Automation Engineer (Cisco CNC Upgrade)

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Automation Engineer (Cisco CNC Upgrade) based in United States. This role focuses on building and advancing network automation solutions across large-scale, multi-vendor service provider infrastructure. You will work with Cisco CNC, Cisco NSO, Nokia NSP, Python, APIs, and modern network programmability technologies. The position plays a key role in improving network reliability, operational efficiency, and engineering consistency. You will automate configuration, validation, monitoring, compliance, remediation, and maintenance activities. The role also emphasizes telemetry-driven automation, observability, CI/CD, safe change controls, and automated troubleshooting. You will collaborate closely with network engineering teams to reduce manual intervention and standardize operational practices. This is a fully remote opportunity for an engineer who enjoys combining networking expertise with software-driven automation. Accountabilities: - Design, develop, and maintain network automation solutions using Cisco CNC, Cisco NSO, Nokia NSP, Python, APIs, and related technologies, supporting configuration, maintenance, validation, and operational activities across multi-vendor environments. - Build automated pre-checks and post-checks that validate routing, interfaces, adjacencies, reachability, synchronization, and overall network health before and after changes.

- Develop capabilities to detect and remediate configuration drift, synchronization issues, and deviations from established network engineering standards. - Integrate automation platforms with inventory, telemetry, monitoring, alarming, ticketing, and source-of-truth systems to create more connected and efficient operational workflows. - Develop telemetry-driven and closed-loop automation that identifies network issues and enables appropriate automated remediation, while troubleshooting controller, API, device-level, and automation failures through structured root-cause analysis. - Identify repetitive manual processes and recurring failure patterns that can be reduced through automation, improving reliability and engineering efficiency across the network. - Maintain safe and reliable automation practices through testing, CI/CD, version control, rollback mechanisms, change validation, and blast-radius controls, while creating dashboards, operational tooling, documentation, and runbooks that improve visibility and troubleshooting. Requirements - Demonstrated understanding of service provider networking concepts and technologies, including TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, MPLS, SNMP, and network telemetry, with professional experience supporting or engineering large-scale service provider networks. - Hands-on experience with network automation and orchestration platforms such as Cisco CNC, Cisco NSO, Nokia NSP, or comparable technologies, combined with strong Python skills for automation, tooling, and API integrations. - Experience working with REST APIs, NETCONF/RESTCONF, YANG, or other network programmability technologies, as well as Linux/Unix environments and troubleshooting of automation platforms and integrations. - Practical experience with network monitoring, telemetry, configuration validation, operational troubleshooting, and the investigation of network automation failures and integration issues. - Familiarity with Git, CI/CD, automated testing, version control, and software development practices for maintaining production-grade network automation solutions. - An Associate’s degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field is preferred, or equivalent practical experience, along with at least three years of experience in software engineering, network engineering, or network automation support roles.