Network Automation Engineer

Company: Salesforce.com, Inc
Location: Dallas
Posted on: November 22, 2021

Job Description:

_To get the best candidate experience, please consider applying for a maximum of 3 roles within 12 months to ensure you are not duplicating efforts._**Job Category**Products and Technology**Job Details**The successful candidate will join the Network Automation team that is part of the Platform Engineering organization within Business Technology. The Network Automation Engineer position is responsible for maintaining and developing the automation capabilities necessary to run corporate network services at scale and with a high degree of consistency.To be successful in this position, you must be a self-starter with the ability to take ownership of tasks, work under pressure, and balance multiple assignments simultaneously while maintaining a positive outlook. You must possess excellent verbal and written documentation skills and collaborate effectively with local and remote team members.**Responsibilities:**+ Maintain and extend the capabilities of the network automation platform.+ Provide escalation support for tools and technologies used for delivering the capabilities; you may be asked to participate in the on-call rotation in the future.+ Develop custom code integrating components of the platform and other infrastructure services; you may be asked to peer review the code and perform quality assurance tasks.+ Follow security requirements around patching, role-based access control, and secure software development lifecycle.+ Write process and technical documentation, and create diagrams. Provide training to other network domain teams for the adoption of automation capabilities.+ Collaborate with the key stakeholders (Service Managers, Product Owners, Architects, Network Engineering, and Site Reliability) to gather and develop requirements; participate in office hours and other meetings.+ Participate in the team discussions and provide feedback, and share the experience.**Qualifications:**+ 3 to 5 years of IT work experience, with at least 2 years of experience writing code, preferably to support the network domain.+ Must be results-oriented and have strong verbal and written communication skills, i.e., communicate complex ideas effectively.+ Ability to break down a manual process into an automated workflow. Knowledge of StackStorm, NetBox, etc., will be a plus.+ Proven ability in Bash and Python 3; especially program comprehension.+ Working knowledge of Git, GitHub flow, and CI/CD concepts.+ Understanding of REST-based API design principles and best practices.+ Experience operating a network; familiarity with fundamentals of subnetting, routing, switching, data flows, etc.+ Understand Linux systems and comfortable working with AWS public cloud and cloud-native technologies like containers and serverless; knowledge of Terraform is preferred.+ Exposure to processes like incident management, change management, and problem management.**This role is Office-Flex (-1-3 days/wk in office) or Fully Remote****Accommodations**If you require assistance due to a disability applying for open positions please submit a request via this Accommodations Request Form (https://careers.mail.salesforce.com/accommodations-request-form) .**Posting Statement**At Salesforce we believe that the business of business is to improve the state of our world. 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