NineTech
Network Automation Consultant
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Senior Network Automation Consultant
6 Month Contract
£780 Per Day
UK REMOTE - Some Travel
Are you an experienced Network Automation professional who enjoys solving complex technical challenges, engaging with clients, and leading the delivery of enterprise automation solutions?
We're looking for a Senior Network Automation Consultant to work directly with enterprise customers, helping them define their automation strategy, build technology roadmaps, and deliver scalable automation platforms across complex multi-vendor environments.
This is a highly consultative role where you'll combine deep technical expertise with leadership, architecture, and customer engagement.
What You'll Do
As a trusted technical advisor, you'll:
- Partner with customers to understand their business and technical challenges, translating requirements into practical automation strategies.
- Develop automation roadmaps that align with clients' operational goals and digital transformation initiatives.
- Lead technical workshops, architecture discussions, and discovery sessions with stakeholders ranging from engineers to senior leadership.
- Design enterprise-scale automation solutions covering provisioning, configuration management, compliance, validation, and operational workflows.
- Provide technical leadership throughout project delivery, directing and mentoring engineers while ensuring engineering excellence and best practice.
- Guide customers through the adoption of Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, GitOps, and modern NetDevOps methodologies.
- Define automation standards, reusable frameworks, and reference architectures.
- Present technical solutions, documentation, and implementation plans to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Collaborate with internal teams to ensure successful project delivery from discovery through to production.
- Act as a trusted consultant, identifying opportunities for continuous improvement and helping customers maximize the value of their automation investments.
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Technical Skills & Experience
We're looking for someone with 10+ years of network and infrastructure automation experience, including expertise in:
🌐 Enterprise Networking
- Cisco, Arista, and Juniper
- NX-OS, IOS-XE, EOS, and Junos
- BGP, OSPF, EVPN, SDN overlays, and WAN architectures
⚙️ Infrastructure as Code
- NetBox as a Source of Truth
- Git, YAML, and Jinja2
- Version control, branching strategies, pull requests, and code reviews
🤖 Automation & Orchestration
- Python
- Ansible (Core & Automation Platform)
- Terraform
- Itential
- StackStorm
- AWX
🔗 APIs & Integration
- REST and GraphQL APIs
- NETCONF, RESTCONF, and YANG
- HashiCorp Vault or CyberArk
- NetBox and Infoblox
- Artifact repositories
🧪 Testing & Validation
- Test-driven automation
- Robot Framework
- pytest
- Cisco pyATS & Genie
- Arista ANTA
- Molecule
- Automated pre- and post-change validation integrated into CI/CD pipelines
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🚀 DevOps
- CI/CD pipeline design
- Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenShift
- GitOps
- Documentation as Code
- Observability, structured logging, and auditability
Desirable Experience
You'll have experience with:
- Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP)
- Multi-vendor abstraction frameworks
- Event-driven automation and self-healing infrastructure
- ServiceNow, Jira, and BMC integrations
- Deployment validation and automated governance gates
- AI-assisted development using Large Language Models (LLMs) for specification-driven development, code generation, and automated testing
What Makes You Successful
You'll be someone who:
- Builds trusted relationships with customers and stakeholders.
- Is comfortable presenting technical solutions to engineering teams, architects, and executive audiences.
- Can balance strategic consulting with hands-on technical delivery.
- Leads by example, coaching, and directing engineers to deliver high-quality outcomes.
- Thinks beyond technology, helping customers define long-term automation strategies rather than simply delivering projects.
- Enjoys solving challenging problems and continually improving the way enterprise networks are designed and operated.
If you're passionate about shaping the future of network automation, influencing customer strategy, and leading the delivery of innovative automation solutions, we'd love to hear from you.
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