Senior Network Automation Engineer

Stanford Black Limited; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Market-leading compensation

Engineering-led hedge fund culture

Job summary

Stanford Black Limited in London is seeking a Senior Network Automation Engineer to scale and modernise a cutting-edge on-premise datacentre and research platform. The role focuses on building automation, tooling, and guardrails that deliver safe, repeatable outcomes across high-performance infrastructure.

You’ll bridge networking and software engineering, turning network intent into code-driven automation within an engineering-led environment, delivering measurable improvements in reliability

Qualifications

• Advanced Python with production-grade tooling.
• Go experience preferred for high-performance tooling.
• Strong Ansible expertise and YAML/JSON data models.
• Solid Git workflows and code review discipline.
• Deep Linux networking knowledge and Bash scripting.
• Experience with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana).
• Familiarity with NetBox or Nautobot as source of truth.
• Experience: Docker/Kubernetes orchestration and CI/CD.
• Knowledge of pyATS/NAPALM for network testing/validation.
• Secrets management: Vault and PKI best practices.

Responsibilities

• Architect and evolve the network automation framework for datacentre fabrics.
• Build idempotent automation to provision and operate networks at scale.
• Capture network intent as code with peer review and quality controls.
• Integrate with vendor APIs/SDKs (Arista EOS) to streamline ops.
• Instrument networks with telemetry, alerting and SLO remediation.
• Collaborate with network/platform engineers to turn design into automation.
• Deliver safe, well-tested improvements prioritising reliability.
• Champion NetDevOps practices and knowledge sharing.
• Monitor industry trends and identify practical adoption opportunities.

Skills

Python

Go

Ansible

Git workflows

Linux networking

Bash scripting

pyATS

NAPALM

Docker

Kubernetes

Temporal

Vault

NetBox

Nautobot

Prometheus

Grafana

Arista EOS

Tools

Arista EOS

NetBox

Nautobot

Temporal

pyATS

NAPALM

Docker

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

Vault

PKI

Job description

London | Tech-Led Systematic Hedge Fund | Market-Leading Compensation

A leading, technology-driven systematic hedge fund is seeking a Senior Network Automation Engineer to help scale and modernise a cutting-edge on-premise datacentre and research platform. This is a highly technical role focused on building the automation, tooling, and guardrails that power safe, repeatable outcomes across high-performance infrastructure.

You’ll operate at the intersection of networking and software engineering, playing a key role in transforming network intent into production-grade automation within a fast-moving, engineering-led environment.

The Role

You will design and evolve the network automation ecosystem that underpins the firm’s datacentre fabrics, enabling scalable, resilient infrastructure through code-driven practices.

Key responsibilities include:

• Architecting and enhancing the network automation framework, including source of truth, templating, validation, and change control
• Building idempotent automation to provision and operate datacentre networks at scale
• Capturing network intent as code with strong peer review and quality controls
• Integrating with vendor APIs and SDKs (e.g. Arista EOS) to streamline operations
• Instrumenting networks with telemetry, alerting, and SLO-driven remediation
• Partnering with network and platform engineers to convert design into automated workflows
• Delivering incremental, well-tested improvements that prioritise safety and reliability
• Championing NetDevOps best practices and knowledge sharing across the team
• Monitoring industry trends and identifying opportunities for practical adoption

What We’re Looking For

• Advanced Python skills with experience building production-grade tools and services
• Go experience preferred for high-performance tooling
• Strong Ansible expertise and familiarity with structured data models (YAML/JSON)
• Solid Git workflows including branching, pull requests, and versioning
• Observability experience (Prometheus, Grafana, logging, tracing)
• Familiarity with source-of-truth platforms such as NetBox or Nautobot
• Strong Linux networking knowledge (DNS, DHCP, iptables) and Bash scripting
• Experience with workflow orchestration tools (e.g. Temporal)
• Network validation and testing frameworks such as pyATS or NAPALM
• Containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Secure configuration and secrets management (Vault, PKI best practices)
• Exposure to datacentre fabrics, QoS, and high-performance networking is advantageous

Why Join?

• Work within a technology-first hedge fund that invests heavily in infrastructure
• Direct impact on a rapidly expanding, high-performance research and trading platform
• Complex technical challenges rarely found outside elite trading environments
• Market-leading compensation and benefits

If you enjoy solving infrastructure problems through software and want to operate in a truly engineering-led environment, we’d welcome a confidential conversation.