Supports projects as a mid-to-senior team member with direction from a project lead and complies with the BlueAlly quality of delivering services
May be part of a bigger delivery team and lead specific areas of a project related to the person’s expertise
Provide engineering support and technical expertise across multiple projects aligned with client needs.
Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives and help ensure adherence to quality and compliance standards.
Ability to create technical written documentation independently and to deliver briefings to client stakeholders in a roundtable setting in areas relating to the person’s expertise
Escalation of project impacting issues to the Delivery Directors or other appropriate leadership
Develop and maintain Python-based automation tools and scripts to streamline network provisioning, configuration management, and troubleshooting across a multi-vendor environment.
Build integrations between network platforms (Cisco SD-WAN, Meraki, Palo Alto Panorama, zScaler) and centralized management and monitoring systems.
Manage and extend NetBox as the network source of truth, including custom scripts, plugins, and API integrations.
Automate IPAM/DDI workflows across platforms such as Infoblox and Microsoft DHCP.
Create automation workflows that allow operations teams to execute changes safely and repeatably.
Develop automated compliance checks, configuration audits, and drift detection across the network estate.
Collaborate with stakeholders to identify automation opportunities and translate operational pain points into reliable, maintainable code.
Contribute to internal documentation, runbooks, and knowledge sharing around automation tooling and best practices.

Requirements

8+ years of relevant engineering experience, ideally in a client-facing or project-driven environment.
Expertise in a technical area with direction from senior technical leadership on specific tasks
Able to support parts of sales support activities if/as necessary
Provides support in Project Management requirements
Often independent but with consistent checkpoints.
Tasked by another to undertake specific technical activities.
Deep experience in 1 technical area, developing breadth across 1+ additional areas
Aware of specific client business requirements and how technical solutions being implemented support those requirements.
Some experience and understanding specific to 1+ industries where the employee has worked
Recognizes and can explain the business benefits their technical solution provides, short of quantifying those benefits.
Able to create technical written documents (e.g., RFP response content, detail design and deployment deliverables) against specific topics/assignments independently and with few grammatical mistakes.
Able to support, with guidance, the creation and delivery of select presentation content on specific technologies with which they have experience.
Can deliver briefings to technical-to-mid level client stakeholders in a roundtable setting.
Understands the need for project and financial information to be compared and aligned to forecast(s).
Recognizes and acts independently on the different billing objectives by project type (T&M, FFP, Managed Services)
Consistently maintains one’s own forecast on respective efforts.
Mentors more junior members in doing the same.
Solid understanding of network routing and switching concepts (OSPF, BGP, VLANs, spanning tree, VRFs, etc.).
Proficiency in Python with practical experience building network automation solutions.
Hands-on use of network automation libraries such as Netmiko, Nornir, NAPALM, Scrapli, and/or pyATS.
Practical experience with NetBox - deploying, customizing, and integrating it as a source of truth.
Comfort working with REST APIs, data serialization formats (JSON, YAML), and version control (Git).
Ability to write clean, well-documented, testable code - not just scripts that work once.
Nice to Have Experience integrating automation workflows with ServiceNow (CMDB sync, incident/change management APIs, catalog items).
Familiarity with AWS cloud networking services (VPCs, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, Route 53).
Familiarity with cloud DevOps practices and tooling (AWS and/or Azure DevOps)
Working knowledge of Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or OpenTofu.
Experience with Ansible and/or Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) for network device configuration management and orchestration.
Exposure to Cisco NSO for multi-vendor service orchestration.
Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and how they apply to network automation workflows.
Experience with containerization (Kubernetes/Docker) for packaging and deploying automation tooling.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools

Pythonnetwork automationnetwork routingnetwork switchingOSPFBGPVLANsspanning treeVRFsInfrastructure as Code

Soft Skills

technical documentationclient communicationmentoringindependent workproject managementproblem-solvingcollaborationcontinuous improvementpresentation skillsstakeholder engagement