Hybrid Network DevOps Engineer: Automate & Modernize

MBDA UK Limited; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 33,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company bonus Up to £2,500 (based on公司

Pension: up to 14%

Overtime: paid overtime

Flexi Leave: Up to 15 additional days

Flexible working

Enhanced parental leave

Facilities: subsidised meals, free car

Job summary

MBDA UK is seeking a Network DevOps Engineer to automate and modernize our software-driven network infrastructure. You will design and maintain software tools, pipelines and data models to manage both physical and virtual networks, applying best practices in testing, version control, and modular design.

You will work in a hybrid environment with a strong emphasis on collaboration, developing playbooks and roles for network configuration, and upskilling team members in software engineering

Qualifications

• Advanced Python and software engineering concepts (OOP, design patterns).
• Strong testing and testable, maintainable code in Python.
• Experience with REST and GraphQL APIs (Django REST, FastAPI, Pydantic).
• Data structures, serialization, templating (JSON, YAML, Jinja2).
• DevOps, Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban).
• Version control with Git and GitLab; CI/CD pipelines in GitLab.
• Ansible for network automation; familiarity with networking basics.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain production-grade software and tools for network infrastructure.
• Champion software engineering best practices: code reviews, unit testing, clean code.
• Establish automated testing strategy and select tools/frameworks.
• Develop data models, plugins, and automation jobs to manage network SOA.
• Build and manage CI/CD pipelines to automate testing and deployment.
• Collaborate on Ansible playbooks for network configuration; improve reliability.
• Mentor and upskill team members in software engineering.

Skills

Python

Python testing

REST APIs

GraphQL

Git

GitLab

CI/CD

Ansible

Networking basics

Django REST Framework

FastAPI

Pydantic

OOP

Agile/Scrum/Kanban

Tools

Nautobot

OpenShift

PyATS

Cisco ACI

Jinja2

Kubernetes

Job description

MBDA UK is seeking a Network DevOps Engineer to automate and modernize our software-driven network infrastructure. You will design and maintain software tools, pipelines and data models to manage both physical and virtual networks, applying best practices in testing, version control, and modular design.

You will work in a hybrid environment with a strong emphasis on collaboration, developing playbooks and roles for network configuration, and upskilling team members in software engineering