Senior Network Automation Engineer
On-site · London, England, United Kingdom
Job Summary
Senior Network Automation Engineer to design and evolve the network automation framework, build idempotent automation to provision and operate data centre fabrics at scale, integrate with vendor APIs (e.g., Arista EOS, NetQ), capture network intent as code with peer reviews and quality gates, instrument the network with telemetry and SLOs for automated remediation, follow NetDevOps practices, and collaborate with network and platform engineers to translate designs into automated workflows. Requires advanced Python, Go, Ansible, Git, observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana), CMDB/netbox/Nautobot experience, Linux networking, bash, Temporal/workflow orchestration, pyATS/NAPALM for validation, and container orchestration (Docker/Kubernetes); security-conscious configurations (Vault, PKI); plus familiarity with data centre fabrics and high-performance networking.
Required Qualifications
- Advanced Python development for production-grade tools and services
- Go (preferred) for performant tooling
- Strong Ansible experience (roles, collections, YAML/JSON data models)
- Git proficiency including branching, pull requests, and semantic versioning
- Observability fundamentals (Prometheus, Grafana, logging and tracing)
- Source of truth/CMDB systems (NetBox, Nautobot etc.)
- Linux networking (iptables, DHCP, DNS) and strong Bash scripting
- Workflow orchestration (Temporal or equivalent)
- Network validation and testing tools (pyATS, NAPALM etc.)
- Containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Secure secrets and configuration management (Vault, PKI best practices)
- Experience with data centre fabrics, QoS, and high-performance networking is a plus
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