FLEX Senior Network DevOps Engineer

This is a temporary position. 

JOB SUMMARY

 

Automation being a huge part of Marriott’s global network strategy, we are looking for an enthusiastic team member with passion to innovate and excel, to join our amazing Network DevOps team as Senior Network DevOps Engineer. The Network DevOps team is responsible for Marriott’s Global Network and automates, maintains and manages the Core network services, Network Monitoring tools and Security infrastructure. The team is tasked to automate 100% of the Global Network operations and find innovative ways to improve the global end-user experience. We are building the next generation innovative and self-healing network automation platform and are eager to find people to help us achieve these goals and beyond.

 

The deal candidate has:

-           Proven design and implementation experience in different networking technologies such as Routers & Switches, Firewalls, WAN, Network Monitoring Tools, and Network security infrastructure.

-           A passion to find out network operations use cases and automate them using tools such as Ansible and Python.

-           An eagerness to listen to business, abstract the complexity from it and provide intelligent automated solutions.

-           A comprehensive Networking background, who has then moved towards automating the daily network operational and compliance tasks.

-           A passion to automate everything, and nothing can stop you from finding a way to do that.

 

You will:

-          Be working closely and collaboratively with expert network architects and great engineers.

-          Be a key contributor to drive adoption of Network Automation practices and operating models across all Global Network teams.

-          Be accountable for establishing technical level relationships and partnering with all business disciplines and other MI teams to define and implement the network automation solution.

 

CANDIDATE PROFILE

 

Minimum qualifications and experience required:

 

-                 Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related technical field experience/certification

-                 7+ years' experience as a Network Engineer with Designing and Implementing complex network infrastructure.

-                 6+ years of experience with developing Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and Software-defined networks (SDN) across all Network device functions including Routers, Switches, Firewalls, Load Balancers. 

-                 6+ years' experience with automating network functions using Ansible

-                 3+ years of experience administering the Ansible Automation platform & managing Network Source of Truth systems to support automation workloads.

-                 3+ years of experience in building Network test frameworks

-                 3+ years of experience in building CI & CD pipelines such as GitHub Actions, Harness & Helm charts.

-                 Experience in Network automation software, libraries and tools such as Netmiko, Nornir, F5 SDK, Pan-os-python, Palo Strata Cloud manager sdk etc.

-                 Experience with writing automations for Compliance management, Configuration management, SoT, Golden configs

-                 2+ years’ experience as part of a network operations team.

 

Technical Skills required:

 

-          Certification in network and/or security technologies (e.g., CCIE, CCNP, CISSP, Cisco DevNet etc.)

-          Expertise in developing Ansible automations to manage network devices (Cisco, HP, Checkpoint, PaloAlto, etc.). Be comfortable with designing ansible framework to support automation use cases, well defined roles, functions, filters.  

-          Experience working in DevOps and Test-driven culture and managing code life cycle using Git and related processes & tools.

-          Knowledge