Network Automation Lead - NetDevOps, Arista, Python, Ansible

Posted 2 hours 41 minutes ago by La Fosse Associates Limited

£125,000 - £175,000 Annual
Permanent
Not Specified
Other
London, United Kingdom
Job Description

Network Automation Lead | NetDevOps, Python, Ansible, Arista EOS, NetQ

  • Responsible for building tooling, pipelines, and guardrails that turn network intent into safe, repeatable outcomes for high-performance on-premise datacentre.
  • Design and evolve the network automation framework, including the source of truth, templating, validation, and change control.
  • Build idempotent automation to provision and operate data centre fabrics at scale.
  • Integrate with vendor APIs and SDKs, such as Arista EOS and NetQ.
  • Capture network intent as code, ensuring peer reviews and quality gates are in place.
  • Instrument the network with telemetry, alerting, and SLOs to drive automated remediation.
  • Adhere to NetDevOps practises and share knowledge across the team.
  • Collaborate with network and platform engineers to translate designs into automated workflows.
  • Deliver frequent, incremental improvements through safe, tested changes.
  • Monitor vendor and industry developments and propose practical adoption paths.

Skilled Required

  • Advanced Python development for production-grade tools and services.
  • Experience with Go (preferred) for performant tooling.
  • Strong Ansible experience, including roles, collections, and YAML/JSON data models.
  • Proficiency in Git, including branching, pull requests, and semantic versioning.
  • Understanding of observability fundamentals, including Prometheus, Grafana, and logging and tracing.
  • Experience with source of truth/CMDB systems, such as NetBox and Nautobot.
  • Knowledge of Linux networking, including iptables, DHCP, and DNS, and strong Bash Scripting skills.
  • Ability to work with workflow orchestration, such as Temporal or equivalent.
  • Familiarity with network validation and testing tools, such as pyATS and NAPALM.
  • Experience with containers and orchestration, such as Docker and Kubernetes.
  • Understanding of secure secrets and configuration management, including Vault and PKI best practises.
  • Experience with data centre fabrics, QoS, and high-performance networking is a plus.