Network Operations Engineer

Bright Vision Technologies is a technology consulting and software development company delivering cloud, AI, data, and enterprise solutions across the United States.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join an established and well-respected organization offering tremendous career growth potential.

Job Title: Network Operations Engineer
Location: 100% Remote (U.S.)
Position Type: Full-time, Direct W2
Salary Range: $100,000–$150,000 Annually
Experience Required: 6+ years

Sponsorship: U.S. Citizens, Green Card Holders, EAD Holders, and H-1B transfer candidates are encouraged to apply. We are unable to sponsor new H-1B visa petitions for this position.

Job Summary:
We are seeking a Network Operations Engineer who blends strong Python development skills with deep networking domain expertise to automate network configuration, change management, and observability across multi-vendor enterprise networks. The role focuses on building production-grade automation using modern network APIs, infrastructure-as-code, and CI/CD practices that bring software engineering discipline to network operations. The ideal candidate writes idiomatic Python, has shipped network automation in production, and combines networking depth with practical software-engineering rigor. In this role you will work closely with cross-functional partners — product, design, engineering, operations, and business stakeholders — to translate ambiguous requirements into well-engineered solutions, and will be expected to raise the bar through code review, design review, and mentorship of more junior engineers. The successful candidate brings strong engineering discipline, a clear communication style, and a track record of shipping meaningful work that holds up well in production.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and develop network automation solutions in Python using Netmiko, Nornir, NAPALM, and Scrapli.
• Build automation pipelines for configuration management, deployment, and validation across multi-vendor environments.
• Develop integrations with network APIs including NETCONF, RESTCONF, gNMI, and vendor-specific APIs.
• Implement source-of-truth platforms such as NetBox or Nautobot and drive automation from authoritative data.
• Build infrastructure-as-code for network configuration using Ansible, Terraform, and Jinja2 templating.
• Implement network testing and validation using pyATS, Genie, Batfish, and Suzieq.
• Develop CI/CD pipelines for network changes including pre-deployment validation and rollback.
• Build observability and telemetry pipelines using gNMI, streaming telemetry, and modern analytics platforms.
• Implement intent-based networking patterns and self-healing network workflows that let the network express desired state declaratively and converge toward it automatically when drift or failures occur.
• Automate compliance and audit workflows across the network estate, generating evidence on demand and continuously verifying that network configuration matches the policies the organization has committed to.
• Partner with network engineering teams to identify and automate high-impact manual workflows.
• Develop reusable libraries, frameworks, and abstractions adopted across multiple automation efforts.
• Mentor network engineers on Python development, software engineering practices, and modern automation patterns.
• Stay current with network automation tooling, vendor API evolution, and broader industry developments.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Networking, or a related field.
• Five or more years of network automation experience.
• Strong Python development skills including OOP, testing, and packaging.
• Deep networking fundamentals including routing, switching, and BGP.
• Hands-on experience with Netmiko, NAPALM, Nornir, or Scrapli.
• Experience with modern network APIs (NETCONF, RESTCONF, gNMI).
• Strong experience with Ansible and Jinja2 templating for network automation.
• Familiarity with NetB