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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Network Automation Engineer (Starshield) - **Company:** Space Exploration Technologies Corp. - **Location:** Hawthorne, CA, United States - **Experience:** Experienced - **Salary:** $120,000.0 - $170,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Microsoft Access, Bash Shell, Linux, DevOps, Monitoring of Systems, IPv4, IPv6, Python (Programming Language), Network Architecture, Network Protocols, Reliability Engineering, Ansible, Prometheus, Data Streaming, Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), Grafana, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Information Technology, Puppet, Open Network Automation Platform - **Published:** June 2, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=a6038926dcb456f0 ## About the Role Do you have experience in Linux?, * Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, math, or science discipline; OR 2+ years of professional network automation, DevOps, network engineering, or site reliability engineering experience in lieu of a degree * Experience with networking protocols, their application and traffic types: TCP/IPv4/IPv6, gaming, voice, video, broadcast, streaming * Experience with Linux operating system * Automation experience in Python, Shell, Bash, and/or other languages PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE: * Comfortable working with mission critical and sensitive systems, with a sense of urgency appropriate to the responsibilities * Understanding of carrier and service provider networks * Experience with hands-on work in bringing up network infrastructure * Experience with automatically managing dozens or hundreds of network assets * Experience with Puppet, Ansible, or other automation frameworks * Ability to run projects independently * Excellent communications skills with the ability to communicate with customers, peers, management etc. in both formal and informal situations * Experience with Prometheus, Grafana and other monitoring tools * Ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret or Top Secret SCI clearance ## Description As a Network Automation Engineer you will help create the tooling to expand and monitor the Starshield service provider network. You and your teammates will own the design and implementation of these tools and monitoring strategies all while continually improving existing processes and tools. You will be helping provide visibility into a network that supports critical national security missions and will be challenged to maintain critical systems and services., * Deploy, upgrade, operate/maintain, and scale a global networking service to government customers. * Closely collaborate with software engineers to create highly operable and maintainable infrastructure * Measure, maintain, and improve the uptime and performance of the terrestrial network * Act as technical product owner for infrastructure tools and software used in the ground network (Access, Backbone and Edge Networks) * Innovate ways to scale with automation and operational improvements * Provide mentorship to junior engineers * Participate in the on-call rotation ## Related Videos - [IP Authentication: A Tale of Performance Pitfalls and Challenges in Prod](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1413-ip-authentication-a-tale-of-performance-pitfalls-and-challenges-in-prod) - [IoT: The road to sustainability](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/557-iot-the-road-to-sustainability) - [Docker network without Docker](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1418-docker-network-without-docker) - [Small, Secure, Interconnected: The next Internet Protocol](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100062-small-secure-interconnected-the-next-internet-protocol) - [Robots are coming into the wild! 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