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Insight Global Senior Network Automation Engineer in San Francisco, California
Job Description
Insight Global is seeking a Senior / Staff Network Automation Engineer to join a Network Engineering Core team focused on building scalable automation systems and tooling for deploying and operating network infrastructure at scale. This role will own automation across network data modeling, cutsheet generation, configuration automation, and device validation.
This position is central to enabling repeatable, fully automated datacenter deployments driven by a single source of truth. You’ll partner closely with cross‑functional teams to mature network models within DCIM tooling, build intent‑based cutsheet automation, develop configuration generation pipelines, and create validation tooling to ensure network infrastructure is production‑ready before customer workloads go live.
Responsibilities
• Build production grade network automation platforms
• Design and maintain network data models in DCIM/IPAM (e.g., NetBox) as the source of truth
• Automate cutsheets and deployment artifacts (cable matrices, port mappings, rack elevations)
• Develop config generation pipelines from templates and network models
• Build device validation and health check tooling across the deployment lifecycle
• Implement end to end Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP)
• Partner with infrastructure and deployment teams to remove manual processes
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Skills and Requirements
• Strong Go (production systems, not just scripting) + (Python R or C)
• 5+ years of network engineering experience with heavy automation focus
• Hands on experience with DCIM/IPAM driven automation
• Experience with templated config generation (Jinja, Ansible, similar)
• Solid understanding of datacenter networking (BGP, EVPN/VXLAN, TCP/IP)
• Ability to take ambiguous problems to production ready solutions • Experience building automation platforms or services (APIs, pipelines)
• Strong network data modeling mindset (“source of truth first”)
• Built end to end pipelines: model → artifacts → config → validation
• Experience in large scale, hyperscale, GPU, or HPC environments
• Familiarity with Terraform, SQL
• Experience with Arista, Juniper, NVIDIA/Mellanox, SONiC