Cross Functional Network Automation Engineer - Juniper - fully remote EU business hours

• Ensure quality adherence.
  
• Ensure best practices while meeting nonfunctional requirements.
  
• Validate architecture that is defined and communicated.
  
• Identify key engagement and solution risks and define mitigation strategies.
  
• Maintain an understanding of longterm company strategy and ensure that designs will enable projects to meet the changing industry/competitive demand.
  
• Implement and recommend viable architectural approaches that support long term maintainability extensibility and interoperability of enterprise applications.
  
• Review requirements and work with necessary teams ensuring there is agreement on what software is to be built and implemented.
  
• Synthesize design incorporate review comments and provide critical review of other designs.
  
• Build and test code to validate functionality against requirements.
  
• Triage incoming items to validate reported issues and ensure reproducibility.
  
• Develop and maintain strong positive relationships with customers vendors peers and other employees.
  
• Participate in project retrospectives and contribute to continuous improvement of the software development life cycle.
  
• Stay current on technologies.
  
• Show accountability and ownership for the work undertaken.
  
• Provide leadership and mentoring for other engineers.
  

Requirements

• Understanding of Itential Automation Platform including build of workflows Operations Manager Automation and JSON Transformations
  

• Experience deploying servers network devices and building scripts/apps using own or opensource libraries.
  

• Knowledge and experience working with JSON.
  

• Knowledge and experience working with RESTful APIs.
  

• Experience in JavaScript security and performance issues with browsers helpful
  

• Knowledge of linux environment and troubleshooting using the linux command line
  

• Knowledge of basic networking concepts
  

• Experience in Django development
  

• Expertise in Yang
  

Experience building Cloud Native or Hybrid applications using Azure or another public cloud.

• Experience in customerfacing leadership roles
  

• Strong communication skills
  

• Experience providing technical leadership on network implementation projects.
  

• Experience and Proficiency in TSQL and SQL Server with some basic DBA skills
  

• Knowledge and application of objectoriented design principles
  

• A good understanding of IT environments including networking server technologies databases security and performance.
  

• Agile methodology and technical lead experience would be advantageous
  

• Experience with Ansible playbook creation creating/using roles and Ansible inventory management.
  

• Experience managing and using Ansible Automation Platform (formerly Ansible Tower) Relational database knowledge
  

• Experience in BDD
  

• Experience in CI/CD based sw development
  

• Strong software development skills with an emphasis on Python
  

• Strong understanding of REST API methodology
  

• Strong understanding of software development lifecycle
  

• Knowledge or experience with cisco IOS IOSXR devices
  

• Knowledge of Element management system (ems) and network management system (nms)
  

• Ability to login to a cisco device and execute commands and debug
  

• Basic understanding of l3 and l2 protocols l3vpn bgp isis etc