Lead Network Architect – IaC, GitOps & Cisco Automation

Randstad Technologies Recruitment; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

Randstad Technologies Recruitment seeks a highly hands-on Lead Network Architect to eliminate manual network configurations and drive Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) in production Cisco data centres.

You will translate low-level designs into automation workflows and build robust CI/CD pipelines for mission-critical changes, with a focus on governance and automation across enterprise platforms.

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in Cisco NX-OS, VXLAN BGP-EVPN, vPC and NDFC.
• IaC experience and automation tooling.
• Hands-on scripting with Python, YAML and JSON; experience with Ansible.

Responsibilities

• Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines for automated network changes and migrations.
• Champion GitOps with strict gates and automated rollbacks.
• Integrate automation across NDFC, NetBox, ServiceNow and Ansible Platform.

Skills

Cisco NX-OS

VXLAN BGP-EVPN

vPC

Cisco NDFC

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Python (REST APIs)

YAML

JSON

Ansible

GitOps

CI/CD pipelines

Tools

AAP (Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform)

Job description

Randstad Technologies Recruitment seeks a highly hands-on Lead Network Architect to eliminate manual network configurations and drive Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) in production Cisco data centres.

You will translate low-level designs into automation workflows and build robust CI/CD pipelines for mission-critical changes, with a focus on governance and automation across enterprise platforms.