Senior Network Automation Architect & Migration Lead

Reed Technology; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 119,000 - 156,000; Full time

Job summary

Reed Technology in Birmingham is recruiting for a Network Automation Transformation Lead to drive an automation-first migration of legacy data centre environments. The role focuses on defining migration approaches, governing automation standards, and delivering scalable, automated network changes.

The candidate will lead large-scale migrations, build and govern automation frameworks, and collaborate with architects, engineers and programme teams to ensure repeatable, auditable delivery.

Qualifications

• Experience leading large-scale network or data centre migrations.
• Proven ability to design and govern automation-led deployment strategies.
• Experience building and validating automation frameworks for infra delivery.

Responsibilities

• Lead automation-driven network migration strategies and approaches.
• Define and govern automation standards, deployment methods and ways of working.
• Establish testing, validation and rollback frameworks for large-scale migrations.

Skills

Migration leadership

Automation frameworks

Governance

CI/CD

Networks & DC

Collaboration

Tools

Ansible

Python

Terraform

Git

Cisco Nexus

EVPN/VXLAN

Job description

Reed Technology in Birmingham is recruiting for a Network Automation Transformation Lead to drive an automation-first migration of legacy data centre environments. The role focuses on defining migration approaches, governing automation standards, and delivering scalable, automated network changes.

The candidate will lead large-scale migrations, build and govern automation frameworks, and collaborate with architects, engineers and programme teams to ensure repeatable, auditable delivery.