Network Automation Engineer

Festo inspires people and organizations around the world with innovative solutions for industrial automation. We are an independent family business and offer more than 20,000 employees the opportunity to take bold steps, realize their ideas, and take on responsibility. As a team, we grow by tackling challenges together and we welcome everyone who wants to move the world with us.

Festo Lithuania, established in 1992 in Kaunas, operates as a Global Business Services center. Join the movement and unlock your full potential in a global company that fosters growth, collaboration, and meaningful impact.

Your job:

• Design, deploy and maintain LAN, WAN, WLAN (Ect. Cisco or Meraki) infrastructure (switching, routing)
• Implement and maintain network automation to provision devices, apply configurations, manage changes and collect telemetry using tools such as Ansible, Python or similar
• Build and maintain infrastructure-as-code (IaC) for network components and cloud-network integration (VPCs, subnets, route tables, security groups).Integrate network monitoring and observability: collect, analyze and act on telemetry (SNMP, streaming telemetry, NetFlow), use tools such as Grafana, ELK or commercial NMS
• Implement configuration management, version control and CI/CD pipelines for network changes (GitLab or similar).Perform troubleshooting and root-cause analysis of complex network incidents across physical, virtual and cloud environments
• Support cloud networking across AWS, Azure: hybrid connectivity, transit architectures and cloud-native network services
• Provide capacity planning, performance tuning and participate in architecture reviews and projects

Your qualification:

• Degree in Computer Science, Telecommunications, Electrical Engineering or equivalent professional experience
• 3+ years of hands-on experience in network engineering (enterprise or service provider)
• Demonstrable experience automating network operations using at least one of: Ansible, Python, Terraform, or similar tools
• Strong knowledge of routing and switching protocols: BGP, EIGRP, VLANs, STP, VRF, MPLS and VPN technologies (GRE/IPsec)
• Experience with network management and observability tools (Cisco Catalyst Center, SNMP, NetFlow, streaming telemetry and others), and monitoring (Grafana, or comparable)
• Practical experience with cloud networking in AWS/Azure (VPC/VNet design, hybrid connectivity)
• Familiar with IaC and CI/CD practices (Terraform, Git, GitLab)
• Experience with version control (Git) and configuration management workflows
• English fluency

Nice to have:

• Certifications: Cisco (CCNA/CCNP/CCIE/DevNet), or CompTIA Network+, AWS/Azure networking, Linux/Redhat certs
• Experience with SD-WAN, SDN controllers, intent-based networking

Your benefits at a glance:

• Salary: 3000-3600 EUR gross + yearly bonuses and 13th salary
• Working model: hybrid, 2 day/ week in office
• Culture: people-focused, strong team spirit
• Growth: trainings, global projects, expert collaboration
• Global Network: multiple cultures, language practice, business trips
• Additional: engaging events & sports, modern office, free parking. perks.lt app

You can find more detailed information about Festo as an employer here: www.festo.com/career

We look forward to receiving your online application.

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