Software Engineer - Network Management (cur_1_132184@curatelyai.net)

Job Description

Job Description

"All candidates must be directly contracted by ASK Consulting on their payroll and cannot be subcontracted. We are unable to provide sponsorship at this moment".

Job Title: Software Engineer – Network Management & DDI

Location: Riverton, UT, 84065

Duration: 12 Months

Pay rate: $55/hr. - $60/hr. On W2

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

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

Network Management Software – DNS, DHCP & IPAM

• Design and develop software solutions for enterprise DNS, DHCP, and IP Address Management (DDI/IPAM).
• Build software for automated IP allocation, reservation, discovery, reclamation,
• and lifecycle management.
• Develop APIs and workflows for managing DNS records, DHCP configuration, subnets, address pools, leases, and related network resources.
• Build integrations between DDI/IPAM platforms and compute, networking, provisioning, cloud, and datacenter systems.
• Develop software to automate network-resource onboarding and configuration across multiple datacenters and environments.
• Help establish authoritative infrastructure data and source-of-truth models for network resources.

APIs, Automation & Platform Integration

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

Reliability & Observability:

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

Required Skills & Experience:

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

Software Engineering

• Strong Python programming skills and professional software development experience.
• Experience designing and developing production backend services and applications.
• Strong understanding of software engineering fundamentals, including: ○ Object-oriented and modular software design
• REST API design
• Data structures and algorithms
• Automated testing
• Git and modern development workflows
• CI/CD
• Debugging and performance troubleshooting
• Experience developing software that integrates with external systems through APIs, databases, messaging systems, or event-driven architectures.
• Strong Linux development and troubleshooting skills.

Networking & DDI

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

Infrastructure Automation

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

Collaboration & Ownership

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

Nice to Have:

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

About ASK: ASK Consulting is an award-winning technology and professional services recruiting firm servicing Fortune 500 organizations nationally. With 5 nationwide offices, two global delivery centers, and employees in 42 states-ASK Consulting connects people with amazing opportunities

ASK Consulting is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all associates.