Network Automation Engineer

Overview As part of the Colo Infrastructure team at G-Research, you design and build automation for high-performance, low-latency network infrastructure. You'll develop IaC-driven pipelines and self-service tooling to accelerate deployment and reliability.

You collaborate with network, platform, and security teams to deliver scalable, resilient systems and contribute to incident response and on-call reliability. This role offers impact in a fast-paced, research-led environment that values methodical execution and continuous improvement.

Pay / Benefits competitive compensation with discretionary bonus lunch provided 30 days' annual leave 9% company pension contributions comprehensive healthcare and life assurance cycle-to-work scheme Responsibilities Build and evolve automation frameworks for network provisioning and lifecycle management Develop infrastructure-as-code solutions using Python, Ansible, Terraform and Jinja2 Integrate network automation into CI/CD pipelines for reliable deployments Create APIs and self-service tooling for engineering teams Implement observability and telemetry for performance and reliability Collaborate with network, platform and security teams to deliver scalable systems Contribute to incident response and production reliability On-call responsibilities for critical parts of the infrastructure Key requirements Experience managing high-performance, low-latency, scalable network infrastructure Proficiency in Python and general engineering fundamentals (testing, VCS, CI/CD) Experience with Ansible, Terraform and Jinja2 Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes Exposure to monitoring/observability/telemetry in distributed systems Pragmatic problem solver, able to handle ambiguity and take ownership Collaborative in fast-paced engineering teams Deep networking fundamentals; ideally financial markets networking experience Experience leveraging AI tools like Claude Code Pragmatic problem solving Collaboration in fast-paced teams Ownership and accountability Python Ansible Terraform

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