Network Automation Engineer

Our client, a leading global supplier for IT services, requires experienced Network Automation Engineers to be based at their client’s offices in Manchester or London, UK

This is a hybrid role – you can work remotely in the UK and attend the Manchester or London office 12 days per month.

This is a 6 month temporary contract to start asap

Day rate:
Competitive Market rate

Our Client is seeking an experienced Network Automation Engineer with strong hands‑on expertise in Net Brain to accelerate the automation of network incident diagnostics, evidence collection and operational workflows. The role will work alongside Network Operations, engineering, tooling and service‑management teams to convert repeatable troubleshooting knowledge into secure, reusable and auditable automation.

• Analyse incident, alert and service‑management data to identify and prioritise automation opportunities.
• Design, build, test and deploy Net Brain PDAs, Runbooks, Qapps, Data Views, Dynamic Maps, Network Intents and associated templates.
• Translate existing playbooks, standard operating procedures and senior‑engineer troubleshooting practices into deterministic automation workflows.
• Configure triggered and interactive diagnostic workflows for incidents and monitored events, with clear guardrails, approvals and exception handling.
• Integrate Net Brain with Service Now, DX Net Ops Spectrum and other monitoring, observability and orchestration platforms using supported APIs and integration patterns.
• Automate collection of device state, topology, paths, configurations, logs and relevant telemetry, and make outputs available within the incident workflow.
• Work with CMDB and inventory teams to validate device, service, dependency and configuration‑item data required for reliable correlation and routing.
• Develop pre‑change and post‑change validation, configuration‑drift and compliance checks where prioritised by the product owner.
• Partner with L1, L2 and L3 network teams to validate diagnostic logic across representative incidents, vendors and technologies.
• Apply secure engineering, change management, maker‑checker, testing, rollback, access‑control and audit requirements expected in a regulated financial‑services environment.
• Produce design documentation, support procedures, test evidence, operational metrics and knowledge‑transfer material.

• Strong hands‑on experience administering and engineering solutions on the Net Brain platform in a large, complex enterprise environment.
• Demonstrable delivery of Net Brain automation using PDA, Dynamic Maps, Runbooks, Qapps, Data Views and Network Intent.
• Strong network engineering fundamentals, including TCP/IP, routing and switching, BGP, OSPF, VLANs, MPLS, VPNs, NAT, ACLs, DNS, DHCP and load‑balancing concepts.
• Practical troubleshooting experience across multi‑vendor network estates such as Cisco, Juniper, Arista, Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks or F5.
• Experience integrating network platforms with ITSM, monitoring or observability tools, preferably Service Now and DX Net Ops Spectrum.
• Ability to interpret alarms, telemetry, configurations, routing tables, logs and packet or path information to develop reliable diagnostic logic.
• Working knowledge of APIs, JSON, regular expressions and automation or scripting technologies such as Python and Ansible.
• Experience with the complete engineering lifecycle: requirements, design, build, peer review, test, deployment, monitoring, support and controlled rollback.
• Understanding of CMDB/CI quality, service dependency mapping and their impact on event correlation and automated routing.
• Strong analytical, documentation and stakeholder‑management skills, with the ability to…