[Hiring] Network Automation Architect @CBTS

Role Description

We are seeking a Senior Network Automation Architect — a software engineer first, with deep domain expertise in network infrastructure. This is not a traditional network engineering role with scripting. This position owns the design, development, and delivery of production‑grade automation software that operates across a large‑scale, multi‑vendor network environment for a Managed Service Provider (MSP).

You will define the developer experience for the network organization:

• Setting coding standards
• Designing extensible software architectures
• Building reusable Python libraries and internal platforms
• Implementing CI/CD pipelines
• Mentoring engineers in modern software development practices

You think in design patterns, clean abstractions, testability, and long‑term maintainability — and you apply that mindset to infrastructure automation.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software development experience with Python as the primary language
• Advanced Python expertise: Type hints, Dataclasses / Pydantic, Async / await, Context managers, decorators, generators
• Experience building Python libraries, packages, and CLI tools (Click, Typer, argparse)
• Strong testing background: pytest, mocking, fixtures, TDD
• Advanced Git skills (rebase, cherry‑pick, bisect, hooks)
• Hands‑on experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Solid grounding in SOLID principles, design patterns, and clean architecture
• Experience writing technical documentation and developer guidelines

Requirements

• Strong understanding of Routing (BGP, OSPF), Switching, VPNs and firewalls, SD‑WAN, Network security fundamentals
• Experience automating at least two or more of: NetBox, Arista VeloCloud, Cisco Meraki, Juniper Mist, Palo Alto Prisma SD‑WAN, Fortinet SD‑WAN
• Familiarity with Netmiko, NAPALM, Nornir, pyATS
• Experience with JSON, YAML, XML, and Jinja2 templating

Preferred Qualifications

• Terraform (including module or provider development)
• AWS networking and architecture
• Docker, Kubernetes, Linux
• Observability stacks (Grafana, Prometheus, ELK)
• Event-driven automation (Kafka, RabbitMQ, webhooks)
• Database integration (PostgreSQL, Redis, SQLite)
• Internal developer platforms, self‑service portals, or ChatOps
• Open-source contributions or public automation portfolio
• Relevant certifications (Cisco DevNet, CCNP/CCIE, AWS, Terraform)

Benefits

• Architect the automation backbone of a modern MSP
• Own standards, tooling, and culture — not just scripts
• Solve large‑scale, real‑world infrastructure problems
• High autonomy, high impact, long‑term technical ownership