Network Automation and DevOps Architect

Someone who can lead a team & project and put together an HLD. In this case, they won’t have any direct reports.

• The Network Automation and DevOps Architect is responsible for designing, building, and guiding the implementation of scalable automation platforms that support modern network operations.
• This role combines network engineering expertise, software development practices, DevOps principles, and infrastructure architecture to help organizations automate, standardize, and improve how they design, deploy, operate, and govern network infrastructure.
• This architect will play a key role in defining automation platform patterns, integrating systems of record and sources of truth, building reusable automation workflows, and enabling teams to adopt infrastructure-as-code practices.
• The role is especially focused on platform infrastructure, including Nautobot, CI/CD pipelines, automation runners, observability, data integrations, and supporting services required to operate a reliable network automation ecosystem.
• The ideal candidate has deep experience with network automation, strong familiarity with DevOps practices, and the ability to translate business and operational requirements into practical platform designs., * Design and implement network automation platforms that support source of truth, configuration management, compliance, lifecycle management, observability, and operational workflows.
• Architect and deploy Nautobot-based solutions, including core data models, apps, plugins, integrations, jobs, APIs, and source-of-truth workflows.
• Develop platform architecture patterns for automation environments, including application hosting, CI/CD pipelines, secrets management, artifact repositories, execution environments, container platforms, and observability.
• Integrate Nautobot and other automation platforms with systems such as ServiceNow, Ansible Automation Platform, Git, CI/CD tools, IPAM/DDI, monitoring systems, cloud platforms, and network controllers.
• Define and implement infrastructure-as-code and automation standards using tools such as Python, Ansible, Terraform, Git, Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD platforms.
• Create reusable automation frameworks, modules, playbooks, pipelines, and reference architectures that improve delivery consistency and operational maturity.
• Lead technical discovery sessions to understand network operations processes, existing tooling, data sources, platform requirements, security constraints, and integration needs.
• Translate customer or business requirements into technical architecture, implementation plans, platform designs, and operational runbooks.
• Guide teams on automation best practices, including version control, testing, validation, peer review, release management, environment promotion, and rollback strategies.
• Support the development of data models and source-of-truth strategies for network inventory, circuits, IP addressing, VLANs, device lifecycle, configuration state, and operational metadata.
• Design secure and resilient platform infrastructure, including authentication, authorization, role-based access control, secrets handling, backup and recovery, high availability, logging, monitoring, and upgrade strategies.
• Collaborate with network engineers, software developers, DevOps engineers, product owners, project managers, and business stakeholders to deliver automation outcomes.
• Provide technical leadership during implementation, troubleshooting, platform migrations, upgrades, integrations, and production readiness activities.
• Document architecture decisions, design patterns, integration flows, operational processes, and platform support requirements.
• Mentor engineers and delivery teams in network automation, DevOps practices, Nautobot solution design, and platform engineering principles.

Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S.

We are an equal-opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or employment against any individual based on race, color, gender, national origin, ancestry, religion, physical or mental disability, age, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, pregnancy, citizenship, or any other factor protected by anti-discrimination laws.

Do you have experience in Version control systems?

$100 - $110 an hour - Full-time