Network Automation Lead - Hosting
Hamilton Barnes · hamilton-barnes.com
San Francisco CountyLead / Manager
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The job in short
Network automation leadership.
PythonTerraformDevOpsNetworking
Details
- Found
- 9 d ago · posted 2026-10-17
- Location as listed
- San Francisco County, California, United States
- Role
- DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer
- Source
- The company’s own careers site
Full description
Are you looking for an exciting new opportunity?
Join a stealth-mode hyperscale data center startup on a mission to deploy 300MW of capacity by 2026. This forward-thinking company is building the automation backbone that will power a global, software-defined infrastructure from day one. It’s an opportunity to design, code, and operate networks like a product, applying DevOps principles to networking at hyperscale and shaping the foundation of next-generation data infrastructure
If you would like to learn more about this opportunity, feel free to reach out and apply today!
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Responsibilities:
• Design, build, and maintain network-as-code pipelines enabling continuous integration/delivery, zero-touch provisioning, and golden configuration management.
• Develop observability, telemetry, and assurance frameworks to support large-scale network operations (1k+ devices).
• Collaborate with platform, systems, and security teams to integrate automation and telemetry across compute, storage, and fabric layers.
• Define best practices for testing, validation, and rollout of network changes using GitOps principles.
• Mentor engineers and help drive a culture of automation, reliability, and speed across the infrastructure organisation.
Skills/Must have:
• Proven experience in network automation and infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Ansible, Python, Terraform, GitLab CI/CD).
• Deep understanding of routing/switching protocols and data center network design (EVPN/VXLAN, BGP, MPLS).
• Experience implementing ZTP, golden configs, and automated network validation/testing.
• Strong grasp of telemetry frameworks and observability tooling (e.g., gNMI, OpenConfig, Prometheus, Grafana).
• Hands-on experience with multi-vendor environments (Cisco, Juniper, Arista, Nokia, etc.).
• Comfortable working in fast-paced, high-autonomy startup environments.
Benefits:
• Equity
• Sign-on bonus
• Performance-based bonus
• 401K
Salary:
• Open budget
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