Large-Scale Network Automation & Observability Engineer

Arcus Search; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

30 days annual leave

9% pension contribution

Private healthcare

Job summary

Arcus Search is partnering with a leading quantitative technology firm to hire an experienced Network Engineer to own and evolve a large-scale, highly automated network environment. The role focuses on networking engineering, observability and reliability across Cisco and Arista platforms.

You will design, implement and monitor scalable datacentre networks, contribute to Infrastructure-as-Code and CI/CD for network provisioning, and drive security, performance and WAN routing initiatives

Qualifications

• Experience in enterprise or large-scale networking environments.
• Proficiency with Cisco IOS, IOS-XR, NX-OS, and Arista EOS.
• Strong knowledge of BGP, OSPF, EVPN, VXLAN and MPLS.
• Experience applying SRE, observability and automation principles to networking.
• Python and/or Ansible experience, ideally alongside Jenkins, Git or IaC.

Responsibilities

• Own the reliability, performance, availability and security of network infrastructure
• Design and maintain large-scale datacentre networking across Cisco and Arista environments
• Develop network observability.
• Contribute to Infrastructure-as-Code and CI/CD practices for network provisioning
• Work across WAN connectivity, including MPLS and Segment Routing

Skills

Enterprise networking

Observability

Automation

SRE principles

Python

IaC

Tools

Cisco IOS

IOS-XR

NX-OS

Arista EOS

BGP

OSPF

MPLS

VXLAN

Ansible

Jenkins

Git

Job description

Arcus Search is partnering with a leading quantitative technology firm to hire an experienced Network Engineer to own and evolve a large-scale, highly automated network environment. The role focuses on networking engineering, observability and reliability across Cisco and Arista platforms.

You will design, implement and monitor scalable datacentre networks, contribute to Infrastructure-as-Code and CI/CD for network provisioning, and drive security, performance and WAN routing initiatives