Senior Network Automation Engineer / Software Developer

Bank of America; Chester; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Bank of America in Chester seeks a Senior Network Automation Engineer / Software Developer to design and build automation platforms, APIs, and orchestration solutions for enterprise networks. You will blend network expertise with software engineering to deliver infrastructure as code and automated workflows at scale.

The role requires extensive Python development, deep networking knowledge, and experience delivering automation across large deployments.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience developing network automation solutions within large-scale enterprise environments.
• Strong software engineering background with proven Python development expertise.
• Experience delivering automation platforms that support critical production infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop automation solutions for enterprise network provisioning, configuration management and lifecycle operations.
• Build and maintain Python-based services, APIs and microservices that support network service delivery and operational workflows.
• Lead the design and development of automation solutions to improve how networks are deployed, managed, and observed.

Skills

Python

Linux

REST APIs

Git-based development

CI/CD pipelines

Automated testing frameworks

Ansible

Itential

Nautobot

Terraform

Network orchestration platforms

Tools

Ansible

Itential

Nautobot

Terraform

Network orchestration platforms

Job description

Job Description:

Job Title: Senior Network Automation Engineer / Software Developer

Corporate Title: Vice President

Location: Chester

Company Overview:

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. We do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

Being a Great Place to Work is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. This includes our commitment to being a diverse and inclusive workplace, attracting and developing exceptional talent, supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness, recognizing and rewarding performance, and how we make an impact in the communities we serve.

At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us!

Location Information:

Chester

Find us in the city of Chester, a destination renowned for its culture, history, and beauty. Working at Bank of America Chester offers a far-reaching global career for a world-renowned organisation, whilst being ideally situated against the backdrop of the rolling North Wales hills and the banks of the serene River Dee.

This is a hands-on engineering role, not a traditional network operations position.

You’ll be building the platforms, APIs and automation frameworks that define how network infrastructure is deployed and managed. You’ll have the opportunity to influence architecture, engineering standards and automation strategy while working on complex networking challenges at enterprise scale.

If you’re a Python engineer who understands networks, or a network engineer who thinks in code, this role offers the opportunity to build the next generation of network automation capabilities.

Role Description:

Are you passionate about automating complex network environments and eliminating operational toil through engineering excellence?

We're seeking a Senior Network Automation Engineer / Software Developer to help drive the evolution of our global network automation capabilities. This is an opportunity to work at scale, designing and building automation platforms, APIs, and orchestration solutions that power critical enterprise network services.

You’ll combine deep networking expertise with modern software engineering practices to deliver infrastructure through code, automate operational processes, and influence the future direction of network automation across a highly complex environment.

As a senior member of the team, you will lead the design and development of automation solutions that improve how networks are deployed, managed, monitored, and maintained.

You’ll work at the intersection of Networking, Software Engineering, DevOps, and Infrastructure Automation, partnering with architects, software developers, DevOps engineers, and network specialists to create scalable, resilient, and highly automated solutions.

Responsibilities:

Network Automation & Service Development

• Design and develop automation solutions for enterprise network provisioning, configuration management and lifecycle operations.
• Build and maintain Python-based services, APIs and microservices that support network service delivery and operational workflows.
• Develop reusable automation frameworks and service templates that enable consistent infrastructure deployment at scale.
• Engineer solutions that integrate with network controllers, orchestration platforms and management systems.
• Design and implement automation workflows across routing, switching and data centre environments.

Software Engineering

• Develop high-quality, maintainable Python applications using modern software engineering practices.
• Produce clean, testable and well-documented code.
• Troubleshoot complex issues across network, software and automation domains.
• Lead peer code reviews and establish engineering standards across the team.
• Design REST APIs and service integrations that enable infrastructure self-service and operational automation.

Infrastructure Automation & DevOps

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines supporting automated testing, validation and deployment.
• Implement automated testing frameworks and continuously expand service test coverage.
• Manage application deployment across development, QA, staging and production environments.
• Leverage Infrastructure as Code principles to drive consistency and repeatability across environments.
• Improve observability, reliability and operational efficiency through automation.

Technical Leadership

• Act as a technical authority for network automation and software engineering initiatives.
• Drive architectural decisions related to automation platforms, orchestration tooling and service design.
• Mentor engineers across Python development, automation frameworks and networking technologies.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate network requirements into scalable engineering solutions.
• Champion engineering best practices, automation-first thinking and continuous improvement.

What we are looking for:

• Extensive experience developing network automation solutions within large-scale enterprise environments.
• Strong software engineering background with proven Python development expertise.
• Experience delivering automation platforms that support critical production infrastructure.
• Demonstrable experience working across both networking and software engineering disciplines.
• Experience designing, building and operating scalable API-driven services.

Technical Skills

Networking

Networking strong understanding of:

• TCP/IP
• BGP
• VLANs
• VRFs
• Routing and switching architectures
• Enterprise data centre networking

Development & Automation

Expert-level experience with:

• Python
• Linux (Ubuntu, CentOS or equivalent)
• REST APIs
• Git-based development workflows
• CI/CD pipelines
• Automated testing frameworks

Hands-on experience with:

• Ansible
• Itential
• Nautobot
• Terraform
• Network orchestration platforms

Software Defined Networking

Experience with one or more of:

• Arista CloudVision (CVP)
• Cisco ACI
• Other software-defined networking technologies

Skills that will help:

• Deep understanding of Network as Code methodologies.
• Experience building automation around large-scale routing and switching environments.
• Exposure to containerised workloads and modern platform engineering practices.
• Knowledge of database technologies and data modelling.
• Experience integrating automation solutions with ITSM, source control and observability platforms.