Python Software Engineer Network Management & DDI

You will work closely with networking, datacenter, compute, storage, and platform engineering teams to transform traditionally manual network-management processes into scalable, API-driven software solutions. You will build Python services, APIs, automation frameworks, and integrations that manage network resources and provide infrastructure capabilities as programmable, self-service services.

Description:

Job Summary

 

We are looking for a Python Software Engineer to design and develop software platforms for enterprise network and infrastructure management, with a particular focus on DNS, DHCP, and IP Address Management (DDI/IPAM).

 

 

 

This is primarily a software development role. You will build Python services, APIs, automation frameworks, and integrations that manage network resources and provide infrastructure capabilities as programmable, self-service services.

 

 

 

You will work closely with networking, datacenter, compute, storage, and platform engineering teams to transform traditionally manual network-management processes into scalable, API-driven software solutions.

 

 

 

Key Responsibilities

 

 

 

Python Software Development

 

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• Design, develop, test, and maintain production-quality software primarily in Python.
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• Build scalable backend services, APIs, libraries, and automation frameworks for infrastructure and network management.
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• Apply modern software engineering practices including code reviews, automated testing, CI/CD, version control, API design, and software lifecycle management.
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• Design software that can reliably operate across multiple datacenters and large infrastructure environments.
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• Troubleshoot complex software and distributed-system problems and implement sustainable fixes.
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Network Management Software – DNS, DHCP & IPAM

 

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• Design and develop software solutions for enterprise DNS, DHCP, and IP Address Management (DDI/IPAM).
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• Build software for automated IP allocation, reservation, discovery, reclamation,
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and lifecycle management.

 

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• Develop APIs and workflows for managing DNS records, DHCP configuration, subnets, address pools, leases, and related network resources.
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• Build integrations between DDI/IPAM platforms and compute, networking, provisioning, cloud, and datacenter systems.
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• Develop software to automate network-resource onboarding and configuration across multiple datacenters and environments.
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• Help establish authoritative infrastructure data and source-of-truth models for network resources.
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APIs, Automation & Platform Integration

 

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• Design and implement REST APIs and other programmatic interfaces for network and infrastructure services.
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• Build integrations with infrastructure platforms, CMDBs, provisioning systems, and automation frameworks.
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• Develop event-driven and workflow-based automation for infrastructure lifecycle management.
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• Build solutions that dynamically allocate and recycle IP addresses and other network resources for compute infrastructure.
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• Integrate network-management services with bare-metal provisioning, PXE/network boot, virtualization, and cloud workflows.
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• Enable infrastructure capabilities to be consumed through APIs and self-service platforms rather than manual operational processes.
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Reliability & Observability

 

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• Build monitoring, metrics, logging, and health-check capabilities into network-management services.
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• Implement dashboards and alerting using technologies such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or similar platforms.
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• Define and track service metrics such as availability, latency, capacity, error rates, and resource utilization.
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• Participate in incident response and root-cause analysis for software and network-management services.
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• Improve reliability through automation, testing, observability, and operational tooling.
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Required Skills & Experience

 

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• 5+ years of relevant experience
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• Bachelor's degree required
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Software Engineering

 

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• Strong Python programming skills and professional software development experience.
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• Experience designing and developing production backend services and applications.
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• Strong understanding of software engineering fundamentals, including: Object-oriented and modular software design
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REST API design

 

Data structures and algorithms

 

Automated testing

 

Git and modern development workflows

 

CI/CD

 

Debugging and performance troubleshooting

 

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• Experience developing software that integrates with external systems through APIs, databases, messaging systems, or event-driven architectures.
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• Strong Linux development and troubleshooting skills.
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Networking & DDI

 

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• Solid understanding of networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, subnets, routing, VLANs, DNS, and DHCP.
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• Experience with or strong knowledge of IP Address Management (IPAM).
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• Understanding of DNS zones, records, resolution, DHCP scopes, leases, reservations, and IP address lifecycle management.
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• Experience developing or integrating network-management systems through APIs.
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• Ability to translate networking requirements into maintainable software abstractions and automated workflows.
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Infrastructure Automation

 

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• Experience with infrastructure automation tools such as Ansible, Puppet, or similar technologies.
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• Familiarity with CMDB or infrastructure source-of-truth systems.
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• Understanding of bare-metal provisioning and infrastructure lifecycle management.
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• Experience building automated infrastructure onboarding and provisioning workflows.
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Collaboration & Ownership

 

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• Comfortable working across software engineering, networking, compute, storage, datacenter, and SRE teams.
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• Ability to take ownership of a software service from architecture and development through deployment and production operations.
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• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to turn ambiguous infrastructure requirements into well-defined software solutions.
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• Strong focus on automation, reliability, maintainability, and scalability.
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Nice to Have

 

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• Experience developing or operating enterprise DDI/IPAM platforms such as Nautobot, NetBox, Infoblox, BlueCat, Kea DHCP, BIND, or similar technologies.
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• Experience building network automation or network management software.
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• Experience with FastAPI, Flask, Django, or similar Python frameworks.
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• Experience with PostgreSQL or other relational databases.
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• Experience with Kubernetes, containers, and cloud-native application development.
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• Experience with event-driven architectures, message queues, or workflow engines.
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• Experience with large-scale internal infrastructure platforms or Infrastructure as a Product.
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• SRE or DevOps experience.
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• Experience with multi-datacenter or hybrid-cloud environments.
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• Familiarity with PXE, network boot, OS imaging, and server bootstrap/provisioning systems.
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