Network Infrastructure Automation Engineer

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Contract: Network Infrastructure Automation Engineer (Part time) Start Date: ASAP (once background checks are completed) Duration: 6 months - 20 hours a week Location: Remote UK. Possible ad-hoc occasional travel during contract Rate: £550-590 a day (Inside IR35 via umbrella solution) Reference: 20463

Immediate contract for an experienced

Network Infrastructure Automation Engineer with In-depth Cisco ACI

expertise to join a Cloud Automation Engineering team. This contract focuses on designing, building, and evolving automation platforms and shared services that reduce manual operational effort and improve scalability across the organisation. You will be a highly autonomous engineer who can take broad direction, leverage existing documentation, and independently drive projects forward while collaborating with a globally distributed team.

Key Responsibilities

Design and implement automation-first solutions to reduce manual toil across engineering teams Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for shared platforms and services Develop reusable automation components for long-term scalability Contribute to and extend automation pipelines and frameworks Automate and manage network infrastructure, including Cisco ACI environments, using IaC principles Enhance internal automation services and transition operational ownership to consuming teams Work independently from high-level requirements and documented frameworks Self-onboard and execute effectively using internal documentation (e.g., Confluence)

Required Skills & Experience

Strong background in

infrastructure automation Deep hands-on experience with

Terraform Experience with

AWS and Azure (Azure preferred) Experience working with

Cisco ACI (Application Centric Infrastructure) , including automation and configuration Proven ability to design and implement

Infrastructure as Code

across compute, cloud, and network domains Experience

delivering automation

as a shared service Hands-on experience with

Ansible Familiarity with

AI-assisted development tools

(e.g., Copilot) Networking People (UK) is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

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Location:
United Kingdom
Job Type:
PartTime
Category:
IT;IT