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Director, Network Automation & Tooling

Chicago, IL, US💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-28 → 2026-10-01

Core

Lead the strategy, architecture, and team for a centralized Docker/Kubernetes backend hosting AI agents that automate infrastructure operations across network, security, and telemetry domains to enable 10x capacity scaling.

Role type

Director, Network Automation & Agentic AI Engineering

Builds

Centralized Docker/Kubernetes backend hosting a fleet of AI agents for infrastructure automation

Domain

Financial Infrastructure / Network Engineering / AI Agents

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Container orchestration, Infrastructure automation at scale, Agentic AI patterns, Team leadership, Strategic planning, Hands-on engineering

Preferred skills

Experience with Ansible, Prometheus, Grafana, SNMP, gNMI, syslog, Machine learning for anomaly detection

Technologies

Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, Prometheus, Grafana, Claude Code, SNMP, gNMI, syslog

Responsibilities

Lead and mentor a multidisciplinary team of network, security, and telemetry engineers; Own automated configuration deployment and drift detection systems; Build synthetic testing automations for critical infrastructure; Define strategy for ML and agentic analysis for anomaly detection and forecasting; Guide technical direction of the agent framework using agentic coding tools; Establish governance frameworks for autonomous agents in production; Partner with Operations and Engineering leadership to align priorities and resourcing.

Seniority

Director, Strategy & Hands-on IC

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