Network Automation Engineer

Remote, London·Full-time·Added 5 days ago (last checked 26 Oct)

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Hamilton Barnes

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Our summary

Salary: £60,000 - £75,000 a year
About £3,780 - £4,500 a month after tax.
Work mode: Remote (London)
Contract: Full-time

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Pay & benefits

What you'll get

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
£60,000-£75,000 base salary depending on experience

The role

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.

What you'll do

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