Network Automation Lead - NetDevOps, Arista, Python, Ansible

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.