Network Automation Engineer - WAN & Edge for AI Infra

Mistral AI; Greater London; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

Relocation support

Meal and transportation allowances

Job summary

Mistral AI is seeking a Software Engineer, Network Automation - WAN & Edge, to design, automate, and operate resilient connectivity across data centers, cloud environments, and external networks. You will tackle routing, firewalls, traffic engineering, and production troubleshooting in a hands-on role.

The ideal candidate has deep WAN/edge networking experience, external BGP production exposure, and strong software-engineering fundamentals, with a readiness to work across Go and related

Qualifications

• Hands-on WAN and edge networking across internet connectivity and data-center interconnects.
• Experience taking external BGP designs from whiteboard to production and debugging during incidents.
• Experience integrating stateful firewalls, NAT, asymmetric routing, and redundant edge designs.
• Experience building/operating production network automation using REST, NETCONF, gNMI/OpenConfig, Ansible, or Terraform.
• Strong software-engineering fundamentals and willingness to become productive in Go.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve resilient inter-site, cloud, and internet connectivity for large-scale AI infrastructure.
• Own external BGP policy and traffic engineering at the edge, including route filtering and capacity planning.
• Build API-driven automation for edge routing, firewalls, VPNs, carrier connectivity, and network segmentation.
• Coordinate with carriers, cloud providers, colocation partners, and vendors on design and incident escalation.
• Design safe change workflows with automated validation, staged rollouts, observability, rollback, and recovery.
• Participate in on-call rotation, troubleshoot WAN/edge incidents, and derive lasting improvements.
• Review designs and code, and raise network engineering quality across the organization.

Skills

WAN networking

BGP

Network automation

REST APIs

NETCONF/OpenConfig

Ansible

Terraform

Go

Tools

FortiGate

FortiManager

Kubernetes

Job description

Mistral AI is seeking a Software Engineer, Network Automation - WAN & Edge, to design, automate, and operate resilient connectivity across data centers, cloud environments, and external networks. You will tackle routing, firewalls, traffic engineering, and production troubleshooting in a hands-on role.

The ideal candidate has deep WAN/edge networking experience, external BGP production exposure, and strong software-engineering fundamentals, with a readiness to work across Go and related