Autonomous Network Automation Engineer

Capgemini; Newbury; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Digital learning platform access

Job summary

Capgemini is seeking an Automation & Platform Engineer in a hybrid role based near Newbury, with a focus on building the execution layer for autonomous network operations. You will design, implement, and operate automation workflows, orchestration pipelines, and platform services to safely trigger network actions.

You'll work with Ansible, Terraform, Python, Kubernetes, Docker, and CI/CD, integrating with vendor APIs and TMF Open APIs while ensuring security, policy control, and auditability

Qualifications

• Experience in network automation, platform engineering, DevOps, cloud engineering, or telecom automation.
• Strong hands-on experience with Ansible, Terraform, Python, REST APIs, and automation pipelines.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, microservices, CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement automation workflows for autonomous network use cases.
• Build intent-to-configuration pipelines that translate validated intents into network actions.
• Develop reusable automation playbooks, templates, modules, and orchestration workflows.
• Implement automation using tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Python, Kubernetes, Docker, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Support integration with vendor EMS/NMS, SDN controllers, cloud platforms, OSS, inventory, assurance, and orchestration systems.
• Build secure API-based execution frameworks using REST APIs, TMF Open APIs, NETCONF/RESTCONF, gRPC, Graph APIs, and vendor-specific APIs.
• Implement execution guardrails including policy validation, approval gates, rollback mechanisms, dry-run checks, and audit logging.
• Develop platform capabilities for AI/LLM-driven agents to safely trigger network actions.
• Support deployment and operation of AI platforms such as Vertex AI or similar.
• Integrate with vector databases, graph APIs, data pipelines, MCP servers, and automation backends.
• Support Kubernetes-based deployment of automation services, agent services, APIs, and microservices.
• Implement infrastructure-as-code for platform environments and network automation resources.
• Ensure automation platforms meet security, compliance, availability, observability, and operational resilience requirements.

Skills

Ansible

Terraform

Python

REST APIs

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD

Automation

Intent-to-config

RBAC

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Capgemini is seeking an Automation & Platform Engineer in a hybrid role based near Newbury, with a focus on building the execution layer for autonomous network operations. You will design, implement, and operate automation workflows, orchestration pipelines, and platform services to safely trigger network actions.

You'll work with Ansible, Terraform, Python, Kubernetes, Docker, and CI/CD, integrating with vendor APIs and TMF Open APIs while ensuring security, policy control, and auditability