Senior Network Automation Engineer

Your New Role

The Sr. Network Reliability and Automation Engineer will work with the Operations and Engineering Teams on the support and strategic improvement of the network platform using programming and automation tools to streamline network operation, supporting Leavesden and Burbank Studios. The individual will evaluate processes regularly to ensure expected outcomes, identifying service improvements and documenting them to help ensure standards and processes are followed.

Your Role Accountabilities

• Effectively develop and support all WBD network automation and scripting infrastructure and services 24/7 by responding to and resolving all requests and trouble tickets within the stipulated SLA time
• Clearly understand network automation needs across the global network team by partnering with team members to identify new automation capabilities and areas for process improvement
• Ability to prioritize work based on business criticalities and be flexible to work on ad hoc tasks as assigned by the manager
• Fully understand and adhere to the team's network standards and procedures both in technical and functional areas
• Maintain positive relationships with all user communities, peers and the management team

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems or a related field preferred
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in DevOps, network automation engineering in an enterprise network production environment
• Additional years of experience in network engineering, network operations, systems engineering or similar roles preferred
• Intermediate knowledge and experience using orchestration tools such as Ansible, Puppet, Terraform, Arista Cloud Vision and/or GitHub Actions to write IaC
• Modern scripting skills required — Python preferred
• Programming and web development experience preferred (HTML, C++, etc.)
• Intermediate knowledge of Linux preferred
• Strong execution, follow-through, troubleshooting, analytical and problem-solving skills
• Willingness to work a flexible schedule and participate in an on-call rotation for out-of-hours support
• Must have the legal right to work in the United States