Sr. Automation Consultant

Key Responsibilities:

 

Customer Focus:

• Understand customer needs and design solutions that solve for their needs-short and long term

 Creative Solutioning:

• Understand customer problems and develop new solutions that are most effective and differentiated from our competitors

Strategic Client Relationship Management:

• Use a strategic approach to managing customer interactions and data throughout the customer journey with a goal of higher business growth through better customer experiences

Commercial Success:

• Builds strong customer relationships and delivers customer-centric solutions

End to End Solution Management/Delivery

• Builds strong customer relationships and delivers customer-centric solutions
• Lead client automation projects with a focus on strategy, enablement, and execution 
• Provide technical leadership during client engagements 
• Define automation architectures and designs that are simple and effective 
• Mentor and collaborate with peers to raise the bar for everyone, including yourself 
• Drive continuous improvement within the practice through development, collaboration, and mentorship 
• Contribute to the practice as a "librarian" of automation intellectual property 

Keys to Success:

• You have a programmability-first mindset 
• You excel at thoroughly documenting and communicating ideas to a broad audience 
• Your attention to detail and code-craft is unparalleled 
• You communicate and think in a structured manner 
• You're comfortable engaging with clients, partners, peers, and anyone who has valuable input 
• You have a heart of a teacher and a passion for enabling the success of others 
• You have domain expertise across multiple areas such as software development, infrastructure, cloud, observability & data analytics, robotic process automation, etc. 

Primary Focus:

Lead design and implementation of network infrastructure automation (provisioning, configuration, validation, and operational workflows).

Key Technical Skills:

• Networking: Enterprise routing/switching, multi-vendor (Cisco, Arista, Juniper)
• Infrastructure-as-Code: NetBox, Git/YAML, Jinja2 templates, version control
• Automation & Orchestration: Python (API automation, scripting), Ansible, Terraform, orchestration tools (Itential, StackStorm, AWX)
• Integration & APIs: REST/GraphQL, secrets management (Vault/CyberArk), IPAM (Infoblox/NetBox), artifact repositories
• Testing & Validation: Robot Framework, pytest, pyATS; test-driven automation
• DevOps Practices: CI/CD, containerization (Docker/Kubernetes/OpenShift), GitOps, documentation-as-code, observability

Preferred Experience:

• Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP)
• Multi-vendor abstraction and automation frameworks
• Secrets management and network security integration
• ITSM tools (ServiceNow, Jira, BMC)
• Pre/post-change validation automation

Soft Skills:

• Excellent documentation and knowledge-sharing skills
• Strong cross-team collaboration and communication
• Self-driven problem solver; comfortable with ambiguity
• Ability to convert business requirements into technical automation solutions

 

Qualifications:

•  Ability to perform concurrent tasks in complex environments under adjusting priorities
• Ability to communicate and modify approach, language, and style to different audiences
• Professional writing style and experience with demonstrable technical and business-related artifacts is required
• Collaborative, with the ability to manage conflicting interests and deal with ambiguity. 
• Effective communication skills: capable of supporting presentations to convey concepts and solutions, writing effective emails, and discussing strategy with senior executiv