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    Network Automation Engineer

    £65000 - £80000 per annum bonus and benefits
     

    Job Description

    Network Automation Engineer

    An opportunity with a leading financial services company for a Network Automation Engineer to work with the solutions team. The team focuses on digital banking, payments, infrastructure, data management and technology that enhances cyber security, and risk and capital management.

    As a Network Automation Engineer you will be involved in developing scripts and full-stack automation to interface with tools & systems of record APIs and read/write data across a wide array of network & security technologies. The team are looking for someone with commercial experience of networking and automation that has direct scripting experience (e.g. Python/Ansible).

    The role:

    • Hands-on configuration of network and security devices & tools to engineer new services into production and execute change in the environment
    • Working with support teams, lines of business and 3rd parties that the team connect to in order to design & build end-to-end solutions that balance business, security, availability and resiliency requirements
    • Eliciting, analyzing and documenting technical application and service requirements
    • Maintaining designs patterns and providing feedback into architectural standards
    • Active participation in the change management process
    • Managing stakeholder requirements across projects and ad-hoc consulting
    • 3rd level escalation for troubleshooting issues on the production network
    • Identifying and managing the mitigation of risks within the environment
    • Implementation and day 1 support of configuration changes
    • Ability to interact with a wide range of stakeholders

    This is a permanent role that operates on a hybrid work set-up and has offices in Camberley, Bromley and Chester.

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