Senior Network Automation Engineer
Wells Fargo
- Location
- Bengaluru South, Karnataka, India
- Job type
- Full-time
Required skills
- Python
- Agile
- Ansible
- automation solutions
- Backbone
- BGP
- change management
- compliance
- cross-functionally
- GitHub
- Jira
- network engineer
- network security
- OSPF
- Service Level Agreements
- YAML
- REST APIs
About the role
Wells Fargo
Website:
wellsfargo.com
Job details:
About This Role
- Wells Fargo is seeking Senior Network Engineer who is deeply passionate about automation and modern deployment practices.
- This role is critical in driving an automation-first culture across the organization, with a strong focus on network automation within data center environments.
- The ideal candidate will contribute to building scalable, programmable infrastructure that supports rapid deployment, configuration consistency, and operational efficiency.
- A key part of the role involves implementing Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP) and other automation frameworks to streamline data center buildouts and lifecycle management.
- By leveraging automation, the engineer will help accelerate project timelines, reduce manual intervention, and minimize risk. This position is ideal for someone who thrives in fast-paced environments and is committed to transforming legacy processes into intelligent, automated workflows.
In This Role, You Will
- Lead or participate in implementing network security policies across routers and firewalls
- Manage production networks including Internet Protocol backbone, data centers and edge pops across the globe
- Ensure the continuous availability of all data network services
- Identify gaps, risks and issues and navigate organizational structure to resolve them
- Perform quarterly proactive network testing to ensure proper functioning and reliability of the network
- Investigate and remediate network capacity related issues
- Apply knowledge of security and regulatory policies to design and implement foolproof secured network solutions
- Provide resolution information and work with other teams to complete impact analysis
- Deliver comprehensive and maintenance plans for change management review and approval
- Mentor and train network operations team in the installation, configuration, and maintenance
- Partner cross-functionally with other Product Infrastructure teams in order to continuously improve and apply standards and policies relevant to operational excellence
Job Expectation
- Lead the review, resolution, and implementation of complex technical issues related to large-scale network infrastructure, automation platforms, and data systems.
- Design and implement scalable network automation solutions using tools like Nautobot, Ansible, and Python, ensuring alignment with business and operational goals.
- Develop and integrate APIs to automate network provisioning, configuration, monitoring, and troubleshooting across multi-vendor environments.
- Create and utilize diagnostic, simulation, and orchestration tools to maintain, troubleshoot, and restore service or data to network systems.
- Evaluate and optimize automation workflows, including parsing queries, extracting data, and performing limited programming to fine-tune supported systems.
- Research performance trends and recommend process improvements to enhance automation efficiency, reliability, and scalability.
- Perform complex migrations, upgrades, installations, and configurations of network automation platforms and supporting infrastructure.
- Make strategic decisions in security and compliance to design and implement robust, secure, and auditable network automation solutions.
- Assess changes for risk to production systems, ensuring quality, security, and compliance requirements are met across supported areas.
- Identify gaps in current network and automation processes, recommending changes to support Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and operational excellence.
- Collaborate and consult with cross-functional teams, including network engineers, software developers, and managers, to resolve issues and achieve automation goals.
Required Qualifications
- 4+ years of Network Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
Additional Required Skills
- Develop Automation scripts using Python, Ansible. YAML
- Leverage Python REST APIs to develop Zero Touch provisioning
- Have used Ansible Tower, GitHub, Gi Actions, CI/CD-tools
- Exposure to Data Center/Service provider networking Expertise in Network Protocols- OSPF BGP, MPLS, L3VPN, EVPN, VxLAN Knowledge on Cloud Networking would be a plus.
- Have worked in /Agile methodologies and tools Serum and JIRA
- Communicate and help grow an automation community across the organization.
- Mentor and upskill our juniors and interns. provide opportunities for growth
- Good Social, Oral and Written communications skills are preferred
Reference Number
R-510405
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