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Automation Architect – Kubernetes / GitOps / CNF
Contract Duration: 3 Months
Location: Remote, UK
Engagement Type: Contract
About the Role
We are looking for an experienced Automation Architect to join a 3-month engagement focused on designing, implementing and documenting automated deployment and testing capabilities across a Kubernetes-based, multi-vendor environment.
The successful candidate will be a highly hands-on technical professional with strong expertise across Kubernetes, Helm, ArgoCD, GitLab CI/CD and automation scripting. You will be responsible for developing and improving GitOps-based deployment pipelines, automating the deployment and validation of Cloud-Native Network Functions (CNFs), and establishing robust automated test frameworks.
This role will suit someone who can operate at both architecture and implementation level — able to define the right technical approach, but equally comfortable writing Helm configurations, GitLab pipelines, ArgoCD applications, Kubernetes manifests and automation scripts.
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You will work across multiple teams and technologies, helping to establish consistent automation practices and ensuring that deployment and test pipelines are reliable, repeatable and well documented.
Key Responsibilities
GitOps & CI/CD Automation
- Design, develop and maintain end-to-end GitOps-based deployment pipelines.
- Build and manage deployment workflows using Helm, ArgoCD and GitLab CI/CD / GitLab Runner.
- Develop reusable Helm charts, templates and configuration patterns for Kubernetes deployments.
- Configure and maintain ArgoCD applications, projects and GitOps workflows.
- Develop GitLab CI/CD pipelines covering build, deployment, configuration, testing and validation activities.
- Establish appropriate approaches to environment configuration, secrets, versioning and release management.
- Troubleshoot and optimise existing CI/CD and GitOps pipelines.
- Identify opportunities to improve deployment reliability, repeatability and automation coverage.
Kubernetes & CNF Automation
- Automate deployment and lifecycle management of Kubernetes-based Cloud-Native Network Functions (CNFs).
- Work with technologies such as F5 BIG-IP Next for Kubernetes, or equivalent Kubernetes-based network/CNF platforms.
- Integrate Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs) into automated deployment and configuration workflows.
- Manage the relationship between CRD-based resources and Helm-managed platform components.
- Develop deployment patterns that support repeatable and consistent CNF installation, configuration and upgrades.
- Validate successful CNF deployments through automated health checks and functional testing.
- Investigate and resolve deployment failures across Kubernetes, Helm, ArgoCD and CNF components.
- Ensure automation is designed with maintainability, scalability and operational support in mind.
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Automated Testing
- Design and implement automated test strategies for deployment and CI/CD pipelines.
- Develop automated test scripts and test-case suites using Python, Bash or similar scripting.
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