1 day ago
Bromley, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Design and develop automation for enterprise network provisioning, configuration management, and lifecycle operations.
- Build Python-based services, APIs, microservices, automation frameworks, and reusable service templates.
- Integrate solutions with network controllers, orchestration platforms, management systems, and software-defined networking technologies.
- Develop automation workflows across routing, switching, and data centre environments.
- Design REST APIs and service integrations for infrastructure self-service and operational automation.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, automated testing frameworks, and deployment processes across development, QA, staging, and production.
- Apply Infrastructure as Code principles to improve consistency, repeatability, observability, reliability, and operational efficiency.
- Troubleshoot complex networking, software, and automation issues and lead peer code reviews.
- Drive architectural decisions, establish engineering standards, mentor engineers, and provide technical leadership for network automation initiatives.
Requirements
- Extensive experience developing network automation solutions in large-scale enterprise environments.
- Strong software engineering background with proven Python development expertise.
- Experience delivering automation platforms for critical production infrastructure.
- Experience across both networking and software engineering disciplines.
- Experience designing, building, and operating scalable API-driven services.
- Strong understanding of TCP/IP, BGP, VLANs, VRFs, routing and switching architectures, and enterprise data centre networking.
- Expert-level experience with Python, Linux, REST APIs, Git-based development workflows, CI/CD pipelines, and automated testing frameworks.
- Hands-on experience with Ansible, Itential, Nautobot, Terraform, network orchestration platforms, and Software Defined Networking.
- Experience with Arista CloudVision (CVP), Cisco ACI, or other software-defined networking technologies.
- Knowledge of Network as Code methodologies, large-scale routing and switching automation, containerised workloads, platform engineering, database technologies, data modelling, ITSM, source control, and observability platforms is beneficial.
- CCIE, JNCIE, Cisco DevNet Professional or Expert, and Arista ACE Level 5+ certifications are highly desirable.
Benefits
- Private healthcare for the employee and family, an annual health screen, pension plan, life assurance, and group income protection.
- Paid maternity, paternity, and inclusive family leave, plus back-up childcare and adult care support.
- Flexible benefits, a flex fund, wellbeing account, travel insurance, critical illness coverage, and cycle-to-work benefits.
- Emotional wellbeing helpline, virtual GP services, Peppy App support, and access to gyms, exercise classes, Headspace, Calm, and other wellbeing apps through Wellhub.
- Payroll charity donations with employer matching and opportunities for local volunteering.
- The role is based in the Bromley or Chester, UK offices.
About Lateral
Lateral is a privately held IT services and consulting firm headquartered in San Francisco and founded in 2008. It delivers end-to-end software design, development, integration, and UX services for enterprises and startups, with strengths in Microsoft technologies, native iOS/Android, databases, PHP, and web stacks. The company works on project-based engagements and consulting retainers rather than selling a standalone product.