JD: Network Performance & Automation Engineer

Job Title Performance & Automation Engineer

Experience 6–12+ Years

Job Summary

We are seeking a Network Performance & Automation Engineer responsible for monitoring, analyzing, automating, and improving enterprise network performance across WAN, SD-WAN, campus, data center, cloud, and security environments. The role focuses on proactive performance engineering, telemetry-driven insights, automation-led troubleshooting, and operational efficiency improvements.

Key Responsibilities

Performance Engineering

Analyze network performance across latency, jitter, packet loss, throughput, bandwidth utilization, application response time, and device health
Identify bottlenecks across WAN, SD-WAN overlays, firewalls, load balancers, wireless, LAN, and cloud connectivity paths
Create performance baselines, trend reports, capacity forecasts, and service improvement recommendations

Automation & Tooling

Develop automation scripts and workflows for network health checks, configuration validation, incident triage, reporting, and remediation support
Integrate tools using APIs across monitoring, observability, ITSM, CMDB, SD-WAN, firewall, and cloud platforms
Build reusable dashboards, reports, runbooks, and self-service automation capabilities for operations teams

Monitoring, Telemetry & Observability

Work with SNMP, NetFlow/IPFIX, syslog, streaming telemetry, synthetic testing, logs, events, and packet capture data
Configure and enhance monitoring thresholds, alerts, dashboards, and correlation rules to reduce noise and improve incident detection
Support root cause analysis using telemetry, flow analysis, path visibility, device metrics, and application dependency insights

Operational Improvement

Drive automation-led reduction of manual effort, faster incident resolution, and improved service availability
Collaborate with network, security, application, cloud, and service desk teams to improve end-to-end service performance
Document standard operating procedures, troubleshooting playbooks, and performance improvement actions

Required Skills

Strong understanding of enterprise networking, routing, switching, SD-WAN, firewalls, load balancers, and cloud connectivity
Hands-on scripting experience with Python, Ansible, REST APIs, JSON, YAML, and automation frameworks
Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as SolarWinds, ThousandEyes, Cisco DNA Center, vManage, Splunk, Grafana, ELK, AppDynamics, or similar platforms
Ability to perform packet analysis, flow analysis, performance troubleshooting, and RCA documentation

Good to Have

Experience with AIOps, event correlation, anomaly detection, predictive analytics, and closed-loop automation
Knowledge of ITSM workflows, ServiceNow integration, CMDB data models, and incident/problem management processes
Exposure to cloud platforms, SASE/SSE, Zscaler, Prisma Access, Fortinet, Cisco, Palo Alto, F5, and multi-vendor network environments

Certifications (Preferred)

CCNP Enterprise / CCNP Security
Python / Ansible / DevNet Associate or Professional
Monitoring, observability, cloud, or ITIL certifications

Skills: networking,sd wan,python,routing,ansible,load balancer,json,switching