Network Automation Engineer (Remote) - Systems Integrator

Are you looking for an exciting new opportunity?

Join a global boutique specialising exclusively in the convergence of identity-driven security and networking. Through advisory, professional, and managed services, the organization helps customers accelerate time to value, achieve greater cyber resilience, and drive lasting business impact.

A newly created opportunity exists for a Network Automation Engineer to join a specialist network consultancy with a growing automation practice. The ideal candidate will build, maintain, and operationalise network automation workflows across enterprise customer environments, with hands-on experience of source of truth and intent-based networking at scale.

Don’t miss out on this exciting opportunity and apply today!

Responsibilities:

• Design and build network automation workflows using Ansible, Nautobot, and Jinja templating
• Implement and maintain IP Fabric as a network source of truth and visibility platform
• Develop Python scripts to automate network operations, configuration, and validation
• Work with customers to operationalise network automation, moving from manual processes to scalable, repeatable workflows
• Maintain and evolve the source of truth, ensuring network inventory and state data is accurate and trusted
• Contribute to automation ops, monitoring, alerting, and continuous improvement of automated workflows
• IP Fabric
• Ansible
• Nautobot
• Jinja templating
• Python
• Source of truth / intent-based networking
• Network automation ops

Skills/Must Have:

• Hands-on network automation experience, you've built and delivered this in production, not just in a lab
• Strong Ansible background, playbooks, roles, and enterprise-scale automation
• Nautobot experience, network source of truth, IPAM, and DCIM workflows
• IP Fabric experience, network discovery, visibility, and assurance
• Python scripting capability, comfortable writing automation tooling from scratch
• Jinja templating for configuration generation
• Solid underlying network knowledge, you need to understand what you're automating
• Based anywhere in the UK, fully remote role

Benefits:

• Fully remote, UK wide
• Specialist network consultancy with an enterprise customer base
• Network automation is the direction of travel for the entire industry, get ahead of it properly
• IP Fabric, Nautobot, and Ansible together is a rare and highly marketable combination
• Consultancy environment, exposure to multiple customer environments and architectures, not just one estate
• A business investing seriously in automation capability, you'll help shape how the practice grows

Salary:

•  £60,000–£75,000 base salary depending on experience