DevOps Engineer - Networks at NEXTDC

As our DevOps Engineer - Networks you’ll be responsible for designing, building, and operating the initial network automation, monitoring, and tooling stack for IT and OT network operations in the data centre. In this role you’ll establish first generation scripts, pipelines, standards, and documentation to move the organisation from manual operations to automated, code driven network practices, under support from the Network & Security Operations team. Within this position, your scope will cover: • Designing and implementing the first generation of network automation playbooks, scripts, and templates for standard changes, provisioning, and configuration compliance across IT and OT networks • Selecting and implementing initial toolchain components (e.g. Git repository, CI/CD tool, Ansible/Terraform, basic test frameworks) defining how they will be used by the operations team • Establishing and configuring core network monitoring and logging for the data centre (devices onboarded, alert rules, dashboards, basic SLOs) and integrating where possible with ITSM/CMDB/DCIM platforms • Define and document standard operating procedures and runbooks for using automation and tools (how to request changes, how pipelines work, how to roll back) • Support incident and problem management by providing tooling, diagnostics scripts, and data exports to accelerate root cause analysis and post incident reviewsYour technical skillset will include: • Strong practical Python and shell scripting skills to build automation, small tools, and integrations without existing frameworks • Hands on experience setting up at least one network automation/IaC stack (e.g. Ansible + Git + CI, or Terraform based workflows) from an early stage starting point • Configuration and onboarding devices into monitoring/logging platforms (e.g. SolarWinds/PRTG, Prometheus/Grafana, Elastic/Splunk), define alert rules, and build useful dashboards • Switching, routing, firewalls, and VPN in data centre or enterprise networks, including HA and basic segmentation designs • Designing simple but robust automation patterns and coding standards suitable for use by operations engineers (idempotent changes, rollbacks, safety checks)