15 hours ago
Long Beach, CA, USASenior
Base Salary
$131k - $186k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop end-to-end automation pipelines for EVPN-VXLAN underlay and overlay fabrics across Arista and Juniper environments.
- Integrate AI-assisted engineering, agentic automation testing, playbook generation, and natural-language telemetry workflows.
- Maintain vendor-agnostic Network as Code standards using reusable YAML, JSON, and YANG data models.
- Own schema configuration and data definitions for NetBox or Nautobot Single Source of Truth platforms.
- Build continuous network CI/CD validation and dry-run testing workflows using Batfish, pyATS, GitLab CI, and GitHub Actions.
- Define automation coding standards and AI-generated-code guardrails while mentoring junior network developers.
Requirements
- 7–10 years of network engineering experience, including at least 4 years in network automation and NetDevOps.
- Deep expertise in eBGP, OSPF, EVPN-VXLAN, and enterprise-scale data center and campus fabric design.
- Experience programmatically managing Arista EOS and Juniper Junos systems.
- Senior-level software engineering proficiency with Python and Nornir, Asyncio, and NAPALM, or with Go.
- Practical experience with AI code assistants, prompt engineering, or agentic frameworks for generating, refactoring, and testing automation code.
- Production experience with Terraform, Ansible, and GitOps workflows.
- Preferred certifications include Arista ACE, Juniper JNCIE, Cisco CCIE, or DevNet Professional/Expert.
- Preferred experience includes gNMI, gRPC, Docker, and Kubernetes.
- Ability to travel up to 20%, work overtime or weekends for critical milestones, lift up to 25 pounds unassisted, and obtain applicable certifications.
Benefits
- Full-time exempt position based in Long Beach, California, with up to 20% travel and occasional overtime or weekend work.
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents.
- Paid time off, including up to 20+ vacation days for exempt staff, and paid parental leave.
- Short- and long-term disability insurance, life insurance, and access to a 401(k) plan.
- Company equity, ClassPass credits, personalized mental healthcare through Spring Health, and other discounts and perks.
- Free snacks, drip coffee, onsite barista service, cold drinks, dinner meals, and subsidized lunch.
About Vast
Vast designs and builds commercial space stations and related space infrastructure for government, commercial, and private customers, enabling microgravity research, manufacturing, and crewed missions. Its roadmap includes the multi‑module Haven Station and a high‑power Vast Satellite product line that leverages station components. Founded in 2021 and headquartered in Long Beach, California, the privately held company develops, manufactures, and operates its systems in-house.