Network Automation Engineer

Job Description

• Understanding of Itential Automation Platform including build of workflows, Operations Manager Automation, and JSON Transformations
• Experience deploying servers, network devices and building scripts/apps using own or open-source libraries.
• Knowledge and experience working with JSON.
• Knowledge and experience working with RESTful APIs.

Client DetailsMy client - an organisation within the IT industry are looking for a Network Automation Engineer with a particular focus on Itential, Django and Yang - join their site in on a completely remote basis working outside IR35.DescriptionThe successful candidate for the Network Automation Engineer- IT Sector 6-month contract role will fulfil the following responsibilities:

• Ensure quality adherence.
• Ensure best practices while meeting non-functional requirements.
• Validate architecture that is defined and communicated.
• Identify key engagement and solution risks and define mitigation strategies.
• Maintain an understanding of long-term company strategy and ensure that designs will enable projects to meet the changing industry/competitive demand.
• Implement and recommend viable architectural approaches that support long term maintainability, extensibility, and inter-operability of enterprise applications.
• Review requirements, and work with necessary teams, ensuring there is agreement on what software is to be built and implemented.
• Synthesize design, incorporate review comments, and provide critical review of other designs.
• Build and test code to validate functionality against requirements.
• Triage incoming items to validate reported issues and ensure reproducibility.
• Develop and maintain strong, positive relationships with customers, vendors, peers, and other employees.
• Participate in project retrospectives and contribute to continuous improvement of the software development life cycle.
• Stay current on technologies.
• Show accountability and ownership for the work undertaken.
• Provide leadership and mentoring for other engineers

ProfileTo be considered for the Network Automation Engineer contract role the candidate must present evidence of the following:

• Understanding of Itential Automation Platform including build of workflows, Operations Manager Automation, and JSON Transformations
• Experience deploying servers, network devices and building scripts/apps using own or open-source libraries.
• Knowledge and experience working with JSON.
• Knowledge and experience working with RESTful APIs.
• Experience in JavaScript, security, and performance issues with browsers helpful
• Experience and Proficiency with one of these: Javascript, Python, bash scripting, or java
• Knowledge of linux environment and troubleshooting using the linux command line
• Knowledge of basic networking concepts
• Experience in Django development
• Expertise in Yang
• Experience building Cloud Nativ or Hybrid applications using Azure or another public cloud.
• Experience in customer-facing leadership roles
• Strong communication skills
• Experience providing technical leadership on network implementation projects.
• Experience and Proficiency in T-SQL and SQL Server with some basic DBA skills
• Knowledge and application of object-oriented design principles
• A good understanding of IT environments including networking, server technologies, databases, security, and performance.
• Agile methodology and technical lead experience would be advantageous.
• Experience with Ansible playbook creation, creating/using roles, and Ansible inventory management.
• Experience managing and using Ansible Automation Platform (formerly Ansible Tower) Relational database knowledge
• Experience in BDD
• Experience in CI/CD based sw development
• Strong software development skills with an emphasis on Python or Javascript programming
• Strong understanding of REST API methodology
• Strong understanding of software development lifecycle
• Knowledge or experience with cisco IOS IOSXR devices
• knowledge of Element management system (ems) and network management system (nms)
• Ability to login to a cisco device and execute commands and debug
• Basic understanding of l3 and l2 protocols - l3vpn, bgp, isis etc

Job Offer

• 6 month inital contract fully remote, outside IR35.
• Day rate £600- 800.
• Opportunity to work on the Intential platform for a major global technology company.