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# Network Automation Engineer

- **Company:** G-Research
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Salary:** £77,248.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Continuous Integration, Distributed Systems, Jinja (Template Engine), Python (Programming Language), Network Architecture, Networking Basics, Ansible, Systems Integration, Low Latency, Terraform, Open Network Automation Platform, Software Version Control, Docker
- **Published:** July 17, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5804894235

## About the Role

We're looking for a skilled network engineer with technical experience of managing high-performance, low-latency, scalable and resilient network infrastructure solutions.

The ideal candidate will have the following skills and experience:

 * Confident with Python and solid engineering fundamentals across testing, version control and CI/CD
 * Experience with infrastructure-as-code and automation tools such as Ansible, Terraform and Jinja2; also must have experience leveraging AI tools, such as Claude Code
 * Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes
 * Exposure to monitoring, observability or telemetry in distributed systems
 * Pragmatic problem solver who can operate in ambiguity and take ownership
 * Comfortable working in collaborative, fast-paced engineering teams
 * Deep understanding of networking fundamentals and ideally experience in network engineer in financial markets

## Description

G-Research is going through an exciting period of growth in our colocation and low-latency platform. As part of our transformation, we are looking for a highly-skilled network automation engineer to join our Colo Infrastructure team.

The team manage a highly available colocation network. You will design and build automation solutions that enable rapid deployment of new infrastructure and efficient management of existing infra whilst maintaining reliable operations.

Key responsibilities of the role include:

 * Building and evolving automation frameworks for network provisioning and lifecycle management
 * Developing infrastructure-as-code solutions using Python, Ansible, Terraform and Jinja2
 * Integrating network automation into CI/CD pipelines for reliable, repeatable deployments
 * Creating APIs and self-service tooling for engineering teams
 * Implementing observability and telemetry solutions for performance and reliability
 * Partnering with network, platform and security teams to deliver resilient, scalable systems
 * Contributing to incident response and production reliability
 * On-call responsibilities for the most critical parts of the infrastructure


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