Sr. Network Engineer - DevOps (Cloud)

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 ideal 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 networking.
• 4+ years of experience with automating network functions through tools such as Ansible, Python, Terraform etc.
• 3+ years of experience in public cloud security (e.g., AWS, Azure, AliCloud)
• 3+ years’ experience with Infrastructure automation solutions; deployment, management, and orchestration across multi-cloud environments using Terraform.
• 1+ years’ experience with CI/CD pipelines (Git-Actions, Jenkins, or Harness) or security tooling for cloud-native deployments.
• 1+ years’ experience with Palo alto firewalls provisioning using automation.
• Prior experience working with DevOps, CI/CD, GitOps, Agile methodologies.
• Expertise in Terraform in secure Infrastructure provisioning.

 

Technical Skills required:

 

• Certification in network and/or security technologies (e.g., CCIE, CCNP, CISSP, Cisco DevNet etc.)
• Certification in cloud providers – AWS, Azure (e.g., AWS Advanced Networking Specialty, AWS Security Specialty, AWS Solutions Architect Associate etc)
• Experience working in Prisma SASE/SSE, Palo alto firewalls, NGFW, PartnerNet Landing zones, SDWAN Landing zones.
• Experience with writing Infrastructure as a Code for Cloud network components (VPC, RT, TGW, WAN, Shared Services) as well as Firewalls as a Service, SDWAN, SSE/SASE. 
• Experience working in DevOps and Test-driven culture and managing code life cycle using Git and related processes & tools.
• Experience in Network automation software, libraries, and tools such as Netmiko, Nornir, Netbox, PyATS, Genie, F5 SDK, Pan-os-python etc.
• Knowledge managing Linux platforms.
• Experience with container technologies (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker, etc.)
• Experience with both private and public cloud infrastructure and interfacing programmatically through APIs
• A proactive approach to identifying problems, performance bottlenecks, and areas for improvement.
• Experience working in a Scrum team or other Agile methodologies with a proven track record.
• Experience in researching emerging technologies and trends, standards, and products and synthesizing into clear technology roadmaps and strategies.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills for a wide range of audiences including executives, business stakeholders, and IT teams.

 

General networking background expected:

 

• Implementation of WAN, LAN, and datacenter networks with a focus on mission-critical, customer-facing applications and services
• Technical knowledge in networking (Cisco and non-Cisco) with an emphasis on Datacenter netw