IP Automamtion Engineer

Our client designs, builds, and operates dedicated, private mobile core networks for enterprises. Their service enables other companies to deploy their own connectivity products and services without needing to become full-fledged telecommunications operators.

IP Automamtion Engineer

We offer:

• Atractive salary (b2b contract)
• Fully remote work

Responsibilities:

• First 3 months:
  • Get to know the estate at a working level: the sites, the role of each device, how services are separated from each other, and how the existing tooling fits together.
  • Learn the change workflow end to end and run changes with it under review: prepare, pre-check, stage, apply, verify.
  • Take ownership of parts of the existing tooling: fix defects, add tests, improve error handling and documentation.
  • Extend the automated checks so that common mistakes are caught before a change reaches a device.
  • Help keep the inventory and the source of truth accurate and automate the reconciliation between them and the live network.
  • Contribute to monitoring and telemetry: onboarding devices and building checks that answer real operational questions.
• Ongoing responsibilities:
  • Build automated procedures for the setup and configuration of network elements.
  • Design, write and maintain automation for configuration management, change delivery, validation and reporting.
  • Prepare and run network changes through the tooling, following the review and approval rules.
  • Integrate network devices and platforms through their APIs and command-line interfaces in a consistent, safe way.
  • Keep configuration backups, change history and documentation current.
  • Investigate faults together with the team and with application owners and turn recurring investigations into tools.
  • Support the build-out of new sites and services with templates and code rather than one-off manual work.
  • Find repetitive manual work and remove it.
• What good looks like after six months
  • The automated setup and configuration of network elements is deployed and in use.
  • You run routine changes on your own, end to end, through the tooling.
  • You own at least one tool or workflow, including its tests and documentation.
  • The rest of the team relies on something you built.

Requirements:

• 2-4 years in a technical role with regular, hands-on scripting or software development; network automation, DevOps or infrastructure engineering is a strong fit.
• Solid programming skills, preferably in Python: readable, structured code, proper error handling, and working with structured data and remote interfaces.
• Comfortable with Git and a review-based way of working: small changes, clear messages, reading and improving other people's code.
• Experience automating work against APIs and command-line interfaces of remote systems; at home on the Linux command line.
• Working networking fundamentals: IP addressing and subnetting, VLANs, static and dynamic routing, firewalls and NAT, VPNs.
• A careful attitude to production: you check before you change, you verify after, and you say when something is outside your knowledge.
• Very good English skills.
• Hands-on experience with enterprise or carrier-grade routers, switches or firewalls from at least one major vendor.
• Experience with a network source of truth, inventory or IP address management system.
• Exposure to configuration templating, infrastructure as code or network automation frameworks.
• Experience writing tests for automation code or working with CI pipelines.
• Exposure to monitoring and telemetry: metrics collection, time-series data, dashboards and alerting.
• A networking certification at associate level or above, from any vendor, completed or in progress.

Additional advantages:

• Exposure to multi-tenant networking: separate routing and security contexts on shared hardware.
• Familiarity with containers and public cloud networking.
• Experience using AI coding assistants with care - reviewing and testing what they produce before it reaches production.
• Interest in mobile core and telecom networks; no prior telecom experience is required.