Network Automation Specialist

About Company : Our Client Corporation provides digital engineering and technology services to Forbes Global 2000 companies worldwide. Our Engineering First approach ensures we can execute all ideas and creatively solve pressing business challenges. With industry expertise and empowered agile teams, we prioritize execution early in the process for impactful results. We combine logic, creativity and curiosity to build, solve, and create. Every day, we help clients engage with new technology paradigms, creatively building solutions that solve their most pressing business challenges and move them to the forefront of their industry.

Job Role : Networking Automation Engineer

Experience : 8-12 YEARS

Client : LTI Mindtree C2H

Notice period : Immediate-15 Days

Location : Chennai (WFO 3 days a week from LTIM office at Bengaluru)

Job Description :

Job Title : Network Automation Engineer – Private Cloud Datacenter

Job Description :

We are looking for an experienced Network Automation Engineer to design, implement, and optimize automation solutions for our Private Cloud datacenter network, which underpins large-scale AI / ML GPU and TPU workloads. This role focuses on automating configuration, provisioning, and monitoring of high-performance networking devices to ensure low latency, high throughput, and reliability in a mission-critical environment. This role involves automating network device management as well as OS-level network configurations on servers. Expertise in Ansible and Python is essential, and experience with GoLang is a strong plus.

Key Responsibilities :

• Develop and maintain network automation frameworks for large-scale datacenter environments supporting AI / ML workloads.
• Build Ansible playbooks, roles, and modules to automate device configurations, software upgrades, and compliance checks across multi-vendor environments.
• Design and implement Python-based automation scripts and tools to integrate with APIs, orchestration platforms, and monitoring systems.
• Automate OS core networking configurations on servers (Linux / Windows / Hypervisor) including bonding, VLANs, routing tables, kernel network parameters, MTU tuning, and NIC performance optimization.
• Collaborate with cloud infrastructure, network engineering, and DevOps teams to deliver seamless provisioning and scaling of GPU / TPU clusters.
• Ensure network automation solutions meet high-performance computing (HPC) requirements such as low latency, high throughput, and fault tolerance.
• Participate in network architecture reviews to provide automation insights and recommendations.
• Document automation processes, workflows, and operational guidelines for the datacenter network.
• Stay updated on emerging technologies in network automation, SDN, and private cloud networking.

Required Skills & Experience :

o Network stack configuration (sysctl tuning, TCP / UDP parameters).

o NIC bonding, SR-IOV, DPDK, and kernel bypass techniques.

o VLANs, routing tables, MTU adjustments, jumbo frames.

o Performance tuning for HPC / AI workloads.

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