Senior Network Automation Engineer - Hybrid at Genesis10 in Jersey City, NJ \ Charlotte, NC \ Chandler, AZ \

Job description

• Genesis10 is currently seeking a Senior Network Automation Engineer for a hybrid contract to hire position with a Global Financial Institution located in Jersey City, NJ, Charlotte, NC, or Chandler, AZ.
• This role is responsible for building and maintaining automation, AI, and machine learning capabilities that enable intelligent network event handling, incident self-healing, predictive insights, and AI-assisted troubleshooting. The position focuses on developing backend services and workflows that analyze network signals, correlate events, and trigger automated diagnostics or remediation actions in partnership with Network Operations, Monitoring, and Data Science teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop network automation services for event correlation, intelligent troubleshooting, and automated remediation
• Build automation that supports self-healing use cases, such as automated checks, safe remediation actions, and guided recovery steps
• Develop backend automation services using Python and Django, with supporting data stores (e.g., Redis)
• Integrate automation services with monitoring, telemetry, and alerting systems
• Partner with Network Operations teams to identify repeatable operational patterns suitable for automation
• Ensure automation workflows include guardrails, validation, and rollback logic for safe use in production
• Design and productionize machine learning solutions for anomaly detection, event correlation, and root-cause analysis
• Engineer and curate network telemetry datasets for model-ready transformation
• Develop AI-assisted troubleshooting capabilities using large language models and retrieval-augmented generation
• Build and maintain MLOps pipelines for experiment tracking, model validation, deployment, and monitoring
• Implement responsible AI controls covering explainability, privacy, security, and auditability

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• 8–12 years of experience in network engineering, automation, telemetry, data engineering, or applied analytics
• Demonstrated experience delivering AI/ML-enabled solutions into production
• Strong software development experience in Python, including REST APIs, message queues, or workflow engines
• Experience building backend services using Django or similar frameworks
• Hands-on experience using Redis or equivalent in-memory data stores
• Solid understanding of enterprise network operations (routing, switching, wireless, SD-WAN)
• Strong understanding of supervised and unsupervised machine learning, time-series analysis, anomaly detection, and forecasting
• Hands-on experience with Python data and ML libraries such as pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn, and PyTorch or TensorFlow
• Experience developing and consuming generative AI solutions, including prompt engineering, embeddings, and vector search
• Experience with AI/ML development tooling such as Jupyter, MLflow, containers, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines
• Knowledge of responsible AI, secure AI engineering, data privacy, and model governance
• Experience with event correlation, rule-based automation, or decision-oriented workflows
• Familiarity with observability data (metrics, logs, events) as automation inputs
• Exposure to Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD practices
• Understanding of IT service management and incident workflows
• Experience applying AIOps techniques to network assurance or autonomous operations
• Experience with cloud AI/ML services or GPU-enabled workloads
• Familiarity with graph analytics or knowledge graphs for root-cause analysis

Skills

Required

• Python
• Django
• Redis
• REST APIs
• message queues
• workflow engines
• pandas
• NumPy
• scikit-learn
• PyTorch
• TensorFlow
• Jupyter

Preferred

• event correlation
• rule-based automation
• decision-oriented workflows
• observability data
• Infrastructure as Code
• IT service management
• incident workflows
• AIOps

Benefits

• For contract roles, Genesis10 offers the benefits listed below. If this is a perm-placement opportunity, our recruiter can talk you through the unique benefits offered for that particular client. Benefits of Working with Genesis10:
• Access to hundreds of clients, most who have been working with Genesis10 for 5-20+ years.
• The opportunity to have a career-home in Genesis10; many of our consultants have been working exclusively with Genesis10 for years.
• Access to an experienced, caring recruiting team (more than 7 years of experience, on average.)
• Behavioral Health Platform
• Medical, Dental, Vision
• Health Savings Account
• Voluntary Hospital Indemnity (Critical Illness & Accident)
• Voluntary Term Life Insurance
• 401K
• Sick Pay (for applicable states/municipalities)
• Commuter Benefits (Dallas, NYC, SF, and Illinois)
• For multiple years running, Genesis10 has been recognized as a Top Staffing Firm in the U.S., as a Best Company for Work-Life Balance, as a Best Company for Career Growth, for Diversity, and for Leadership, amongst others. To learn more and to view all our available career opportunities, please visit us at our website.
• Pay range: $63.68 - $71.68 per hour