Python Software Engineer - Network Management & DDI

Bluffdale, UT

$50–$60 Per Hour
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Job Title: Python Software Engineer – Network Management & DDI

Position Description: Protingent Staffing has an exciting contract Python Software Engineer – Network Management & DDI with our client located in Riverton, UT.

Job Description:

We are looking for a Python Software Engineer to design and develop software platforms for enterprise network and infrastructure management, with a particular focus on DNS, DHCP, and IP Address Management (DDI/IPAM).
This is primarily a software development role. You will build Python services, APIs, automation frameworks, and integrations that manage network resources and provide infrastructure capabilities as programmable, self-service services.
You will work closely with networking, datacenter, compute, storage, and platform engineering teams to transform traditionally manual network-management processes into scalable, API-driven software solutions.

Job Responsibilities:

Python Software Development:
- Design, develop, test, and maintain production-quality software primarily in Python.
- Build scalable backend services, APIs, libraries, and automation frameworks for infrastructure and network management.
- Apply modern software engineering practices including code reviews, automated testing, CI/CD, version control, API design, and software lifecycle management.
- Design software that can reliably operate across multiple datacenters and large infrastructure environments.
- Troubleshoot complex software and distributed-system problems and implement sustainable fixes.
Network Management Software – DNS, DHCP & IPAM:
- Design and develop software solutions for enterprise DNS, DHCP, and IP Address Management (DDI/IPAM).
- Build software for automated IP allocation, reservation, discovery, reclamation, and lifecycle management.
- Develop APIs and workflows for managing DNS records, DHCP configuration, subnets, address pools, leases, and related network resources.
- Build integrations between DDI/IPAM platforms and compute, networking, provisioning, cloud, and datacenter systems.
- Develop software to automate network-resource onboarding and configuration across multiple datacenters and environments.
- Help establish authoritative infrastructure data and source-of-truth models for network resources.
APIs, Automation & Platform Integration:
- Design and implement REST APIs and other programmatic interfaces for network and infrastructure services.
- Build integrations with infrastructure platforms, CMDBs, provisioning systems, and automation frameworks.
- Develop event-driven and workflow-based automation for infrastructure lifecycle management.
- Build solutions that dynamically allocate and recycle IP addresses and other network resources for compute infrastructure.
- Integrate network-management services with bare-metal provisioning, PXE/network boot, virtualization, and cloud workflows.
- Enable infrastructure capabilities to be consumed through APIs and self-service platforms rather than manual operational processes.
Reliability & Observability:
- Build monitoring, metrics, logging, and health-check capabilities into network-management services.
- Implement dashboards and alerting using technologies such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or similar platforms.
- Define and track service metrics such as availability, latency, capacity, error rates, and resource utilization.
- Participate in incident response and root-cause analysis for software and network-management services.
- Improve reliability through automation, testing, observability, and operational tooling.

Job Qualifications:

5+ years of relevant experience
Bachelor's degree required
Software Engineering:
- Strong Python programming skills and professional software development experience.
- Experience designing and developing production backend services and applications.
- Strong understanding of software engineering fundamentals, including:
- Object-oriented and modular software design
- REST API design
- Data structures and algorithms
- Automated testing
- Git and modern development workflows
- CI/CD
- Debugging and performance troubleshooting
- Experience developing software that integrates with external systems through APIs, databases, messaging systems, or event-driven architectures.
- Strong Linux development and troubleshooting skills.
Networking & DDI:
- Solid understanding of networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, subnets, routing, VLANs, DNS, and DHCP.
- Experience with or strong knowledge of IP Address Management (IPAM).
- Understanding of DNS zones, records, resolution, DHCP scopes, leases, reservations, and IP address lifecycle management.
- Experience developing or integrating network-management systems through APIs.
- Ability to translate networking requirements into maintainable software abstractions and automated workflows.
Infrastructure Automation:
- Experience with infrastructure automation tools such as Ansible, Puppet, or similar technologies.
- Familiarity with CMDB or infrastructure source-of-truth systems.
- Understanding of bare-metal provisioning and infrastructure lifecycle management.
- Experience building automated infrastructure onboarding and provisioning workflows.
Collaboration & Ownership:
- Comfortable working across software engineering, networking, compute, storage, datacenter, and SRE teams.
- Ability to take ownership of a software service from architecture and development through deployment and production operations.
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to turn ambiguous infrastructure requirements into well-defined software solutions.
- Strong focus on automation, reliability, maintainability, and scalability.
Nice To Have:
Experience developing or operating enterprise DDI/IPAM platforms such as Nautobot, NetBox, Infoblox, BlueCat, Kea DHCP, BIND, or similar technologies.
Experience building network automation or network management software.
Experience with FastAPI, Flask, Django, or similar Python frameworks.
Experience with PostgreSQL or other relational databases.
Experience with Kubernetes, containers, and cloud-native application development.
Experience with event-driven architectures, message queues, or workflow engines.
Experience with large-scale internal infrastructure platforms or Infrastructure as a Product.
SRE or DevOps experience.
Experience with multi-datacenter or hybrid-cloud environments.
Familiarity with PXE, network boot, OS imaging, and server bootstrap/provisioning systems.

Job Details:

Job Type: Contract
Pay Rate: $50-$60/hr.
Location: Riverton, UT (Onsite)

Benefits Package: Protingent offers competitive salaries, insurance plan options (HDHP plan or POS plan), education/certification reimbursement, pre-tax commuter benefits, Paid Time Off (PTO) and an administered 401k plan.

About Protingent: Protingent is an Award-Winning provider of top-tier Engineering and IT talent, trusted by companies at the forefront of innovation — from Software and Aerospace to AI, Clean Tech, Medical Devices, and Connected Technologies. We’re passionate about making a positive impact by connecting exceptional talent with meaningful opportunities and helping our clients build the future.

Numbers & Facts

Location	Bluffdale, UT
Salary	$50–$60 Per Hour

Skills

Address Managementunmatched
Algorithmsunmatched
Ansibleunmatched
Application Programming Interface (API)unmatched
Automationunmatched
BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain) DNS Server softwareunmatched
Bootingunmatched
Bootstrapunmatched
Cloud Applicationsunmatched
Cloud Computingunmatched
Code Reviewsunmatched
Computer Networksunmatched
Computer Programmingunmatched
Continuous Deployment/Deliveryunmatched
Continuous Integrationunmatched
Customer Support/Serviceunmatched
DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol)unmatched
DNS (Domain Name System)unmatched
Data Structuresunmatched
Debugging Skillsunmatched
DevOpsunmatched
Distributed Computingunmatched
Djangounmatched
Gitunmatched
Home Automationunmatched
Hybrid Cloudunmatched
IP (Internet Protocol)unmatched
Identify Issuesunmatched
Incident Responseunmatched
Intellectual Property (IP)unmatched
Linux Operating Systemunmatched
Machine Toolunmatched
Messaging Middlewareunmatched
Messaging Technologyunmatched
Metricsunmatched
Network Administration/Managementunmatched
Network Integrationunmatched
Network Management Softwareunmatched
Network Operations Centerunmatched
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Network Routingunmatched
Network Softwareunmatched
Object Oriented Softwareunmatched
Onboardingunmatched
Operations Processesunmatched
PostgreSQLunmatched
Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
Puppet (Configuration Management)unmatched
Python Programming/Scripting Languageunmatched
Quality Managementunmatched
REST (Representational State Transfer)unmatched
Records Managementunmatched
Recyclingunmatched
Relational Databases (RDBMS)unmatched
Reliability Engineeringunmatched
Reporting Dashboardsunmatched
Resource Managementunmatched
Resource Utilizationunmatched
Root Cause Analysisunmatched
Scalable System Developmentunmatched
Software Administrationunmatched
Software Designunmatched
Software Developmentunmatched
Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)unmatched
Software Engineeringunmatched
Source Code/Configuration Management (SCM)unmatched
Storage Softwareunmatched
Subnetunmatched
TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol)unmatched
Test Automationunmatched
Test Plan/Scheduleunmatched
VLAN (Virtual Local Area Network)unmatched
Virtualizationunmatched

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