‘Tech Manager I – Network Automation Lead’ will be part of the IT Infrastructure team that Deployment & Operational support for Network, services and requirements across the Flipkart Corporate ,Supply Chain and Customer Support centers. The IT Infrastructure team is also responsible for managing heterogeneous environments & generating metrics related to Network performance, capacity, availability, failure rates, etc. Specific experience with Large scale WAN, Campus LAN, Campus WLAN, Voice network, Data Center networking & Security is must with strong technical orientation & creativity in problem solving.
Responsibilities & requirements:
- Design, develop, and implement automation workflows to streamline network operations and processes, utilizing tools such as Ansible, Python.
- Collaborate with network engineering teams to identify opportunities for automation, ensuring alignment with business objectives and network architecture standards.
- Perform rigorous testing of automation scripts and tools in a lab environment before deployment in production to ensure reliability and efficiency.
- Manage and maintain the network automation infrastructure, including version control systems and automation servers, to ensure high availability and performance.
- Develop custom scripts to automate data collection for network performance monitoring and generate reports for analysis by the network operations team.
- Implement security practices within automation workflows to safeguard network data and infrastructure from unauthorized access or breaches.
- Troubleshoot and resolve issues within automated processes, applying debugging tools and techniques to ensure minimal disruption to network services.
- Document automation processes, including code comments, user manuals, and operational procedures, to ensure knowledge transfer and adherence to best practices within the team.
- Drive automation within the team and influence others .
- Ability to handle multiple complex tasks in a dynamic environment, with tight deadlines concurrently.
- Mentoring the next layer members in the team.
- Generate meaningful reports to improve the team’s performance.
- Automation of repetitive network tasks through efficient, reusable code minimizes human error and boosts operational efficiency
Experience & Qualifications:
- 3 -4 Years of overall experience in networking – started with hands on role and played key roles in managing IPv4/IPv6 large scale enterprise networks(Routers/Switch/Firewalls/Wireless)
- 2 -3 years of experience in creating network automation for operations and implementation tasks.
- Strong knowledge on automation tools like Python, Ansible, Perl.
- Knowledge on network reporting tools like Spotfire,Powerbi.
- Good on cloud automation or network security automation.
- Strong knowledge on ITIL process.
- Automation to be the key driving force for the team and network rollout.
- Platform knowledge on Juniper /Palo Alto/Aruba/ Fortigate/Cisco
- Solid understanding of IP/MPLS and Ethernet technologies.
- Experience in IP services (IPv4, IPv6, VPN, Multicast, QOS, SNMP, VOIP, SIP, etc).
- Experience in Wireless technologies (Wireless Lan topologies, 802.11 network security architecture & RF Domain)
- Proven experience in network management & Expert knowledge of network analysis tools.
- Knowledge on scripting languages like Perl/Python
- Worked on Linux extensively and understands all possible automations for the next Gen Enterprise network.
- Excellent understanding of software defined networking.
- hands-on experience with network operations
- BSc, BE in Electronics/Computer Science or equivalent required
- Executed large scale projects during his overall career.
- Should have strong business Acumen.
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Network automation, python, ansible, automation, Network Optimization, Network Operations
Responsibilities & requirements:
- Design, develop, and implement automation workflows to streamline network operations and processes, utilizing tools such as Ansible, Python.
- Collaborate with network engineering teams to identify opportunities for automation, ensuring alignment with business objectives and network architecture standards.
- Perform rigorous testing of automation scripts and tools in a lab environment before deployment in production to ensure reliability and efficiency.
- Manage and maintain the network automation infrastructure, including version control systems and automation servers, to ensure high availability and performance.
- Develop custom scripts to automate data collection for network performance monitoring and generate reports for analysis by the network operations team.
- Implement security practices within automation workflows to safeguard network data and infrastructure from unauthorized access or breaches.
- Troubleshoot and resolve issues within automated processes, applying debugging tools and techniques to ensure minimal disruption to network services.
- Document automation processes, including code comments, user manuals, and operational procedures, to ensure knowledge transfer and adherence to best practices within the team.
- Drive automation within the team and influence others .
- Ability to handle multiple complex tasks in a dynamic environment, with tight deadlines concurrently.
- Mentoring the next layer members in the team.
- Generate meaningful reports to improve the team’s performance.
- Automation of repetitive network tasks through efficient, reusable code minimizes human error and boosts operational efficiency
Bangalore,Karnataka
BE / B-Tech / BCA / MCA
4 to 6 Years
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