Senior Network Automation Engineer

# Think Data Be Smart #

About Us: DataSmart is a Portuguese company, positioning itself as a consulting company of excellence, with over 20 years of existence. We are specialized in Technologies and Information Systems services, for the Portuguese and International markets. We pride ourselves on fostering a culture of involvement, experience, and excellence.

Join our team as a Senior Network Automation Engineer (Hybrid – Porto)

What You’ll Do:

• Design, develop, and maintain production-grade network automation frameworks using Ansible and Python
• Build end-to-end automation workflows for provisioning, configuration changes, validation, reporting, and rollback
• Develop reusable Ansible roles, collections, custom modules, plugins, and dynamic inventories
• Create Python libraries and CLI tools using Nornir, Netmiko, NAPALM, PyEZ, and network APIs
• Manage source-of-truth data using NetBox, schema-validated YAML/JSON, and Jinja2 templates
• Orchestrate workflows through Ansible Automation Platform (AAP), including pre-checks, approvals, deployment, post-checks, and automatic rollback
• Implement safe deployment mechanisms, configuration diffs, state snapshots, and drift detection
• Build and maintain GitLab CI/Jenkins pipelines for automated testing, validation, and deployment
• Integrate automation workflows with ITSM/JIRA, Infoblox, secrets management, and notification systems
• Develop automated compliance checks, remediation workflows, and infrastructure hardening processes
• Implement structured logging, audit trails, compliance reporting, and Grafana/Coralogix dashboards
• Automate configuration backups, recovery procedures, and high-availability validation
• Support multi-vendor network environments, including Juniper, Arista, Cisco, Fortinet, and Check Point
• Troubleshoot network and automation issues, ensuring reliable and secure infrastructure operations.

Qualifications:

• Strong hands-on experience designing and building complete network automation frameworks using Ansible and Python
• Proven ability to develop reusable, scalable, production-grade automation solutions rather than standalone scripts
• Advanced knowledge of Ansible roles, collections, inventories, custom modules, plugins, and Ansible Automation Platform (AAP)
• Strong Python development skills, including libraries, CLI tools, APIs, error handling, logging, and automated testing
• Experience with Nornir, Netmiko, NAPALM, PyEZ, NETCONF, RESTCONF, gNMI, or equivalent network automation tools
• Experience with NetBox, Jinja2, YAML/JSON schemas, and dynamic inventory management
• Solid knowledge of GitLab CI/Jenkins, Git workflows, version control, and CI/CD practices
• Experience with pytest, Molecule, ansible-lint, yamllint, ruff, mypy, or equivalent testing and code-quality tools
• Experience implementing automated validation, configuration rollback, drift detection, and compliance checks
• Knowledge of network infrastructure APIs and integrations with ITSM/JIRA, Infoblox, and secrets management solutions
• Strong understanding of multi-vendor network environments, particularly Juniper, Arista, Cisco, Fortinet, and Check Point
• Solid networking knowledge, including BGP, OSPF, VLANs, STP, LACP, EVPN, and multicast fundamentals
• Experience with firewall policy management, network segmentation, security hardening, and configuration management
• Strong troubleshooting skills, with the ability to distinguish automation failures from underlying network issues
• Ability to work autonomously, take ownership of technical solutions, and collaborate effectively with infrastructure and security teams

At DataSmart, you will have the opportunity to integrate into a solid company and participate in projects of high recognition, nationally and internationally, with an appealing technological environment and career progression.

Excellence in the way to the future!

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