Network Automation Engineer
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The Network Automation Engineer will develop scripts and processes to automate traffic moves for a multi-year migration from a legacy IP core to a new IP Core. The role includes discovering network inventory, assessing automation scope, creating migration use cases and user interfaces, gathering user requirements, supporting changes caused by code upgrades, and managing security compliance for newly developed tools.
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Job Description
The Network Automation Engineer will be focused on scripting automated tasks to support a core migration project. This is a multi-year effort to move traffic off legacy IP core to a new IP Core. This individual will develop processes/automation to support traffic moves. Additional responsibilities include:
- Discovery of network inventory.
- Assessment of the scope to develop automation from manual steps for Mobility IPE routers, IPAG VPLS routers, Dedicated Compute Unit (DCU), and Network Cloud (NC).
- Creation of automation steps for different use cases for migration.
- Creation of User Interface for each use case.
- Collect user requirements and user stories for each use case to be developed.
- The scope of the automation development may expand if new use cases are added to the scope for migration to the new IP Core.
- Ongoing development and support for changes to the command structure for each of the environments due to code upgrades.
- Manage security compliance for the newly developed tools to standards. Participation in planning meetings.
Skills and Requirements
- 5 years of experience automating workflows in a network environment.
- High proficiency leveraging Python specifically for automating network processes.
- Low-code/no-code platform experience.
- User-level experience with a ticketing platform such as Jira or ServiceNow.
- Reading and writing level ability with JavaScript.
- Current or expired network certification (CCNA, JNCIA, NetworkPlus, etc).
- Node-Red experience.
- Reading and writing level ability with Perl.
We are a company committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments where people can bring their full, authentic selves to work every day. We are an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer that believes everyone matters. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, national origin, ancestry, genetic factors, age, disability, protected veteran status, military or uniformed service member status, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to [email protected].
How this job compares
Set against the 4,085 open Network Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 3, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- Texas median$116–187K/yr137 salary ranges
- US median$51–61/hr155 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 246 open Network Engineer jobs in Texas and 4,085 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; Network Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (3,539 postings).
- Education
- 1,225 of the 4,085 open Network Engineer jobs (30%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 3, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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