Senior Network Automation Consultant - Hybrid Porto

Avance Consulting; Porto; Hybrid; EUR 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Avance Consulting seeks a Network Security Automation Consultant in Porto, Portugal. The role is permanent and hybrid (3 days onsite, 2 days remote), focusing on designing and implementing automation across network and security infrastructure.

You will define standards, build reusable automation artifacts, and integrate monitoring, validation, and ITSM workflows to improve operational efficiency and resilience.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain network automation standards, coding guidelines, and best practices.
• Design and implement automation solutions using Ansible, Python, Jinja2, and network automation frameworks.
• Develop and maintain reusable Ansible playbooks, roles, collections, plugins, and dynamic inventories.
• Automate device onboarding, provisioning, and configuration management for network and security infrastructure.
• Develop automated workflows for routing, switching, security, and multi-vendor network environments.
• Implement GitLab CI/CD pipelines for network changes, including automated validation, testing, deployment, and rollback procedures.
• Develop monitoring and validation solutions for network performance, connectivity, routing protocols, and infrastructure health.
• Automate remediation processes and integrate monitoring with operational and ITSM platforms.
• Build automation solutions for VXLAN-EVPN data center fabrics, traffic engineering, and network orchestration.
• Design and maintain Infrastructure as Code repositories, version control strategies, and deployment frameworks.
• Generate automated documentation, compliance reports, network inventories, and operational dashboards.
• Implement backup, disaster recovery, high availability monitoring, and automated recovery procedures.
• Collaborate with network, security, infrastructure, and operations teams to drive automation initiatives and improve operational efficiency.
• Provide technical leadership, guidance, and mentoring to less experienced team members.

Skills

Ansible

Python

Jinja2

Network automation

GitLab CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Automation tooling

Monitoring & validation

Team leadership

Tools

GitLab

Job description

Avance Consulting seeks a Network Security Automation Consultant in Porto, Portugal. The role is permanent and hybrid (3 days onsite, 2 days remote), focusing on designing and implementing automation across network and security infrastructure.

You will define standards, build reusable automation artifacts, and integrate monitoring, validation, and ITSM workflows to improve operational efficiency and resilience.