Network AutomationEngineer Location: London (Hybrid, 3 days per week on-site) Duration: 6 months Rate: Negotiable (DOE) Overview An industry-leading global organisation is driving the automation and standardisation of its network infrastructure and services. Theyre looking for a Network Automation Engineer with strong hands-on experience in Ansible, Python, and network orchestration to help design, build, and integrate automation solutions across a range of enterprise platforms. This role blends network engineering, DevOps, and systems integration ideal for someone comfortable writing automation playbooks and APIs while understanding routing, firewalls, and connectivity fundamentals. Key Responsibilities Design, build, and maintain automation solutions for network and infrastructure systems. Develop Ansible playbooks and reusable automation modules for configuration, orchestration, and provisioning. Configure and integrate Cisco NSO and related orchestration tools to streamline network operations. Build and maintain API-based integrations with systems such as ServiceNow, NetBox, and GitHub. Drive network configuration standardisation using YANG models for routers and switches. Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions / Azure DevOps) for network code delivery. Troubleshoot and optimise automation workflows across hybrid (on-prem and cloud) environments. Collaborate with architects, service owners, and developers to translate requirements into scalable automated solutions. Maintain documentation for designs, processes, and operational procedures. Promote automation, standardisation, and best practices across global teams. Core Technologies Automation & Orchestration: Ansible, Cisco NSO, Terraform, GitOps (GitHub / GitLab / Azure DevOps) Networking & Modelling: YANG, RESTCONF, NETCONF, XML, JSON, Jinja2, NetBox Cloud & Platform: Azure, AWS, RedHat Enterprise Linux, VMware, OpenStack Scripting & Languages: Python, Bash, YAML (Go / PowerShell desirable) CI/CD & Tooling: GitHub Actions, Azure Pipelines, Jenkins, Terraform, ServiceNow Monitoring & Observability: Grafana, Prometheus (desirable) Experience & Requirements Proven experience in network engineering or network automation (WAN, LAN, routing, switching, DNS, DHCP). Hands-on experience developing automation using Ansible and Python . Familiarity with Cisco NSO and YANG modelling or similar orchestration tools. Understanding of network APIs (REST/NETCONF) and data formats ( XML/JSON ). Experience integrating automation into CI/CD pipelines using Git-based workflows. Comfortable working in Linux-based environments (RedHat, CentOS, Ubuntu). Knowledge of cloud networking (Azure / AWS VPCs, Transit Gateways, VPNs). Excellent documentation, troubleshooting, and stakeholder communication skills. Certifications such as Cisco CCNP / DevNet Professional preferred; ITIL desirable. What Youll Work On Standardising and automating global network configurations and connectivity services. Integrating network provisioning with ServiceNow and NetBox. Building the automation layer for hybrid cloud networks (Azure / AWS / on-prem). Creating reusable playbooks, templates, and design artefacts for future deployments. Supporting the organisations transition toward infrastructure-as-code and self-service provisioning . Ideal Candidate Youre an experienced Network Automation Engineer , Network DevOps Engineer , or DevNet Specialist with hands-on expertise in both traditional networking and modern automation practices. Youre fluent in Python , think in APIs , and take pride in transforming manual configurations into efficient, repeatable code. If you're interested and keen to find out more, please apply now with your updated CV and reach out to Tom Johnson at Certain Advantage - Ref: 79585 TPBN1\_UKTJ
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Ready to automate, innovate and make a real impact?
Do you want to build reliable, scalable systems that make a real difference to millions of people? Do you want to work at a certified B Corp with an inclusive and learning culture as part of a diverse team of great people?
If so, Opencast could be the place for you. We’re a growing tech consultancy that creates user-centred solutions with purpose for our clients in government, healthcare and purpose-driven businesses. Working in DevOps, you’ll build and maintain the systems that let teams respond quickly to needs. You’llwork on high-impact projects, helping to build reliable, scalable systems. We align work to industry-recognised roles such as Build & Release Engineer (BRE), Platform Engineer (PLE) or Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) and, where needed, to more specialised areas such as security, cloud hosting, infrastructure or networking.
What’s life like as a DevOps consultant at Opencast?
At Opencast, we love to keep things simple, and we love automation.
It’s not the same as your standard Devops Consultant job. Depending on your client’s needs, you’ll take on a range of roles. These will include:
- Taking the lead on responding to outages, triaging issues, balancing stakeholder priorities/concerns, and keeping communication channels open with all parties.
- Developing, and implementing continuous deployment solutions that help our clients to deliver software faster and more efficiently.
- Collaborating with our clients to understand their ways of working and will have an enthusiasm to learn new tools and technologies as needed.
- Contributing within Opencast communities.
- Ensure that work is carried out in accordance with Opencast’s quality, environmental, and information security policies and procedures, as well as applicable customer policies, standards, and procedures while working on client.
We care about building things right. We believe in good devops practices and keeping things simple. We want to support you as much as we can on interiorising our approach to devops engineering and you supporting others.
- We are proud consultants who combine our own experience and approach with our company values.
- We are comfortable with new tech. We are empowered, cloud native, vendor agnostic devops engineers. We are empathetic, patient and care about quality.
- We know when to pick our battles and how to manage expectations. We are humble, inclusive team players that listen and collaborate, with zero egos!
- We’re always willing to teach and help others (inside or outside of our team). And we’re always willing to learn.
- It’s a varied job that keeps you super technical and excited.
Salary:
- £50,000 - £60,000
Some of the benefits our offer includes:
- A competitive pension, health cash plan, share options and discretionary bonus.
- Flexible hours and 25 days’ holiday.
- People to support you every step of the way.
Where you’ll work:
- Your working time at Opencast will be split between multiple locations, including from our HQ and hub locations, client site or home. Travel is part of life at Opencast, and takes in account requirements of your work, our clients and your team.
We include you:
- We welcome candidates from all identities, attributes, ways of thinking and backgrounds to thrive in a career at Opencast. Our aim is for the diversity of our people to be reflected in the solutions we deliver, to help create a fairer society for all.
Interview:
- Job interviews are on Microsoft Teams. We’ll make any adjustments to help you.