Network Automation Engineer - Hybrid

Your opportunity

The Network Observability and Automation team provides monitoring, telemetry and automation solutions for the network engineering organization at Schwab. Our automation practice develops pragmatic, reliable and repeatable process automation, and optimization through a combination of network engineering knowledge and coding. We are looking for someone with a passion for building software defined functionality within a programmable infrastructure and driving process transformation to make Schwab’s infrastructure highly automatable.

This role is instrumental in improving the organization’s automation framework and processes, along with developing code and playbooks. The engineer will partner with multiple infrastructure and operations teams, ensuring successful and efficient deployment solutions and creating corresponding documentation.

In this role the primary responsibilities include (but are not limited to): 

• Architect, develop and support automation solutions for the Network Services organization
• Maintain and support platforms used to deliver automation and monitoring solutions
• Investigating complex technical issues and working with partnering personnel and vendors to resolve complex issues
• Work within the Agile framework to provide estimates and deliver new product functionality in a timely and efficient manner
• Provide clear and accurate documentation as well as provide training to other Schwab team members as needed
• Leading delivery efforts around network engineering automation initiatives; contribute code and engage in code reviews, following best practice methodologies
• Developing concepts into fully architected production-ready solutions
• Assessing current network engineering implementations and recommending automation processes to improve availability, validation and successful deployments
• Improving and promoting configuration and lifecycle management processes
• Creating software that manages and maintains a multi-vendor, network environment
• Assessing and developing Infrastructure as Code solutions that encompass hybrid infrastructure deployment
• Ability to manage multiple projects of varying size and technical complexity
• Ability to focus on the details without losing sight of the bigger picture

What you have

• 10+ years of engineering experience in networking, including data center, cloud and large campus infrastructures
• Experience with Ansible Engine and Tower, API Frameworks and Terraform
• Experience with DevOps tools, including Bitbucket, Git, CI/CD pipelines and Linux
• Experience using BitBucket and Bamboo or GitHub and GitHub Actions
• Proficiency with Python
• Proficient in both Linux and Windows as well as common network platforms such as routers, switches, firewalls and load balancers.
• Experience working with Agile, Scrum and Kanban work processes
• Engineering degree, or a related technical field or equivalent experience
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Experience in building REST microservces and web based applications
• Experience with Containers and Container repositories like Harbor
• Experience with implementing network monitoring and telemetry solutions
• Experience with vendor specific configuration solutions such as DCNM and Arista Cloud Vision
• Cisco CCNA, CCNP or CCIE certifications