Posted 17 days ago
Description
Are you looking for an exciting new opportunity?
Join a global boutique specialising exclusively in the convergence of identity-driven security and networking. Through advisory, professional, and managed services, the organization helps customers accelerate time to value, achieve greater cyber resilience, and drive lasting business impact.
A newly created opportunity exists for a Network Automation Engineer to join a specialist network consultancy with a growing automation practice. The ideal candidate will build, maintain, and operationalise network automation workflows across enterprise customer environments, with hands‑on experience of source of truth and intent-based networking at scale.
Don’t miss out on this exciting opportunity and apply today!
Responsibilities:
- Design and build network automation workflows using Ansible, Nautobot, and Jinja templating
- Implement and maintain IP Fabric as a network source of truth and visibility platform
- Develop Python scripts to automate network operations, configuration, and validation
- Work with customers to operationalise network automation, moving from manual processes to scalable, repeatable workflows
- Maintain and evolve the source of truth, ensuring network inventory and state data is accurate and trusted
- Contribute to automation ops, monitoring, alerting, and continuous improvement of automated workflows
- IP Fabric
- Ansible
- Nautobot
- Jinja templating
- Python
- Source of truth / intent-based networking
- Network automation ops
Skills/Must Have:
- Hands‑on network automation experience, you've built and delivered this in production, not just in a lab
- Strong Ansible background, playbooks, roles, and enterprise‑scale automation
- Nautobot experience, network source of truth, IPAM, and DCIM workflows
- IP Fabric experience, network discovery, visibility, and assurance
- Python scripting capability, comfortable writing automation tooling from scratch
- Jinja templating for configuration generation
- Solid underlying network knowledge, you need to understand what you're automating
- Based anywhere in the UK, fully remote role
Benefits:
- Fully remote, UK wide
- Specialist network consultancy with an enterprise customer base
- Network automation is the direction of travel for the entire industry, get ahead of it properly
- IP Fabric, Nautobot, and Ansible together is a rare and highly marketable combination
- Consultancy environment, exposure to multiple customer environments and architectures, not just one estate
- A business investing seriously in automation capability, you'll help shape how the practice grows
Salary:
- £60,000–£75,000 base salary depending on experience
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