Network Automation Specialist NV2
Softtestpays
- Canberra, ACT
- Permanent
- Full-time
- 5+ years experience designing, implementing and supporting network automation and orchestration solutions in large scale, geographically dispersed and security-hardened on-premise environments which operate in low-bandwidth and disconnected states;
- 5+ years experience designing, implementing and developing automation and orchestration solutions using technologies such as Ansible, Jenkins, Terraform, JFrog Artifactory and Gitlab pipelines;
- 5+ years experience in scripting and development technologies such as Bash, Python, Powershell, RestFUL API
- 5+ years experience in designing, developing and supporting X-as-code (infrastructure, architecture, configuration, security, environment, etc) to configure, evaluate and remediate network infrastructure against a desired state configuration;
- Experience in designing, implementing and supporting large scale ICT networks (i.e. switching and routing);
- Experience with Switching, Routing, Load Balancing, Firewall technologies.
- Ability to take requirements, standards and frameworks and apply in a practical application to future proposed solution designs and systems;
- Strong communication, interpersonal and negotiation skills with demonstrable experience of presentation and engagement with stakeholders, projects and business areas;
- Ability to rapidly build, automate and deliver proof of concept systems to support analysis, testing, accreditation and development activities within a DevSecOps framework;
- Ability to adapt quickly to changing requirements in a fast paced highly kinetic environment to meet changing deadlines and deliverables;
- Ability to work under broad direction with a high level of autonomy; and,
- Experience developing highly available/fault tolerant systems, networks and infrastructure in a connected, partially connected, degraded or often disconnected state.
- Experience in developing automated and orchestrated solutions for network technologies such as Arista, Fortinet, Riverbed, F5;
- Experience with SDN and Network Function Virtualisation (NFV);
- Experience and/or knowledge in Load Balancing, Next Generation Firewalls, Software Defined Network and SD-WAN
- Understanding of Virtualisation and Hyper-Converged Infrastructure, Active Directory and PKI certificate services;
- Previous experience in a Technical Architect and/or Senior Operational Support role;
- 5+ years of experience in configuring, building and supporting multi-vendor geographically dispersed solutions;