Network Automation Engineer
Location
Staines upon Thames, Surrey | United Kingdom
Job description
About Our Client
My 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.
Job Description
The 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
The Successful Applicant
To 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
What's on 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.
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