Network Automation Specialist - L3 DevOps - Global Relay

For over 25 years, Global Relay has set the standard in enterprise information archiving with industry-leading cloud archiving, surveillance, eDiscovery, and analytics solutions. We securely capture and preserve the communications data of the world’s most highly regulated firms, giving them greater visibility and control over their information and ensuring compliance with stringent regulations.

Though we offer competitive compensation and benefits and all the other perks one would expect from an established company, we are not your typical technology company. Global Relay is a career-building company. A place for big ideas. New challenges. Groundbreaking innovation. It’s a place where you can genuinely make an impact – and be recognized for it.

We believe great businesses thrive on diversity, inclusion, and the contributions of all employees. To that end, we recruit candidates from different backgrounds and foster a work environment that encourages employees to collaborate and learn from each other, completely free of barriers.

Your role:

The Network Automation Specialist – L3 is primarily responsible for the planning and development of a comprehensive automation framework for network and firewall infrastructure. They will design and build orchestration tools for configuration and testing as well as tools for network monitoring and visibility by utilizing sflow, syslog, snmp and scripting.

Your responsibilities:

• Design, deploy, and support automation and scripting solutions to drive new capabilities, visibility, and efficiency, for network and firewall appliances
• Build Ansible code for configuring, monitoring, and analyzing network and firewall appliances using but not limited to RESTful APIs
• Build Python provisioning workflows such as Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP), Python Jinja2 template rendering, PostgreSQL inventory and automated device onboarding
• Design and develop Flask-based self-service portals and configuration management platforms exposing JSON REST APIs that enable network operations teams to safely configure, provision, and manage network devices through intuitive web interfaces
• Develop troubleshooting and debugging code to identify problems
• Explore different network operations activities and identify use-cases for automation
• Create meaningful reports and graphs from collected netflow, sflow, J-flow, or IPFIX records
• Setup logging and monitoring for network devices and create useful dashboards and graphs
• Participate in the creation of documentation including: Runbooks, how-to user guides & technical how-to support guides, and Method of Procedures (MoP)

About you:

• Minimum of 5+ years’ experience in a Network Automation capacity with strong coding skills in Python, JavaScript and Bash