Network Automation Engineer

Company: Hamilton Barnes
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Location: London
Job Description:

Salary: £70,000 – 80,000 per year

Requirements

  • Strong enterprise networking background
  • Commercial Python experience
  • Hands‑on Ansible experience
  • Routing and switching knowledge
  • Experience automating network infrastructure
  • Comfortable working in project environments
  • Strong troubleshooting and problem‑solving skills
  • Good communication and stakeholder engagement skills
  • Desirable: Cisco enterprise networking
  • Desirable: Network APIs and REST APIs
  • Desirable: Git or version control systems
  • Desirable: Linux administration
  • Desirable: Infrastructure as Code
  • Desirable: NetBox
  • Desirable: Terraform
  • Desirable: Data centre networking

Responsibilities

  • Develop and maintain network automation solutions using Python
  • Automate network configuration and deployment using Ansible
  • Work alongside Network Consultants on enterprise projects
  • Build and improve infrastructure automation workflows
  • Support enterprise networking and infrastructure transformation projects
  • Produce reusable automation scripts and playbooks
  • Work across customer environments to improve operational efficiency
  • Collaborate with technical teams on project delivery and innovation

Technologies

  • Ansible
  • Cloud
  • Cisco
  • Git
  • Support
  • Linux
  • Network
  • Python
  • REST
  • Terraform

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We are a specialist network engineering consultancy focused on project delivery across enterprise networking, data centre and cloud environments. We place a strong emphasis on automation, modern infrastructure and customer delivery. This is a project‑focused role based in London with hybrid working, averaging 2–3 days per week in the office. We offer up to £75,000 basic salary, a 10% annual bonus, strong technical progression and the opportunity to work on technically challenging enterprise automation projects alongside experienced consultants and architects.

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Posted: July 19th, 2026