Network Automation Engineer - 12 Months - London - Hybrid

Network Automation Engineer - 12 Months - London - Hybrid

The Network Operations team is responsible for our clients global network, covering office, data centre, and co-location. As such, it has a major impact on the optimisation or their company performance.
Within the team there is a strong Infrastructure as Code philosophy and commitment to introducing the next generation of applications and distributed platforms to the business.
Alongside core monitoring and support tasks, the team plays a critical role in many high-profile company projects, with team members responsible for delivering technical designs that are developed by the Network Engineering team across the estate.
The opportunity also requires close interaction with Infrastructure, Datacentre and other Operations teams, giving broad exposure to a variety of enterprise products and technologies.

The Role

• 3 out of 4 weeks you'll be working on a mix of projects. The other week it is tier 3 support tickets
• Troubleshooting network issues across different vendors (Cisco: IOS-XE, IOS-XR, NX-OS Arista: EOS)
• Providing resolutions to major incidents
• Investigating hardware and software problems and working with manufacturer support teams to resolve issues
• Reporting and troubleshooting network connectivity to third parties, and WAN connectivity outages and issues with our partners
• Monitoring performance across Data Centre infrastructure.

Must Haves

• Holding a CCNP
• Experience with vendors such as Cisco and Arista
• Strong enterprise complex Routing & Switching
• Strong previous experience with BGP
• Proficient in creating and running network automation tools, with experience using Python preferable
• Previous Firewall experience (Palo Alto or Fortinet)
• Skilled in mentoring other team members, and committed to knowledge sharing across the team for skills development and collaboration
• Infrastructure as Code - Familiar with Ansible/Terraform/AWX for network automation

• Contract Length: 12 Months
• Day Rate: £600/day Inside IR35
• On site req: Hybrid