Overview
Infrastructure Network Automation Engineer – hackajob, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
hackajob is collaborating with NatWest to connect exceptional tech professionals for this role. Join us as an Infrastructure Network Automation Engineer. You’ll collaborate in building solutions for public and private cloud environments, engineering infrastructure to comply with security, resilience, sustainability and operational requirements with observability and guardrails built in.
This is a chance to work with colleagues across the bank to share engineering best practices, allowing you to provide thought leadership while developing solutions.
What you'll do
* As an Infrastructure Network Automation Engineer, you’ll contribute to and manage the selection, creation and maintenance of technologies required to meet the needs of our customers and colleagues, strategic targets and architecture outcomes, along with developing products using modern engineering practices and tools. You’ll collaborate with colleagues across several domains to develop solutions to meet their requirements, identify opportunities for automation, conduct experiments on new ideas, and integrate successful solutions into a network-specific tooling and observability platform.
* As a key member of the team, you’ll drive innovation and efficiency of our Network Engineering capability. This includes designing, developing and implementing automated solutions that enhance network performance, reliability, operational visibility, troubleshooting, and agility.
* Collaborate with Product Owners and respective SMEs to develop product roadmaps and manage the lifecycle of the team's products; support engineered products to respond to customer feedback, new feature requests, resolve production issues and help customers consume our products.
Additionally, You’ll
* Take a lead role within a team to design and engineer intuitive self-service infrastructure products
* Develop technical skills through continuous learning and development
* Contribute to the delivery of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions
* Build an awareness of design thinking tools and techniques with users in order to improve your product
* Provide operational support for network incidents where your knowledge of the network management products will assist with observability, root cause analysis and resolution
* Work with key vendors in the delivery of the infrastructure services and technology for the product
The skills you'll need
* Experience developing code for use in a large enterprise network managing 5,000+ nodes across multiple vendor technologies as well as automation tooling
* Strong understanding of Agile working practices and toolsets with the ability to create the vision for the Release Train, feature team, platform and domain; hands-on experience in developing CI or CD pipelines using modern tooling and automation practices
* Expertise in software testing methodologies, observability frameworks, and telemetry analysis, leveraging data, system metrics, and user sentiment to drive iterative improvements in solution performance and reliability; solid understanding of public cloud platforms including Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Microsoft Azure
Furthermore, You’ll Need
* Strong knowledge of scripting languages such as Python, Bash or JavaScript, with experience in server-based Python frameworks such as Django, FastAPI and Flash
* Expertise in automation and configuration tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Jinja2, YAML or JSON
* Advanced understanding of API interaction and integration, including consumption and development using protocols such as REST and NETCONF
* An understanding of container application development using Docker and Kubernetes
* An understanding of databases, including relational and non-relational systems like MongoDB, MS SQL and PostgreSQL, and in-memory key/value brokers such as Redis
* Strong grasp of DevOps practices, including Git based workflows, CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code
* A good understanding of network infrastructure and protocols, such as TCP/IP, routing/switching, DNS, HTTP, with excellent collaborative communication skills for articulating technical concepts clearly to stakeholders
Seniority level
* Mid-Senior level
Employment type
* Full-time
Job function
* Engineering and Information Technology
Industries
* Software Development
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