Vast
Senior Network Automation Engineer
$131K–$186K
Long Beach, California, United States · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 20, 2026
- Experience
- 7–10 years of network engineering, including at least 4+ years dedicated to network automation and NetDevOps.
About the job
Modernize Vast’s data center and campus networks by building vendor-agnostic automation for EVPN-VXLAN fabrics and integrating AI-assisted engineering workflows.
What you'll do
- Build automation pipelines for Arista and Juniper network fabrics, and maintain reusable vendor-agnostic data models and SSoT schemas.
- Implement network CI/CD validation, dry-run testing, and AI-assisted workflows for automation, troubleshooting, and telemetry queries.
- Set automation coding standards and AI guardrails, and mentor junior network developers.
What they ask for
- 7–10 years of network engineering experience, including at least 4+ years in network automation and NetDevOps.
- Expertise in underlay routing (eBGP, OSPF) and EVPN-VXLAN overlay design for enterprise data centers and campus networks.
- Programmatic engineering experience with Arista EOS and Juniper Junos.
- Proficiency in Python or Go, practical experience with AI code assistants or agentic frameworks, and production-tested Terraform, Ansible, and GitOps experience.
Nice to have
- Arista ACE, Juniper JNCIE, Cisco CCIE, or DevNet Professional/Expert certifications.
- Experience with gNMI or gRPC telemetry, and Docker or Kubernetes.
Pay
$131,000 — $186,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
EVPN-VXLAN, Arista EOS, Juniper Junos, Python, Go, Terraform, Ansible, GitLab CI/GitHub Actions
AI focus
Use AI code assistants, agentic code generation, and Model Context Protocol interfaces to create and test scripts, automate validation, generate playbooks, query telemetry, and troubleshoot; establish guardrails for AI-generated logic.
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