Network Automation Engineer - 12 Months - London - Hybrid
Posted 5 days ago by Hamilton Barnes
£600 Per day
Inside
Hybrid
London, UK
Summary: The Network Automation Engineer role involves managing and optimizing the global network for a client, focusing on Infrastructure as Code and supporting high-profile projects. The position requires a mix of project work and tier 3 support, with responsibilities including troubleshooting network issues and collaborating with various teams. Candidates should possess strong networking skills and experience with automation tools. The role is based in London and offers a hybrid working arrangement.
Key Responsibilities:
- 3 out of 4 weeks you'll be working on a mix of projects. The other week it is tier 3 support tickets
- Troubleshooting network issues across different vendors (Cisco: IOS-XE, IOS-XR, NX-OS Arista: EOS)
- Providing resolutions to major incidents
- Investigating hardware and software problems and working with manufacturer support teams to resolve issues
- Reporting and troubleshooting network connectivity to third parties, and WAN connectivity outages and issues with our partners
- Monitoring performance across Data Centre infrastructure.
Key Skills:
- Holding a CCNP
- Experience with vendors such as Cisco and Arista
- Strong enterprise complex Routing & Switching
- Strong previous experience with BGP
- Proficient in creating and running network automation tools, with experience using Python preferable
- Previous Firewall experience (Palo Alto or Fortinet)
- Skilled in mentoring other team members, and committed to knowledge sharing across the team for skills development and collaboration
- Infrastructure as Code - Familiar with Ansible/Terraform/AWX for network automation
Salary (Rate): £600/day
City: London
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Network Automation Engineer - 12 Months - London - Hybrid
The Network Operations team is responsible for our clients global network, covering office, data centre, and co-location. As such, it has a major impact on the optimisation or their company performance.
Within the team there is a strong Infrastructure as Code philosophy and commitment to introducing the next generation of applications and distributed platforms to the business.
Alongside core monitoring and support tasks, the team plays a critical role in many high-profile company projects, with team members responsible for delivering technical designs that are developed by the Network Engineering team across the estate.
The opportunity also requires close interaction with Infrastructure, Datacentre and other Operations teams, giving broad exposure to a variety of enterprise products and technologies.
The Role
- 3 out of 4 weeks you'll be working on a mix of projects. The other week it is tier 3 support tickets
- Troubleshooting network issues across different vendors (Cisco: IOS-XE, IOS-XR, NX-OS Arista: EOS)
- Providing resolutions to major incidents
- Investigating hardware and software problems and working with manufacturer support teams to resolve issues
- Reporting and troubleshooting network connectivity to third parties, and WAN connectivity outages and issues with our partners
- Monitoring performance across Data Centre infrastructure.
Must Haves
- Holding a CCNP
- Experience with vendors such as Cisco and Arista
- Strong enterprise complex Routing & Switching
- Strong previous experience with BGP
- Proficient in creating and running network automation tools, with experience using Python preferable
- Previous Firewall experience (Palo Alto or Fortinet)
- Skilled in mentoring other team members, and committed to knowledge sharing across the team for skills development and collaboration
- Infrastructure as Code - Familiar with Ansible/Terraform/AWX for network automation
- Contract Length: 12 Months
- Day Rate: £600/day Inside IR35
- On site req: Hybrid