Principal Network Automation Developer

United States
Broomfield, CO, United States
Burlington, MA, United States

• Job Identification 327830
• Job Category Product Development
• Posting Date 02/20/2026, 08:39 PM
• Job Type Regular Employee
• Does this position require a security clearance? Yes
• Years 3 to 5+ years
• Applicants Less than 10 applicants
• Additional Info Visa / work permit sponsorship is not available for this position
• Applicants are required to read, write, and speak the following languages English

Who We Are

• Standardization and automation is the only way to efficiently scale cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings to meet the growing needs of our customers. Codified infrastructure ensures adherence to standards, provides insight into drift detection, and guarantees consistent infrastructure and application delivery. The Platform Development and Automation Engineering team’s Infrastructure-as-Code platforms empower our stakeholders to provision and maintain consistent environments across different implementations and lifecycle stages.
  
  Our frameworks enable high-velocity configuration changes at cloud scale while ensuring a verifiable, repeatable, and dependable infrastructure fleet.
• We develop tools and systems that either directly support cloud infrastructure or empower operational teams to build and manage it. We are responsible for understanding business goals, identifying how software supports achieving them, and implementing best-of-breed solutions.
• We focus on core principles of software development including design patterns, maintainability, reliability, and scalability. Regardless of job title or specialization, we are all software engineers first.

Skills You Have

Education and Work Experience

This position requires you to be eligible to receive a federal security clearance which requires you to be aUS Citizen.

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience in a relevant field
• Extensive experience in network automation (cloud infrastructure and/or on-premise) using Infrastructure-as-Code
• Extensive experience in network development or application automation
• Experience developing within a continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD) pipeline
• Experience with orchestration engines
• Track record of delivering assigned projects on time, using Agile and Dev Ops best practices

Technical Qualifications

• Advanced Python development skills
• Advanced skills in network device or cloud network configuration with a focus on automation
• Experience with network device or operating system scripting or automation languages
• Proficiency with data aggregation and visualization tools such as Open Search and Grafana
• Proficiency with utilizing cloud native network technologies such as Virtual Cloud Networks and Network Security Groups
• A strong understanding of network protocols (e.g., TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF)
• Experience with operations and support processes and tools such as:
  Incident Management, Change Management, Ticketing Systems (JIRA, Service Desk), Service Level Agreements, Escalation processes

Soft Skills

• Proactive self-starter who thrives on collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive innovative new product development
• Strong analytical, planning, and organizational skills with an ability to manage competing demands
• Ability to create troubleshooting guidelines and workflow instructions for others to follow
• Ability to work independently, defining and managing one’s own work while still providing transparency and accountability to management and our stakeholders
• Respect for and willingness to work with individuals and teams located across multiple geographic locations and levels of the organization
• Curiosity and a passion for learning
• Aptitude for suggesting process improvements

You are the Perfect Candidate if…

• Experience developing network automation systems within large-scale SaaS environments
• Proficiency in deploying and managing cloud network infrastructure using Infrastructure-as-Code
• A background in standardizing processes across multi-vendor, multi-cloud, and heterogeneous environments
• Hands‑on experience developing complete applications in Python
• Expertise with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
• Experience setting…