Network Automation Engineer

Overview

As part of the Colo Infrastructure team at G-Research, you design and build automation for high-performance, low-latency network infrastructure. You’ll develop IaC-driven pipelines and self-service tooling to accelerate deployment and reliability. You collaborate with network, platform, and security teams to deliver scalable, resilient systems and contribute to incident response and on-call reliability. This role offers impact in a fast-paced, research-led environment that values methodical execution and continuous improvement.

Pay / Benefits

• competitive compensation with discretionary bonus
• lunch provided
• 30 days’ annual leave
• 9% company pension contributions
• comprehensive healthcare and life assurance
• cycle-to-work scheme

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve automation frameworks for network provisioning and lifecycle management
• Develop infrastructure-as-code solutions using Python, Ansible, Terraform and Jinja2
• Integrate network automation into CI/CD pipelines for reliable deployments
• Create APIs and self-service tooling for engineering teams
• Implement observability and telemetry for performance and reliability
• Collaborate with network, platform and security teams to deliver scalable systems
• Contribute to incident response and production reliability
• On-call responsibilities for critical parts of the infrastructure

Key requirements

• Experience managing high-performance, low-latency, scalable network infrastructure
• Proficiency in Python and general engineering fundamentals (testing, VCS, CI/CD)
• Experience with Ansible, Terraform and Jinja2
• Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes
• Exposure to monitoring/observability/telemetry in distributed systems
• Pragmatic problem solver, able to handle ambiguity and take ownership
• Collaborative in fast-paced engineering teams
• Deep networking fundamentals; ideally financial markets networking experience
• Experience leveraging AI tools like Claude Code

• Pragmatic problem solving
• Collaboration in fast-paced teams
• Ownership and accountability
• Python
• Ansible
• Terraform

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