Network Automation Engineer

Location: Hybrid (Remote/Office), Portugal, Lisbon/Amadora

Company

hirify.global is an energy technology company developing reliable and sustainable energy systems, with more than 100,000 employees across over 90 countries.

What you will do

• Build and maintain reusable automation for campus, WAN, Data Center, DDI, and Secure Access platforms using declarative data models, APIs, and Infrastructure-as-Code practices.
• Establish version-controlled workflows with peer review, automated testing, policy checks, change validation, rollback, and configuration-compliance controls.
• Integrate network source-of-truth, IPAM/DDI, ITSM, controllers, telemetry, and supplier workflows for end-to-end orchestration and accurate operational context.
• Convert high-volume manual activities and runbooks into standardized self-service workflows that reduce lead time, configuration drift, and reliance on individual experts.
• Create the technical foundation for AI-assisted and agentic NetOps through trusted data, safe actions, audit trails, and measurable automation outcomes.
• Collaborate with network operations, architecture, SRE, service owner, and supplier teams.

Requirements

• University degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• Solid understanding of enterprise networking, including routing, switching, IP services, and at least one of campus, WAN, Data Center, DDI, or Network Security.
• Hands-on software and automation skills with Python, APIs, data structures, and automation frameworks such as Ansible, Terraform, Nornir, or comparable tools.
• Experience with enterprise version control and configuration management, CI/CD, declarative infrastructure workflows, automated testing, secrets management, code review, and traceable infrastructure changes.
• Engineering mindset focused on reusable products, documentation, testing, security, maintainability, and measurable reduction of manual toil.

Nice to have

• Knowledge of network data models and interfaces such as YANG, NETCONF, RESTCONF, gNMI, OpenConfig, and vendor APIs.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid remote/office work in Portugal.
• Meal allowance and health insurance.
• Five additional pre-established “Pontes” vacation days when not working abroad.
• Birthday day off when it falls on a weekday and the employee is not abroad.
• Free shuttle service to the Alfragide office.
• Inclusive environment with colleagues from more than 130 nationalities.