Satellite Telemetry Control Command Jobs in New York

OverviewOntrac Solutions is seeking a Network Automation & Reliability Engineer to operate and automate hyperscale data center, backbone, and out-of-band (OOB) networks. This is a Python-first role: you will spend more of your week writing code that operates the network than typing on a CLI. You will build the tooling, telemetry pipelines, and self-healing automation that keep a global fleet of data centers and POP sites running, and you will carry the on-call pager for the systems you build. We are looking for an engineer who is genuinely production‑grade on both sides of the job — deep routing and switching fundamentals and real, sustained Python software work. Candidates who are strong on one side and thin on the other will not clear screening.

• Python — primary requirement
• Demonstrated, sustained Python development in a production network or infrastructure environment. You have written and maintained tooling that other engineers depended on: config generation and validation, API integrations, telemetry collectors, automated remediation, or test harnesses. You are comfortable with modules, packaging, testing, code review, and version control — not just single‑file scripts.
• Routing & switching depth: Production experience with BGP (policy, path selection, multihoming), plus IS‑IS or OSPF, ECMP, and VXLAN/EVPN or MPLS overlays.
• Multi‑vendor hardware: Hands‑on operations across at least two of Arista EOS, Juniper Junos (QFX/SRX/PTX/MX), or Cisco IOS‑XR / NX‑OS.
• Automation frameworks: Ansible and Jinja2, plus NETCONF/YANG, RESTCONF, or vendor REST APIs for model‑driven configuration management.
• Telemetry & monitoring: gNMI/gRPC streaming telemetry, OpenConfig models, SNMP, flow telemetry, and dashboarding/alerting on top of them.
• Linux: Comfortable operating on Linux hosts — networking stack, packet capture, systemd services, and shell scripting.
• Version control and CI: Git‑based workflows with peer review; experience shipping network changes through a pipeline (Jenkins, GitLab CI, or GitHub Actions).
• Production on‑call: Experience holding a 24×7 rotation for a live network, including incident command and root‑cause analysis.
• Experience level: Roughly 2–5 years in a network production, network reliability, or network automation role. Exceptional early‑career engineers with a strong Python portfolio and hyperscale or carrier exposure are encouraged to apply.

• Out‑of‑band network experience — console server fleets (ZPE Nodegrid, OpenGear), RS‑232 configuration management, or OOB build‑out for new data center capacity.
• Data center or POP build‑out and turn‑up: new product introduction (NPI) for switching platforms, port channelization and optics selection, cabling and rack density planning, or hardware qualification and stress testing.
• MACsec, IPsec at scale, or zero‑trust segmentation with 802.1X and NAC.
• Optical or transport exposure — DWDM, Ciena, PON/OLT/ONU, or IXIA/Spirent test automation.
• Building or contributing to a network source of truth (NetBox or in‑house) aggregating BGP, link‑state, and drain‑state data.
• Applying LLM or agentic tooling to on‑call workflows — automated triage, runbook execution, or incident summarization.
• A master's degree in Network Engineering, Telecommunications, or Computer Science.

• Design, write, and maintain Python tooling that provisions, validates, and audits network devices across the global fleet.
• Build model‑driven provisioning libraries using Jinja2 templating with NETCONF/YANG or REST APIs to codify golden configurations and eliminate configuration drift.
• Develop automated remediation for recurring failure classes — route flaps, hardware faults, optical degradation — triggered by syslog and telemetry.
• Reduce operational toil: Identify manual runbook steps that recur, and replace them with tested, reviewed code.

• Operate and scale data center fabrics, backbone links, and out‑of‑band management networks across a global footprint of data centers and POP sites.
• Design and tune BGP policy — local preference, MED, communities, import/export policy, default‑route propagation — to control path selection and eliminate single‑carrier points of failure.
• Support capacity expansion and site turn‑ups: high‑level design, port channelization, optics and cabling standards, and hardware qualification.
• Execute zero‑downtime change management in production, including hitless migrations and staged rollbacks.

• Operationalize multi‑vendor streaming telemetry (gNMI/gRPC, OpenConfig) and tune subscription jobs for signal quality and management‑plane efficiency.
• Build and maintain observability that supports hop‑by‑hop path tracing, multi‑layer fault isolation, and fast root cause analysis.
• Contribute to a real‑time network source of truth aggregating BGP, link‑state, and drain‑state data.
• Participate in a 24x7 on‑call rotation; lead incident response, write RCAs, and drive the follow‑up automation that prevents recurrence.

• Maintain and optimize firewall and ACL policy across multi‑vendor platforms, keeping rule sets scoped and performant.
• Support SIRT/PSIRT CVE remediation through automated regression testing and config‑as‑code pipelines.
• Author and maintain technical documentation — designs, runbooks, and API contracts — for the tooling and networks you own.

Must be located in the United States and authorized to work in the US.