At a Glance
- Tasks: Join a team to automate networking in a cutting-edge private cloud environment.
- Company: Leading global semiconductor and software design innovator based in Cambridge.
- Benefits: Competitive pay of £770/day, hybrid work model, and opportunity for career growth.
- Other info: Dynamic role with a focus on innovation and collaboration in a tech-savvy environment.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by developing automation solutions in a greenfield project.
- Qualifications: Experience with OpenStack networking, Python, Ansible, and Terraform is essential.
The predicted salary is between 63000 - 77000 £ per year.
Join a leading global semiconductor and software design innovator as a Private Cloud Network Automation Engineer.
Location: Cambridge
Contract: ASAP (6 months)
Pay Rates: Umbrella Rate- £770/day (via a Hays approved umbrella company).
Work mode: Hybrid (2 days on-site a week)
This is a fantastic opportunity to join a newly formed Private Cloud team. We are responsible for the design, deployment and operations of a new greenfield on-prem private cloud based on OpenStack. The Private Cloud Network Automation Engineer will develop the software, automation and infrastructure as code that will act as the glue to seamlessly provision networking capabilities within the OpenStack platform and integration with the underlying fabric. The role sits at the intersection of networking and software engineering and will help ensure day one operations are fully automated, scalable and consistent.
Responsibilities:
- Help establish zero-touch provisioning and automated network lifecycle by building reusable automation modules using Python, Ansible, APIs and Terraform tooling to automate the provisioning, configuration and integration of OpenStack networking services Neutron, OVN and ML2 with the network fabric.
- Develop CI/CD pipelines for network configuration and changes.
- Implement automated testing and validation of network changes to ensure changes are version controlled, peer reviewed, tested and auditable.
- Integrate network automation with source control, IPAM, inventory and other platform systems, developing automated configuration compliance and drift detection.
- Develop telemetry and observability integrations and dashboards to enable easy debugging, solving and tuning opportunities.
- Work with compute, Storage and Kubernetes engineers to automate end-to-end network workflows.
Required Skills and Experience:
- Understanding of OpenStack networking services such as Neutron, OVN and ML2; and Data Centre networking principles BGP, EVPN, VXLAN and Leaf-Spine architectures.
- Strong network engineering background with hands-on experience automating Cisco NX-OS, Arista EOS or equivalent network platforms.
- Proven Python/Ansible/Terraform experience to build repeatable software-defined network automation, developing REST APIs and the application of Infrastructure as Code principles and practices.
- Experience using Git-based development and CI/CD tools and pipelines.
- Good Linux skills.
“Nice To Have” Skills and Experience:
- Experience building automation for large-scale HPC or cloud infrastructure.
- Net Box or similar source-of-truth/IPAM platforms.
- Cisco Nexus and/or Arista Cloud Vision Dashboard APIs.
- Automated network testing frameworks.
- Prometheus, Grafana and Open Telemetry or similar Automated compliance and configuration validation.
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