Network Automation Specialist - L3

About Global Relay

For over 25 years, Global Relay has set the standard in enterprise information archiving with industry-leading cloud archiving, surveillance, eDiscovery, and analytics solutions.

We securely capture and preserve the communications data of the world’s most highly regulated firms, giving them greater visibility and control over their information and ensuring compliance with stringent regulations.

Though we offer competitive compensation and benefits and all the other perks one would expect from an established company, we are not your typical technology company. Global Relay is a career-building company. A place for big ideas. New challenges. Groundbreaking innovation. It’s a place where you can genuinely make an impact – and be recognized for it.

We believe great businesses thrive on diversity, inclusion, and the contributions of all employees. To that end, we recruit candidates from different backgrounds and foster a work environment that encourages employees to collaborate and learn from each other, completely free of barriers.

The Network Automation Specialist – L3 is primarily responsible for the planning and development of a comprehensive automation framework for network and firewall infrastructure. They will design and build orchestration tools for configuration and testing as well as tools for network monitoring and visibility by utilizing sflow, syslog, snmp and scripting.

• Design, deploy, and support automation and scripting solutions to drive new capabilities, visibility, and efficiency, for network and firewall appliances.
• Build Ansible code for configuring, monitoring, and analyzing network and firewall appliances using but not limited to RESTful APIs.
• Build Python provisioning workflows such as Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP), Python Jinja2 template rendering, Postgre
  
  SQL inventory and automated device onboarding.
• Design and develop Flask‑based self‑service portals and configuration management platforms exposing JSON REST APIs that enable network operations teams to safely configure, provision, and manage network devices through intuitive web interfaces.
• Develop troubleshooting and debugging code to identify problems.
• Explore different network operations activities and identify use‑cases for automation.
• Create meaningful reports and graphs from collected netflow, sflow, J‑flow, or IPFIX records.
• Setup logging and monitoring for network devices and create useful dashboards and graphs.
• Participate in the creation of documentation including runbooks, how‑to user guides & technical how‑to support guides, and Method of Procedures (MoP).

• Minimum of 5+ years’ experience in a Network Automation capacity with strong coding skills in Python, JavaScript and Bash.
• Strong experience implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and modern automation workflows, including CI/CD pipelines, Git‑based source control, RESTful APIs, and configuration management systems.
• Proficient in Python (including libraries such as Netmiko, Paramiko and Net Conf/RESTCONF), with hands‑on experience building JSON‑based automation workflows and REST APIs for interface/VLAN provisioning, pre‑deployment validation, real‑time progress tracking, robust error handling, and full Postgre
  
  SQL audit trails.
• Experience integrating secret management systems (Secret Server, Open Bao, or similar vault solutions) with Python automation scripts for secure credential retrieval, rotation, and runtime access management.
• Experienced in optimizing Python Flask + Postgre
  
  SQL applications for network automation, including efficient device inventory schemas, execution logging, and sFlow analytics persistence.
• Experienced in Jinja2 template‑based configuration generation with Postgre
  
  SQL‑backed inventory and automated validation workflows for network device configuration.
• Experienced in integrating Telegraf sFlow data into Python workflows for pre/post‑change traffic validation and capacity‑aware provisioning decisions.
• Experience with complex enterprise network architecture planning, design, and implementation.
• Solid knowledge and experience in deploying and managing Linux systems.
• Experience with Open Source…