Network Automation Engineer

International Business Machines Corp

Yorktown Heights, NY

JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
Ansible, Automation, Automation Engineering, Best Practices, Business Operations, Continuous Deployment/Delivery, Continuous Integration, Mentoring, Network Administration/Management, Network Architecture/Engineering, Network Design, Network Integration, Network Security, Network Systems, Security Infrastructure, Team Building, Validation Testing
LOCATION
Yorktown Heights, NY
POSTED
10 days ago

As our infrastructure continues to expand across multiple environments and global locations, we are growing our network engineering team to support increasing scale, complexity, and operational demands.

We are seeking an Infrastructure Automation Engineer (Network focus) who combines deep networking expertise with strong automation capabilities to help design and implement modern, scalable approaches to managing network and security infrastructure. The ideal candidate will possess an automation-first mindset, be execution focused, comfortable working across domains while maintaining operational awareness.

Your Role and Responsibilities:

  • Design and implement scalable, automated solutions for managing enterprise network infrastructure.
  • Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices for network systems using tools such as Ansible and related technologies.
  • Integrate network automation workflows into CI/CD pipelines to enable consistent and repeatable deployments.
  • Collaborate with infrastructure, platform, and engineering teams to ensure end-to-end reliability and operational consistency.
  • Define and drive adoption of standards, best practices, and reusable frameworks for network automation.
  • Build and maintain templated configurations and modular automation components supporting multiple environments and locations.
  • Implement validation, testing, and compliance mechanisms to ensure safe and reliable network changes.
  • Contribute to network architecture and design discussions with an emphasis on automation and scalability.
  • Mentor team members and help drive adoption of modern, software-driven operational practices.

This role plays a key part in enabling consistent, scalable, and reliable network operations across a growing global infrastructure footprint.

You will be part of a team building the infrastructure that powers one of the most advanced computing initiatives in the world. This role offers the opportunity to shape how network infrastructure is designed, operated, and scaled in a cutting-edge, globally distributed environment.

About the Company

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International Business Machines Corp

At IBM, you don’t need a degree to shape the future. Just bring your skills—and your passion. To build. To design. To code. To consult. To think along with clients and sell. To make markets. To invent. To collaborate.

Not just to do something better, but to attempt things you've never thought possible. To lead in this new era of technology and solve some of the world's most challenging problems. Let’s get to work.

COMPANY SIZE
10,000 employees or more
INDUSTRY
Computer/IT Services
FOUNDED
1911
WEBSITE
http://www-03.ibm.com/employment/us/