Lead Network Automation Engineer

SS&C is a leading provider of mission-critical, AI-powered technology and services empowering financial services and healthcare organizations to work smarter, faster, and securely. Founded in 1986, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has offices worldwide. More than 23,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest companies to small and mid-market firms, rely on SS&C for expertise, scale, and technology.

Job Description

The SS&C Technologies Networking & Security team is seeking Lead Software Engineers whose primary responsibilities are to develop applications and write code to automate network-related functions, gather telemetry data, develop monitoring and reporting related to network devices and behavior, as well as identify areas that can benefit from automation.
 
This position will allow for 100% remote work. As a member of the SS&C Networking & Security team, you will work with other members of the team geographically based throughout the globe whose goal is to support the network infrastructure across the enterprise.
 
Network Automation Engineers are top-level technical contributors with advanced industry knowledge and company-related expertise in automation development, programming, networking, and related hardware and software. Individuals must demonstrate a versatile skill set in a variety of technologies applicable to developing automation for networking infrastructure. This role will specifically focus on deploying automation and analytics to support SS&C’s network, and to develop custom tools to enable the SS&C organization to be more effective. The networking team supports a large and complex array of devices that require monitoring, telemetry, configuration management and custom analytics. The focus of this position is to create tools and write automation code that enable the SS&C organization to more effectively support the enterprise network, resolve problems faster, proactively resolve problems before they become critical, and reduce the amount of network impacting events.
 
Typical Day to Day:
Develop and manage internally developed tools for supporting and maintaining critical network infrastructure.
Work with the networking team to understand requirements for infrastructure automation.
Deliver automated troubleshooting, alerting, and tooling to resolve complex networking issues.
Gathering metrics, telemetry, and configuration data from a large variety of networking devices.
 
Minimum Experience:
Strong software development background with at least 3-years leading software development projects in the network engineering space.
Automation experience on multiple platforms (e.g. Cisco (Routing/Switching and ASA/FP), Juniper (MX/SRX), Palo Alto, VMware/NSX-T, Load Balancing/GSLB (F5), Arista switching, Aruba switching/wireless, Cumulus switching).
Experience developing custom API's
3+ years Python experience.
Working knowledge of Ansible, and other Python tools related to network engineering (e.g. Netmiko, PyATS, etc.)
Experience working with external REST API's
Strong knowledge of relational (e.g. SQL style database) and nonrelational database systems (e.g. Splunk/Elk)
Working knowledge with data dashboarding platform (e.g. Grafana)
3+ years network engineering experience (route/switch, strong BGP, firewalls). VXLAN/EVPN a plus.
Ability to work in a team environment (including, but not limited to sharing and reusing of existing code, strong documentation, and leveraging Git for code management).

Unless explicitly requested or approached by SS&C Technologies, Inc. or any of its affiliated companies, the company will not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services.

Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

SS&C Technologies is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment or employee on the basis of race, color, religious creed, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other classification protected by applicable discrimination laws.