HP France

Firewall and Network Automation Engineer

HP France

full-time

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Location Type: Office

Location: Bengaluru • India

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Tech Stack

AnsibleAzureFirewallsJavaScriptLinuxPythonServiceNowSwitchingVault

About the role

  • Automate Network Operations
  • Design, build, and maintain Python scripts and Ansible playbooks/roles for configuration management, compliance checks, drift detection, and bulk changes across firewalls and switches.
  • Integrate with vendor APIs/SDKs (e.g., Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS / Panorama, Aruba, HPE Comware) and standard protocols (SNMP, REST) to gather telemetry and execute changes safely.
  • ServiceNow Development
  • Build JavaScript (server-side & client-side) for ServiceNow to automate workflows, approvals, and data integrity for network changes (e.g., Change Requests, CMDB updates, discovery/normalization).
  • Develop integrations between ServiceNow and network tooling for end-to-end automation (e.g., auto-validate change windows, pre/post checks, and post-change verification).
  • Network Engineering Enablement
  • Create reusable automation modules, libraries, and Ansible Collections; establish coding standards, tests, and documentation.
  • Implement guardrails (linting, schema validation, dry-runs) and CI/CD pipelines for safe change deployment.
  • Partner with network and security engineers on firewall policy automation, NAT/routing updates, switch provisioning, and access segmentation.
  • Observability & Reliability
  • Build health checks and telemetry pipelines (SNMP polling, API collectors) to monitor config drift, rule hygiene, interface status, routing adjacencies, and policy efficacy.
  • Produce dashboards and reports for compliance, change success rates, and automation coverage.

Requirements

  • 3–7 years in a network automation / DevNet / infrastructure engineering role.
  • Strong Python (requests, asyncio, data parsing, error handling), packaging basics, and testing (pytest).
  • Ansible expertise (Jinja2, roles, filters, vault, inventories, idempotency) applied to network devices.
  • JavaScript for ServiceNow (Glide API, Business Rules, Script Includes, Flow Designer, Catalog, ACLs).
  • Solid understanding of IPv4 networking (subnetting, routing, ACLs, NAT, VRFs), firewalls, and L2/L3 switching concepts.
  • Hands-on with APIs (REST), SNMP (walks, MIBs, OIDs), and data formats (JSON/YAML).
  • Familiarity with at least one of: Palo Alto Networks (PAN‑OS/Panorama), HPE Comware, Aruba switching.
  • Version control and workflows with Git; comfort with code reviews and branching strategies.
  • Experience with Palo Alto Networks automation (pan‑os‑python, Panorama XML API), rule hygiene tooling, or policy-as-code concepts (nice to have).
  • Aruba/Comware automation via Ansible network modules, Netmiko/NAPALM, or vendor SDKs (nice to have).
  • CI/CD for infra code (GitHub Actions/Azure DevOps), artifact management, and secrets handling (nice to have).
  • Infra standards & compliance exposure (change management, approvals, peer review) (nice to have).
  • ServiceNow: ATF, CMDB data model, Discovery, and IntegrationHub spokes (nice to have).
  • Scripting beyond Python (e.g., PowerShell, Bash); basic Linux operational knowledge (nice to have).
Benefits
  • Health insurance
  • 401(k) matching
  • Flexible work hours
  • Paid time off
  • Professional development opportunities
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Hard Skills & Tools
PythonAnsibleJavaScriptAPIsSNMPGitCI/CDPowerShellBashLinux