Network Automation Engineer

CACI Network Services is a rapidly expanding specialist IT and Networks consultancy offering a wide variety of opportunities to work within challenging and exciting environments with our major clients in Global Media, Banking, Government, Telecoms & Utilities

Essential Experience: (must-have skills/qualifications)

• Solid experience of working in a high-pressure, large-scale, global environment.
• Solid understanding of Web Security - Web Application Firewalls & API Security Gateways
• Experience doing development & tooling for Network & Security Engineering Teams
• Ability to communicate at all levels.
• Solid understanding of distributed multi-tier architectures.
• Solid understanding of change control procedures and incident reporting methodologies.
• Automating infrastructure provisioning - IaaS & Automating application delivery - PaaS
• Successful, proven experience (minimum 3 years) in similar function within a large multi-functional environment.
• Very good working knowledge of financial services industry.
• Experienced in the technical implementation of key business applications through Test and into Live Service.
• Significant experience of different delivery methodologies (waterfall, agile/SaFE/LeSS/kanban/xp)

Essential Technical Experience:

• Good understanding of Firewalls
• Good experience with automation around Networking & Security devices
• Minimum 5 years' experience in a DevOps/Automation role
• Good experience with Automation Frameworks specifically Ginger
• Solid Development Skills (Bash, Python)
• Solid Development Skills in developing and consuming RESTful services.
• Understanding the build life cycle of an application through to deployment.
• Solid understanding of general cloud based services, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS.
• Good Understanding of Agile deliveries

Competencies Required:

• Excellent communication skills - both verbal and written
• Team Work - Shares knowledge, information and expertise, collaborates with others to achieve a common purpose. Ability to maintain composure in a high pressure work environment
• Analysis and Solutions Seeking - Has a clear logical approach to problem identification and analysis always minimising risk. Strong problem solver
• Planning and Organisation - Has a structured approach to work, self-organised and adaptable to varying demands in workload.
• Client focus - Maintains contact with clients, keeping them informed and using feedback to improve quality of service.
• Ideas Generation - Takes initiative to seek and develop solutions or enhancements.
• Professionalism - Has discipline, good time management and takes responsibility for decisions.
• Commercialism - Has general awareness about organisational goals and objectives.

Rewards and Benefits

In return you will be awarded with a competitive salary, excellent benefits and the opportunity to develop your career and skills within a growing company.

Equal Opportunities:

CACI is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. Embracing the diversity of our people, we are on a journey to build a truly inclusive work environment where no one is treated less favourably due to ethnic origin, age, gender, veteran status, religion or belief, sexual orientation, marital status, and disability or health condition, actively working to prevent discrimination.

As a Disability Confident employer, we will.

• Provide reasonable adjustments in the recruitment process where requested (contact a member of the recruitment team to discuss individual requirements further).
• Offer people with health conditions and disabilities, meeting the minimum criteria for a role, an interview.

Our people are unique and we encourage, and support them, to be confident in contributing to our inclusion journey.