The Opportunity Hyatt Hotels Corporation seeks an enthusiastic Network DevOps Engineer to join our Global Network Engineering and Operations team. In this role, you will be collaborating closely with the broader infrastructure team, where you'll be instrumental in continuing to make Hyatt a leading hospitality company. You will be part of a team that is passionate about our purpose, committed to nurturing curiosity and new skills, and building connections across the organization with colleagues, customers, and guests.
The Role You will build, operate, and scale automated, testable, and auditable network infrastructure using software engineering practices.
Key responsibilities include:
- Design, develop, and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) to provision and manage network devices, services, and configurations.
- Build and own GitLab CI/CD pipelines for network automation, validation, and deployment.
- Develop automation and orchestration tooling using Python, Ansible, and Terraform.
- Implement automated testing (unit, integration, and device/system-level) for network changes - e.g., PyATS or equivalent.
- Create and maintain reusable automation libraries, templates, and modules for multi-vendor environments.
- Integrate network automation with inventory/CMDB systems (e.g., ServiceNow), monitoring, and ITSM.
- Troubleshoot production network and automation issues; perform root cause analysis and corrective automation.
- Author and maintain runbooks, design docs, and change control artifacts that support safe, auditable deployments.
- Participate in cross-functional projects: Network modernization, SD-WAN rollouts, PCI and security controls, site onboarding.
- Coach and mentor other engineers on automation best practices, testing, and Git-based workflows.
Note: This list highlights core responsibilities and special initiatives; it is representative, not exhaustive.