Network Automation Engineer

7 days ago

London Area, United Kingdom Iceberg Full time £75,000 - £85,000 per year

Network Automation Engineer — DevOps-Focused (London | Hybrid)

Base Salary: £75,000 – £85,000 + Benefits

I am supporting a high-growth connectivity and digital infrastructure organisation that is building out its automation capability within a highly technical network engineering team. They are looking for a Network Automation Engineer who comes from a strong networking foundation and has evolved into automation, scripting and DevOps-style delivery.

You will be joining an engineering group of seven, where two members currently focus on automation and five are pure networking specialists. This hire acts as the bridge between both - enabling scalable, reliable and repeatable deployments across complex infrastructure environments. This role suits someone who enjoys rolling up their sleeves, solving real-world distributed systems problems and shipping solutions rather than managing tickets.

What You'll Be Doing

  • Design, build and automate network solutions from end-to-end across internal and customer environments
  • Develop tooling, workflows and infrastructure as code to accelerate delivery and eliminate repetitive manual effort
  • Work closely with network engineers to productise best practices, reduce configuration drift, and improve operational reliability
  • Deploy, test, and optimise automation capabilities across both on-prem and cloud-connected networks
  • Participate in incident response, troubleshooting and debugging complex network automation failures
  • Maintain comprehensive documentation, diagrams and technical standards to ensure sustainable ownership
  • Collaborate within a senior technical team and mentor others on automation practices when required

Core Technologies & Skills

You should be strong in:

  • Python
    — scripting, tooling, API interaction, automation pipelines
  • Ansible
    — playbooks, roles, multi-environment automation
  • Terraform
    — infrastructure-as-code principles, versioning, reusability, modularity

Experience in any of the following is a significant bonus:

  • Temporal
    (workflow orchestration / durable execution)
  • GoLang
    (tooling, services, backend automation)
  • CI/CD pipelines, GitOps, network orchestration
  • Working within DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure automation environments

A strong grounding in traditional networking (L2/L3, routing, switching, vendor ecosystems) is expected - the role is ideal for someone who moved from "network engineer who scripts" to "engineer who automates networks at scale."

What You'll Bring

  • Ability to translate network challenges into automation solutions
  • Confidence owning outcomes rather than waiting for direction
  • Curiosity around new tooling, workflow frameworks and repeatability
  • Comfort collaborating within a high-performance engineering culture

Working Pattern

  • Hybrid - London office 2 days per week
  • On-site engagement with internal or customer systems when required

If you're a network engineer who has transitioned into real automation work and wants to shape how infrastructure is delivered going forward - this could be a strong fit. Reach out for a confidential discussion.

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