Network Automation & Observability Engineer

Requirements:

• Strong network engineering expertise, including enterprise LAN/WAN, routing, IP networking, DNS, DHCP, and network management.
• Hands-on Python and scripting experience developing network automation, tools, or integrations.
• Strong REST API and systems integration skills, particularly across network management and enterprise platforms.
• Experience with network monitoring, management, and observability in complex enterprise environments.
• Practical experience with one or more of ThousandEyes, SolarWinds, Infoblox DDI, NetBrain, ServiceNow, Cisco Meraki, Cisco Catalyst Center, or Cisco ISE, and the ability to work across a wider tooling ecosystem.
• Experience creating network configuration automation and repeatable engineering workflows.
• Understanding of NetDevOps practices, including Git or other source control, CI/CD, testing, and software engineering methods applied to network infrastructure.
• Experience using network telemetry, operational data, APIs, and analytics to produce engineering and operational insights.
• Understanding of data engineering, including collecting, transforming, normalizing, and analyzing data from multiple systems.
• Understanding of AI and AIOps applications in network monitoring, observability, event management, and operational automation.
• Ability to troubleshoot across network, software, API, data, and tooling layers.
• Experience in large-scale, complex enterprise network environments.
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate with network engineers, software and platform engineers, architects, and operations teams.
• Desirable: Advanced administration or integration experience with ThousandEyes, SolarWinds, Infoblox DDI, or NetBrain; ServiceNow integrations for network events, incidents, or configuration workflows; infrastructure/network-as-code and automation frameworks; CI/CD pipeline development; network data, telemetry, analytics, or visualization; practical AI/ML or AIOps experience; cloud networking and cloud-native tools; Git-based collaboration and code review.
• Desirable certifications: Cisco CCNP or CCIE; Cisco DevNet/Automation Professional or Expert, or equivalent; Infoblox; SolarWinds or ThousandEyes; ServiceNow; or relevant Python, DevOps, cloud, or automation certifications.

Responsibilities:

• Engineer, operate, maintain, integrate, and improve network tooling platforms, including ThousandEyes, SolarWinds, Infoblox DDI, NetBrain, and ServiceNow.
• Build integrations among network platforms, devices, management tools, supporting platforms, and network services using REST APIs, Python, and scripting.
• Expand network observability using monitoring, telemetry, performance, and operational data.
• Design and implement network configuration automation and repeatable engineering workflows.
• Create reusable scripts, tools, and automation that reduce manual work and improve consistency.
• Apply NetDevOps and modern software delivery practices, including source control, versioning, testing, and CI/CD principles, to network engineering.
• Extract, transform, and analyze data from network platforms and APIs to generate actionable engineering and operational insights.
• Identify and apply AI and AIOps approaches to network operations, including event correlation, anomaly detection, automation, and the onboarding or integration of AI agents, agent skills, and agent workflows.
• Connect network tooling with operational workflows, including ServiceNow, to improve incident, event, and configuration processes.
• Diagnose complex issues across network infrastructure, tooling, APIs, integrations, automation, and data.
• Collaborate with network engineering, architecture, operations, and platform teams to turn requirements into scalable engineering solutions.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, integration designs, automation standards, and operational guidance.
• Help establish engineering standards and reusable automation patterns across the Network Engineering function.

Technologies:

• AI
• AI Agents
• API
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• Cisco
• DevOps
• Git
• Support
• LAN
• Network
• Python
• REST
• ServiceNow
• Security

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We are seeking an experienced Network Engineer focused on network tooling, automation, and observability to support the continued development and modernization of network engineering capabilities. This role works across network engineering and platform capabilities to strengthen observability, telemetry, automation, data quality, and operational insight, while supporting data-driven network operations and AIOps. The pay range is $47.00–$52.00 per hour. Our benefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance; a 401(k); a health savings account; short- and long-term disability insurance; life and AD&D insurance; paid sick leave where required by law; supplemental insurance; identity theft protection; pet insurance; wellness programs; an employee assistance program; and career development opportunities. Benefit eligibility and terms may vary by employment status, length of service, and work location, and plans may be changed in accordance with applicable laws. We are Cynet Systems Inc., a technology staffing and workforce solutions company founded in 2010 and headquartered in the Washington, DC metro area. We serve Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, and enterprise organizations across the United States and Canada, delivering talent solutions in IT, engineering, life sciences, clinical, and professional staffing. We are a certified Minority Business Enterprise and hold ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 27001, and SOC 2 Type II certifications.

last updated 43 week of 2026