Network Automation Engineer

Network Automation Engineer — IP Fabric, Ansible & Nautobot, £60,000–£75,000, fully remote

£60,000–£75,000 | Fully Remote | UK Wide

Our client is a specialist network consultancy with a growing automation practice. They're looking for a Network Automation Engineer to join the team — someone who can build, maintain, and operationalise network automation workflows across enterprise customer environments.

IP Fabric, Ansible, Nautobot, Jinja, and Python are the core stack. If you've been building network automation for real — source of truth, intent-based networking, and operationalising it at scale — this is the role.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING

• Design and build network automation workflows using Ansible, Nautobot, and Jinja templating

• Implement and maintain IP Fabric as a network source of truth and visibility platform

• Develop Python scripts to automate network operations, configuration, and validation

• Work with customers to operationalise network automation — moving from manual processes to scalable, repeatable workflows

• Maintain and evolve the source of truth — ensuring network inventory and state data is accurate and trusted

• Contribute to automation ops — monitoring, alerting, and continuous improvement of automated workflows

TECH STACK

• IP Fabric

• Ansible

• Nautobot

• Jinja templating

• Python

• Source of truth / intent-based networking

• Network automation ops

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

• Hands-on network automation experience — you've built and delivered this in production, not just in a lab

• Strong Ansible background — playbooks, roles, and enterprise-scale automation

• Nautobot experience — network source of truth, IPAM, and DCIM workflows

• IP Fabric experience — network discovery, visibility, and assurance

• Python scripting capability — comfortable writing automation tooling from scratch

• Jinja templating for configuration generation

• Solid underlying network knowledge — you need to understand what you're automating

• Based anywhere in the UK — fully remote role

THE PACKAGE

• £60,000–£75,000 base salary depending on experience

• Fully remote — UK wide

• Specialist network consultancy with an enterprise customer base

WHY THIS ROLE STANDS OUT

• Network automation is the direction of travel for the entire industry — get ahead of it properly

• IP Fabric, Nautobot, and Ansible together is a rare and highly marketable combination

• Fully remote with no office requirement

• £60k–£75k range — genuine flex for the right level of experience

• Consultancy environment — exposure to multiple customer environments and architectures, not just one estate

• A business investing seriously in automation capability — you'll help shape how the practice grows

Network automation engineer with IP Fabric, Ansible, and Nautobot experience? Let's talk.

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