Automation Engineer, Cisco CNC Upgrade

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Automation Engineer building Cisco CNC, NSO, Nokia NSP, and Python automation for Zayo’s multi-vendor telecom network. Improving reliability through telemetry, CI/CD, compliance, and automated remediation.

Responsibilities:

  • Design, develop, and maintain network automation solutions using Cisco CNC, Cisco NSO, Nokia NSP, Python, APIs, and related technologies
  • Automate network configuration, validation, monitoring, compliance, remediation, and maintenance across multi-vendor infrastructure
  • Build automated pre-checks and post-checks to verify routing, interfaces, adjacencies, reachability, and overall network health
  • Detect and remediate configuration drift, device synchronization issues, and deviations from network engineering standards
  • Integrate automation platforms with inventory, telemetry, monitoring, alarming, ticketing, and source-of-truth systems
  • Develop telemetry-driven and closed-loop automation to identify network issues and support automated remediation
  • Troubleshoot automation failures, controller issues, API integrations, and device-level problems; perform root-cause analysis
  • Identify repetitive manual processes and recurring failure patterns that can be reduced through automation
  • Maintain safe automation practices through testing, CI/CD, version control, rollback mechanisms, change validation, and blast-radius controls
  • Create operational tooling, dashboards, documentation, and runbooks that improve network visibility, troubleshooting, compliance, and engineering efficiency
  • Collaborate with network engineering teams to standardize operational practices and reduce manual intervention

Requirements:

  • Fundamental understanding of service provider networking, including TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, MPLS, SNMP, and network telemetry
  • Professional experience supporting or engineering large-scale service provider networks
  • Experience with network automation and orchestration platforms such as Cisco CNC, Cisco NSO, Nokia NSP, or similar technologies
  • Strong Python scripting skills for network automation, tooling, and API integrations
  • Experience with REST APIs, NETCONF/RESTCONF, YANG, or other network programmability technologies
  • Experience with Linux/Unix systems and troubleshooting network automation platforms and integrations
  • Experience with network monitoring, telemetry, configuration validation, and operational troubleshooting
  • Familiarity with Git, CI/CD, testing, and software development practices for maintaining production network automation
  • Associate’s degree in computer science, software engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)
  • Minimum of three (3) years of experience in software engineering, network engineering, or network automation support roles
  • Not eligible for employment-based visa sponsorship

Benefits:

  • Excellent Health, Dental & Vision Insurance
  • Retirement 401(k) Savings Plan
  • Generous paid time off policy including paid parental leave
  • Potential eligibility for a discretionary annual incentive plan
  • Life insurance
  • Disability plans
  • Equal opportunity employment and reasonable accommodation support