Network Performance & Automation Engineer

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