Network Automation Engineer

BlueAlly

Job Description \u2013 Engineer I - Automation

Title

Network Automation Engineer

Description

As an Engineer I, the person is expected to participate as a mid to senior team member on technical projects. The person is expected to have deep experience and knowledge in their area of expertise with around 8 years of experience in the field.

Responsibilities

• Supports projects as a mid-to-senior team member with direction from a project lead and complies with the BlueAlly quality of delivering services
• May be part of a bigger delivery team and lead specific areas of a project related to the person's expertise
• Provide engineering support and technical expertise across multiple projects aligned with client needs.
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives and help ensure adherence to quality and compliance standards.
• Ability to create technical written documentation independently and to deliver briefings to client stakeholders in a roundtable setting in areas relating to the person's expertise
• Escalation of project impacting issues to the Delivery Directors or other appropriate leadership

Position Requirements

• 8 years of relevant engineering experience, ideally in a client-facing or project-driven environment.
• Expertise in a technical area with direction from senior technical leadership on specific tasks
• Able to support parts of sales support activities if/as necessary
• Provides support in Project Management requirements
• Often independent but with consistent checkpoints. Tasked by another to undertake specific technical activities.
• Deep experience in 1 technical area, developing breadth across 1+ additional areas
• Aware of specific client business requirements and how technical solutions being implemented support those requirements.
• Some experience and understanding specific to 1+ industries where the employee has worked
• Recognizes and can explain the business benefits their technical solution provides, short of quantifying those benefits.
• Able to create technical written documents (e.g., RFP response content, detail design and deployment deliverables) against specific topics/assignments independently and with few grammatical mistakes.
• Able to support, with guidance, the creation and delivery of select presentation content on specific technologies with which they have experience. Can deliver briefings to technical-to-mid level client stakeholders in a roundtable setting.
• Understands the need for project and financial information to be compared and aligned to forecast(s).
• Recognizes and acts independently on the different billing objectives by project type (T&M, FFP, Managed Services)
• Consistently maintains one's own forecast on respective efforts. Mentors more junior members in doing the same.
• Experience with Network Automation scripting and tooling. Examples: Ansible, Terraform, NetBox, and others.

Education

• One CCNP level certification or dual CCNA level certifications desired. Alternates could include but are not limited to VCAP, JNCIS, CCSE, or PCNSE (as examples).
• Two+ certifications at the next level below these with hands-on experience behind each desired.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent