10th July, 2026Our client is looking for a remote
Network Automation and DevOps Architect to join their team!
This is a remote/full-time/6-8 month contract positionSalary based on experience: $80-$90/HRRole OverviewSomeone who can lead a team & project and put together an HLD. In this case, they won't have any direct reports.
- The Network Automation and DevOps Architect is responsible for designing, building, and guiding the implementation of scalable automation platforms that support modern network operations.
- This role combines network engineering expertise, software development practices, DevOps principles, and infrastructure architecture to help organizations automate, standardize, and improve how they design, deploy, operate, and govern network infrastructure.
- This architect will play a key role in defining automation platform patterns, integrating systems of record and sources of truth, building reusable automation workflows, and enabling teams to adopt infrastructure-as-code practices.
- The role is especially focused on platform infrastructure, including Nautobot, CI/CD pipelines, automation runners, observability, data integrations, and supporting services required to operate a reliable network automation ecosystem.
- The ideal candidate has deep experience with network automation, strong familiarity with DevOps practices, and the ability to translate business and operational requirements into practical platform designs.
Key Responsibilities - Design and implement network automation platforms that support source of truth, configuration management, compliance, lifecycle management, observability, and operational workflows.
- Architect and deploy Nautobot-based solutions, including core data models, apps, plugins, integrations, jobs, APIs, and source-of-truth workflows.
- Develop platform architecture patterns for automation environments, including application hosting, CI/CD pipelines, secrets management, artifact repositories, execution environments, container platforms, and observability.
- Integrate Nautobot and other automation platforms with systems such as ServiceNow, Ansible Automation Platform, Git, CI/CD tools, IPAM/DDI, monitoring systems, cloud platforms, and network controllers.
- Define and implement infrastructure-as-code and automation standards using tools such as Python, Ansible, Terraform, Git, Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD platforms.
- Create reusable automation frameworks, modules, playbooks, pipelines, and reference architectures that improve delivery consistency and operational maturity.
- Lead technical discovery sessions to understand network operations processes, existing tooling, data sources, platform requirements, security constraints, and integration needs.
- Translate customer or business requirements into technical architecture, implementation plans, platform designs, and operational runbooks.
- Guide teams on automation best practices, including version control, testing, validation, peer review, release management, environment promotion, and rollback strategies.
- Support the development of data models and source-of-truth strategies for network inventory, circuits, IP addressing, VLANs, device lifecycle, configuration state, and operational metadata.
- Design secure and resilient platform infrastructure, including authentication, authorization, role-based access control, secrets handling, backup and recovery, high availability, logging, monitoring, and upgrade strategies.
- Collaborate with network engineers, software developers, DevOps engineers, product owners, project managers, and business stakeholders to deliver automation outcomes.
- Provide technical leadership during implementation, troubleshooting, platform migrations, upgrades, integrations, and production readiness activities.
- Document architecture decisions, design patterns, integration flows, operational processes, and platform support requirements.
- Mentor engineers and delivery teams in network automation, DevOps practices, Nautobot solution design, and platform engineering principles.
Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S.
