Network Automation Engineer - Devops - Contract To Hire - W2 Only (No C2C)

Network Automation Engineer
REMOTE POSITION AS CONTRACTOR.
Core hours 8 am-5 pm EST.
The position is a Contract to Hire. If converted, this is a Hybrid position with 3 days a week in the office. Locations include Bloomfield, CT, St. Louis, MO, Philadelphia, PA, or Bloomington, MN. 
As a NetDevops team, we are bringing Software Engineering, Agile & DevOps principles to Enterprise Networking, and Enterprise Networking into the DevOps team. NetDevOps is infrastructure as code; it is automating network engineering/operations to the furthest extent possible.
Our Goals:

• Deliver infrastructure as code that has had automated end-to-end testing, documentation via published work & development processes & standards.
• Greatly reduce repetitive boring manual tasks so you can work on the fun challenging projects that advance efficiency and operational integrity of ***'s IT infrastructure.
• Prevent fat finger mistakes or other errors and revert configurations back to the last working configuration in order to restore network services as quickly as possible.

As a Network Automation Engineer you will:

• Interact with network engineers to create innovative solutions to reduce network impacting incidents, improve speed and accuracy of changes, reduce manual work and also enhance network tooling visibility.
• Build REST APIs using Python.
• Work closely with QA team to include automated testing into the build pipeline
• Work with the team to improve process, practice and tools in support of software development and delivery by improving our existing pipeline
• Documenting the existing standards and develop designs to improve the efficiency of the automation solutions
• Work in an Agile framework, and will be part of the Scrum ceremonies like Sprint Planning, Daily Stand up, Sprint review and retrospective etc.
• Maintains the continuous integration servers used by the team. Support the team during code releases.
• Responsible for resolving infrastructure related events if an issue arises.

Skills:

• Expert in automation with solid experience in Network automation with Python.
• Four years’ experience with Django & Django Rest Framework
• Expertise with building end to end pipelines.
• Extensive experience with CI tools such as Jenkins.
• Experience with using Ansible Vault and creating Ansible Playbooks
• Strong background in Linux, with a focus on RedHat in an enterprise production environment.
• Experience using configuration management software like Ansible or Puppet.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker
• Experienced with Agile development environment
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools especially Git
• Experienced with REST and SOAP API integrations
• Two to four years’ experience with modern web technologies (such as Angular, Node, Grunt, Gulp, Webpack, Bootstrap, TypeScript, HTML5, etc.) Emphasis on Angular/TypeScript
• Exposure to RESTAPI, web applications testing like SoapUI, Postman etc.
• Experience coding automation tests in a web application environment (Selenium, pytest etc.)
• Strong interest in learning new and emerging technologies.
• Networking experience (e.g. protocols, routing, switching, filtering, firewall rules, etc.) is a plus

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree PREFERRED (Business or Computer Science preferred) or equivalent work experience.
• 4+ years of Python development experience
• 3+ years of solid DevOps experience.

Desired Skills

• Excellent communication and mentoring skills.
• Creative problem-solving abilities and attention to detail.
• Interpersonal skills to interact with customers and team members.
• Ability to multitask and prioritize workload.

For more information please contact Tom Mazzulla at  tmazzulla@itechsolutions.com
Since 1995, iTech Solutions Inc., has been providing IT Consulting and Direct Hire Services to the Insurance, Financial, Communications, Manufacturing  and Government sectors with local offices in Connecticut, Minnesota, Colorado,  Massachusetts, Tennessee, North Carolina, and New Jersey / Pennsylvania area. 
Our recruiting strategy is simple, if you want to find qualified IT professionals then use IT professionals to find them.   So at iTech Solutions,  our personnel are all career IT professionals with a wide range of IT experience.  We can honestly say our staff understands the technologies, the complexities of finding and selecting the appropriate personnel and the pressures of running successful IT projects.  
Employer will not sponsor applicants for any employment visas, at hiring or in the future, including but not limited to H-1B visas. Corp-to-Corp or subcontract personnel will not be considered for this position.