Network Automation Lead - Hosting

Are you looking for an exciting new opportunity? 

Join a stealth-mode hyperscale data center startup on a mission to deploy 300MW of capacity by 2026. This forward-thinking company is building the automation backbone that will power a global, software-defined infrastructure from day one. It’s an opportunity to design, code, and operate networks like a product, applying DevOps principles to networking at hyperscale and shaping the foundation of next-generation data infrastructure

If you would like to learn more about this opportunity, feel free to reach out and apply today!

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Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain network-as-code pipelines enabling continuous integration/delivery, zero-touch provisioning, and golden configuration management.
• Develop observability, telemetry, and assurance frameworks to support large-scale network operations (1k+ devices).
• Collaborate with platform, systems, and security teams to integrate automation and telemetry across compute, storage, and fabric layers.
• Define best practices for testing, validation, and rollout of network changes using GitOps principles.
• Mentor engineers and help drive a culture of automation, reliability, and speed across the infrastructure organisation.

Skills/Must have:

• Proven experience in network automation and infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Ansible, Python, Terraform, GitLab CI/CD).
• Deep understanding of routing/switching protocols and data center network design (EVPN/VXLAN, BGP, MPLS).
• Experience implementing ZTP, golden configs, and automated network validation/testing.
• Strong grasp of telemetry frameworks and observability tooling (e.g., gNMI, OpenConfig, Prometheus, Grafana).
• Hands-on experience with multi-vendor environments (Cisco, Juniper, Arista, Nokia, etc.).
• Comfortable working in fast-paced, high-autonomy startup environments.

Benefits:

• Equity
• Sign-on bonus
• Performance-based bonus
• 401K

Salary:

• Open budget