Technical Network Automation Engineer
On-sitePetaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia
Job Summary
Design and implement initial network automation playbooks, scripts, and templates for standard changes, provisioning, and configuration compliance across IT and OT networks. Select and configure core toolchain components including Git, CI/CD pipelines, Ansible, and Terraform while establishing network monitoring, logging, and alerting dashboards. Define standard operating procedures and runbooks for automation usage, then support incident management by providing diagnostics scripts and data exports to accelerate root cause analysis. This hands-on DevOps role requires 5–7 years of network engineering experience, strong Python and shell scripting skills, and proficiency in IaC stacks, with a focus on building the first generation of code-driven network practices for our expanding data centre in PJ.
Required Qualifications
- Switching, routing, firewalls, and VPN in data centre or enterprise networks, including HA and basic segmentation designs
- Strong practical Python and shell scripting skills to build automation, small tools, and integrations without existing frameworks
- Hands on experience setting up at least one network automation/IaC stack (e.g. Ansible + Git + CI, or Terraform based workflows) from an early stage starting point
- Configuration and onboarding devices into monitoring/logging platforms (e.g. SolarWinds/PRTG, Prometheus/Grafana, Elastic/Splunk), define alert rules, and build useful dashboards
- Designing simple but robust automation patterns and coding standards suitable for use by operations engineers (idempotent changes, rollbacks, safety checks)
- 5–7 years of experience in network engineering/operations, including hands on responsibility for building or heavily extending automation and monitoring
- Proven experience in - data centre or mission critical environments, preferably with ownership of tooling/automation components
- CCNA (or equivalent such as JNCIA, Arista associate level)
- Automation/DevOps: Cisco DevNet Associate/Professional, Terraform Associate, Red Hat Ansible, or equivalent automation oriented certification
Desired Qualifications
- Vendor firewall certification or any OT/ICS security related credential, or demonstrable project experience in OT networks
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