Low-Latency Network Automation Engineer

G-Research; Greater London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Lunch provided

Barista bar

30 days annual leave

9% company pension contributions

Healthcare and life assurance

Cycle-to-work scheme

Monthly company events

Job summary

G-Research is seeking a highly-skilled network automation engineer to join our Colo Infrastructure team in London. You will design and build automation solutions that enable rapid deployment of new infrastructure while keeping operations reliable.

The role focuses on Python-based automation, IaC with Ansible, Terraform and Jinja2, and integrating automation into CI/CD pipelines. You will contribute to incident response and on-call tasks within a collaborative, fast-paced team.

Qualifications

• Proficient Python with testing, version control and CI/CD practices.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (Ansible, Terraform) and AI tooling (Claude Code).
• Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes in distributed systems.
• Exposure to monitoring/observability/telemetry in large-scale platforms.
• Pragmatic, ownership-driven problem solving in ambiguous environments.
• Strong collaboration in fast-paced engineering teams.
• Deep networking fundamentals; finance-domain experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve automation frameworks for network provisioning and lifecycle management.
• Develop infrastructure-as-code solutions using Python, Ansible, Terraform and Jinja2.
• Integrate network automation into CI/CD pipelines for reliable deployments.
• Create APIs and self-service tooling for engineering teams.
• Implement observability and telemetry for performance and reliability.
• Partner with network, platform and security teams to deliver scalable systems.
• Contribute to incident response and production reliability; participate in on-call rota.

Skills

Python

CI/CD

Testing

Version control

Networking fundamentals

AI tools

Pragmatic problem solving

Collaborative teamwork

Networking in finance

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

Jinja2

Claude Code

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

G-Research is seeking a highly-skilled network automation engineer to join our Colo Infrastructure team in London. You will design and build automation solutions that enable rapid deployment of new infrastructure while keeping operations reliable.

The role focuses on Python-based automation, IaC with Ansible, Terraform and Jinja2, and integrating automation into CI/CD pipelines. You will contribute to incident response and on-call tasks within a collaborative, fast-paced team.