Network Automation Lead - NetDevOps, Arista, Python, Ansible

Lead Network Automation Engineer - Python/Golang, DC Fabric Design, HPC

This role sits within our clients Global Infrastructure team working to automate a cutting-edge, high-performance datacentre and research platform. You will build the tooling, pipelines, and guardrails that turn network intent into safe, repeatable code. This role focuses on NetDevOps practices, ensuring scalability and reliability across a global on-premise footprint.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect: Design and evolve the network automation framework (Source of Truth, templating, validation).
• Build: Develop idempotent automation for datacentre fabrics and integrate with vendor APIs (Arista, NetQ).
• Standardise: Capture network intent as code, ensuring rigorous peer reviews and quality gates.
• Monitor: Instrument the network with telemetry, alerting, and SLOs to drive automated remediation.
• Collaborate: Work with platform engineers to translate complex designs into automated workflows.

Your Skills

• Development: Advanced Python; Go is highly preferred for performant tooling.
• Automation: Strong Ansible (roles/collections) and workflow orchestration (eg, Temporal).
• Tools: NetBox/Nautobot, Git, and network validation (pyATS, NAPALM).
• Systems: Linux networking, Bash, Docker/Kubernetes, and HashiCorp Vault.
• Observability: Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, and logging/tracing.
• Knowledge: Familiarity with datacentre fabrics, QoS, and high-performance networking is a plus.