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