steps and replace them with tested, reviewed code • Operate and scale data center fabrics, backbone links, and out-of-band management networks across data centers and POP sites • Design and tune BGP policy to control path selection and eliminate single-carrier points of failure • Support capacity expansion and site turn-ups, including high-level design, port channelization, optics and cabling standards, and hardware qualification • Execute zero-downtime production change management, including hitless migrations and staged rollbacks • Operationalize multi-vendor streaming telemetry and tune subscription jobs • Build and maintain observability for hop-by-hop path tracing, multi-layer fault isolation, and root cause analysis • Contribute to a real-time network source of truth aggregating BGP, link-state, and drain-state data • Participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation, lead incident response, write RCAs, and drive follow-up automation • Maintain and optimize firewall and ACL policy across multi-vendor platforms • Support SIRT/PSIRT CVE remediation through automated regression testing and config-as-code pipelines • Author and maintain technical documentation, including designs, runbooks, and API contracts

🎯 Requirements

• Demonstrated, sustained Python development in a production network or infrastructure environment • Production tooling experience for config generation and validation, API integrations, telemetry collectors, automated remediation, or test harnesses • Comfort with modules, packaging, testing, code review, and version control • Production BGP experience, including policy, path selection, and multihoming • Experience with IS-IS or OSPF, ECMP, and VXLAN/EVPN or MPLS overlays • Hands-on operations across at least two of Arista EOS, Juniper Junos (QFX/SRX/PTX/MX), or Cisco IOS-XR/NX-OS • Experience with Ansible and Jinja2 • Experience with NETCONF/YANG, RESTCONF, or vendor REST APIs • Experience with gNMI/gRPC streaming telemetry, OpenConfig models, SNMP, flow telemetry, and dashboarding/alerting • Linux experience, including networking stack, packet capture, systemd services, and shell scripting • Git-based workflows with peer review and CI pipelines such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, or GitHub Actions • Experience holding a 24x7 production on-call rotation, including incident command and root cause analysis • Roughly 2–5 years of experience in network production, network reliability, or network automation • Must be located in the United States and authorized to work in the US • Preferred: out-of-band network experience, data center or POP build-out, MACsec/IPsec, 802.1X/NAC, optical or transport technologies, NetBox or in-house source of truth, LLM or agentic on-call tooling, and a master's degree

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