Orion Innovation is a premier, award-winning, global business and technology services firm. Orion delivers game-changing business transformation and product development rooted in digital strategy, experience design, and engineering, with a unique combination of agility, scale, and maturity. We work with a wide range of clients across many industries including financial services, professional services, telecommunications and media, consumer products, automotive, industrial automation, professional sports and entertainment, life sciences, ecommerce, and education.
Our Partner
Our partner is a fast-growing software company that builds networks like clouds. It offers communications service providers and cloud providers a radical new way to build networks, detaching network growth from network cost and increasing network profitability. Our partner’s Network Cloud solution uniquely supports the complete virtualization of network and compute resources, enabling communication service providers and cloud providers to meet increasing service demands much more efficiently than with today’s monolithic routers. Their software runs over standard white-box hardware and can easily scale network capacity by adding additional white boxes into physical network clusters. This unique disaggregated network model enables the physical infrastructure to operate as a shared resource that supports multiple networks and services. This unique network design also allows faster service innovation at the network edge, supporting multiple service payloads, including latency-sensitive ones, over a single physical network edge.
Role Overview
We are looking for the best of the best talent that is capable of dreaming out of the box and can execute on the dream and turn it into real value for our customers. Our automation system is one of the most important to our partner’s mission.
Responsibilities
- Automate deployment, monitoring, and configuration management for complex networked systems.
- Implement infrastructure-as-code (IaC) principles to streamline system automation.
- Collaborate with networking teams to enhance automation in switching, routing, security, and virtualization.
- Troubleshoot and optimize network configurations through automation tools and scripting.
- Work in a CI/CD environment, integrating automation into continuous deployment pipelines.
- Develop and maintain APIs, microservices, and automation tools for system reliability.
- Implement and enhance security best practices in automated systems.
Requirements
Must have:
- BSc/MSc in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent.
- 5+ years of relevant experience in the networking field.
- 3+ years of Python development experience.
- Networking Fundamentals:
- Solid understanding of OSI and TCP/IP models.
- IP addressing and subnetting (CIDR, VLSM).
- Ethernet switching and VLANs (802.1Q, LACP).
- IP routing fundamentals (static vs dynamic, convergence).
- Routing, MPLS & Segment Routing:
- BGP fundamentals (iBGP/eBGP, path attributes, best-path selection).
- OSPF fundamentals (areas, adjacencies, LSAs).
- Basic IS-IS concepts (L1/L2, areas).
- MPLS fundamentals (labels, LDP, L3VPN concepts).
- Basic understanding of EVPN and VPWS.
- Basic understanding of Segment Routing (SR-MPLS) and SRv6 concepts (SIDs, paths, steering).
- Network Automation Interfaces:
- Experience with programmatic network interfaces (NETCONF, gNMI, and/or vendor APIs).
- Systems & Linux
- Linux command-line basics and system troubleshooting.
- Docker fundamentals (containers, images, basic networking).
- Automation & Python:
- Strong Python skills for automation.
- Experience with structured data (JSON, YAML, XML).
- Working knowledge of object-oriented concepts (inheritance, composition).
- Practical understanding of mixins, super(), and Method Resolution Order (MRO).
- Experience using and extending versioned automation libraries.
- Pytest-Based Automation:
- Strong experience with pytest.
- Fixture usage and scope management (function/class/module/session).
- Parameterization, including indirect parametrization (request.param).
- Dynamic fixture selection and object construction.
- Reliable setup/teardown and test state management.
- Test Reliability & Abstractions:
- Managing stateful resources and preventing test leakage.
- Using fixtures and/or context managers for transactional changes.
- Familiarity with wrapper abstractions (retry, wait/polling helpers).
- Awareness of parallel execution and resource contention issues.
- Traffic Validation & Observability:
- Basic experience validating forwarding behavior using traffic generators or software-based tools (e.g., Ixia, Spirent, TRex, Scapy).
- Ability to analyze logs and telemetry data (device logs, syslog, counters) as part of automated testing and troubleshooting.
- Security & Access Control:
- Basic understanding of network access and authentication mechanisms (AAA, TACACS+, RADIUS).
- Code Quality:
- Writing clean, maintainable automation code.
- Experience working in shared codebases with version control.
Nice to have:
- AI-Assisted Automation:
- Experience using AI tools to support automation development and troubleshooting.
- Ability to clearly frame problems and ask precise questions.
- Understanding AI limitations and the need to validate AI-generated output.
- Comfort using AI as an assistive tool, not a runtime decision-maker.
Reasons to Work with Us
- Competitive financial conditions.
- Opportunity to work on internationally recognized projects.
- Flexible schedule and a hybrid work model, prioritizing remote work as much as possible to support work-life balance.
- An exciting career path within a friendly, dynamic, and growing organization.
- Professional development opportunities in a multicultural environment.
- Private medical coverage with Medlife or Regina Maria.
- Meal vouchers.
- Gift vouchers for special occasions such as birthdays, weddings, or childbirth.
- Wellbeing programs, including sick days, 7Card subscriptions, and relaxation facilities in the office.
- Team-building events and other social experiences.
- Budget allocated for certifications relevant to your project.
- Workshops, internal training sessions, and knowledge-sharing opportunities.
- Convenient city-center office location.
- Shared parking spaces.
As a global digital transformation company, Orion values creating a productive, diverse work environment. We are committed to maintaining a positive work environment where our people value traits that make each one of us different from one another. We all bring a diverse set of perspectives, work and life experiences, and our differences make us more valuable both internally and for our clients.
Orion is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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Skills Required
- BSc/MSc in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent
- 5+ years of relevant experience in networking
- Core Networking Fundamentals knowledge
- Routing Protocols expertise
- Experience with MPLS & Layer 2 Services
- Network Automation & Orchestration skills
- System Administration & Linux knowledge
- Security & Best Practices knowledge
- Troubleshooting & Design Skills
- +3 years of Python development experience
- Experience with Git version control
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
Orion Innovation Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Orion highlights health and well-being initiatives such as fitness, mindfulness, and flexibility/remote options, reinforced by recognition like Cigna’s Healthy Workforce Designation. Flexibility via hybrid/remote work is positioned as a consistent part of the overall rewards experience.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is characterized as moderately satisfactory overall, with pockets where compensation is viewed as fair, particularly for some software engineering and certain U.S. roles. Public snapshots also indicate that competitiveness can be stronger in specific markets and functions.
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Career-Linked Recognition & Rewards — Performance-linked outcomes are implied through mentions that hikes can be good when performance is demonstrated. Learning and development programs are also emphasized as part of the broader value proposition tied to career growth.
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What We Do
Orion is a leading digital transformation and product development services firm. Headquartered in Edison, NJ, we have a global team of 6,200+ associates, with engineers in 14 major delivery centers across North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America. For over 25 years, Orion has been solving complex business problems for our clients. Our transformative business solutions are rooted in digital strategy, experience design, and engineering, empowering our clients to operate with agility at scale. Our mission is to serve as an agile and trusted partner for business transformation initiatives, providing deep emerging technology, experience design, and domain expertise. Our business has more than tripled over the last three years. We have grown aggressively both organically and inorganically, adding new clients, complementary skills, domain expertise, and strengthening our global footprint.
