Network Automation Engineer

TEKsystems•Santa Clara, CA

3d•$40 - $65•Onsite

About The Position

We are seeking an engineering-focused infrastructure engineer to support New Product Introduction (NPI) of Enterprise systems. This role sits at the front edge of innovation—building the first deployments, navigating unknowns, and creating the tools, automation, and standards that enable platform teams to scale globally. This is not a technician or runbook-following role. Engineers in this team design, prototype, automate, and standardize how new systems, clusters, and infrastructure are brought online for the first time. Once stabilized, these solutions are handed off to partner platform teams for scale. This role designs and creates the tools that others use. Enable engineering teams to build, validate, and ship next-generation products by: Preparing infrastructure before systems arrive, Automating complex, repetitive deployment work, Designing cluster-level networking, observability, and health management, Creating tools and SOPs that turn weeks of work into minutes.

Requirements

Python
Ansible
Linux
Test automation
Devops
network automation
automation design

Responsibilities

Lead infrastructure bring-up for NPI enterprise products
Work directly with product and engineering teams to understand new hardware, software, and infrastructure requirements
Navigate ambiguity to define what tools, automation, and infrastructure changes are required
Prepare labs and data center environments to receive first-of-kind systems
Design and build automation, scripts, and deployment tooling used by platform teams at scale
Reduce manual, repetitive deployment work (e.g., reducing multi-day installs to minutes)
Create clear standard operating procedures (SOPs) for system and cluster deployment
Develop “golden paths” and reusable infrastructure patterns
Design and deploy cluster-level infrastructure, not just single nodes
Engineer networking topologies for clusters, pods, and superpods
Support cluster-level: Provisioning, Manageability, Health monitoring, Triage and diagnostics
Partner with platform teams to ensure solutions scale without rework
Build and integrate observability and monitoring stacks for infrastructure and clusters
Enable proactive health monitoring and faster triage
Ensure systems remain available and reliable for engineering workloads
Partner closely with Platform / Deployment teams (consumers of your tools)
Act as an engineering multiplier—build once, enable many
Support the broader goal of accelerating product development and time-to-market