Network Automation Engineer

Senior Network Automation Engineer

6-month contract Outside IR35 Hybrid - 2 days a week in Manchester Active SC Clearance Required

We’re looking for a Senior Network Automation Engineer to join a consultancy delivering large‑scale transformation across cloud and network infrastructure. This is a hands‑on engineering role for someone passionate about Infrastructure as Code, automation and modern NetDevOps practices. You will work within a highly skilled engineering team delivering automation‑first solutions across hybrid cloud environments while improving reliability, reducing operational overhead and modernising network services.

Key Responsibilities

• Designing and automating cloud‑based network infrastructure
• Building Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and Ansible
• Developing automation for network provisioning and operational tasks
• Building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Supporting AWS, Azure and hybrid cloud networking
• Improving platform reliability and observability
• Working within Agile engineering teams
• Collaborating with Architects, Platform Engineers and Security teams
• Driving continuous improvement and automation across network services

Essential Skills

• Strong Infrastructure as Code experience (Terraform)
• Configuration Management (Ansible preferred)
• CI/CD (GitLab, Jenkins, Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions)
• Linux administration and Bash/Python scripting
• AWS and/or Azure networking
• Kubernetes or container platform experience
• Git and version control
• Monitoring using Prometheus, Grafana or similar
• Strong understanding of NetDevOps principles
• Agile/Scrum delivery experience

Desirable

• Cisco networking
• Palo Alto or Fortinet
• OCI
• Helm
• GitOps
• ArgoCD
• ServiceNow

Tech Stack

Terraform, Ansible, AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, Git, GitLab CI, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Linux, Bash, Python, Prometheus, Grafana, Helm, GitOps