About the Role
As a Network Automation Engineer, you will transform how networking is delivered across our global infrastructure. You will build automation frameworks, APIs, and tooling to make our network scalable, self-service, and production-ready, designing and shipping systems that power large-scale compute and research environments.
Responsibilities
- Building and evolving automation frameworks for network provisioning and lifecycle management
- Developing infrastructure-as-code solutions using Python, Ansible, Terraform and Jinja2
- Integrating network automation into CI/CD pipelines for reliable, repeatable deployments
- Creating APIs and self-service tooling for engineering teams
- Implementing observability and telemetry solutions for performance and reliability
- Partnering with Network, Platform and Security teams to deliver resilient, scalable systems
- Contributing to incident response and production reliability
Requirements
- Confident with Python and solid engineering fundamentals across testing, version control and CI/CD
- Deep understanding of networking fundamentals, including routing, switching, firewalls and protocols
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code and automation tools such as Ansible, Terraform and Jinja2
- Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes
- Exposure to monitoring, observability or telemetry in distributed systems
- Pragmatic problem solver who can operate in ambiguity and take ownership
- Comfortable working in collaborative, fast-paced engineering teams
- Experience with event-driven architectures, such as Kafka and RabbitMQ
- API design or platform engineering experience
- Knowledge of service discovery, secrets management or policy-as-code
- Understanding of large-scale data centre networking, for example with Cisco, Arista, segment routing or multitenancy
- Contributions to open-source networking or automation projects
Skills
- Python
- Ansible
- Terraform
- Jinja2
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Kafka
- RabbitMQ
- Networking fundamentals
- Routing
- Switching
- Firewalls
- Protocols
- Infrastructure-as-code
- CI/CD
- API design
- Platform engineering
- Service discovery
- Secrets management
- Policy-as-code
- Data centre networking
- Cisco
- Arista
- Segment routing
- Multitenancy
- Open-source networking
- Automation projects
Location
- London
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Mid-level
Salary/Compensations
- Highly competitive compensation plus annual discretionary bonus
Benefits
- Lunch provided (via Just Eat for Business)
- Dedicated barista bar
- 30 days’ annual leave
- 9% company pension contributions
- Informal dress code
- Excellent work/life balance
- Comprehensive healthcare
- Life assurance
- Cycle-to-work scheme
- Monthly company events
About the Company
- We tackle the most complex problems in quantitative finance, by bringing scientific clarity to financial complexity.
- From our London HQ, we unite world-class researchers and engineers in an environment that values deep exploration and methodical execution.
- We’re building a world-class platform to amplify our teams’ most powerful ideas.
Equal Opportunity
- G-Research is committed to cultivating and preserving an inclusive work environment.
- We are an ideas-driven business and we place great value on diversity of experience and opinions.
- We want to ensure that applicants receive a recruitment experience that enables them to perform at their best.
- If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation please let us know in the relevant section
