Network Automation Designer

Job Title: Network Automation Designer

Location: Pune

About Barclays

Barclays is a British universal bank. We are diversified by business, by different types of customers and clients, and by geography. Our businesses include consumer banking and payments operations around the world, as well as a top-tier, full service, global corporate and investment bank, all of which are supported by our service company which provides technology, operations and functional services across the Group.

Risk and Control Objective

Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work you do.

Working Flexibly

Hybrid Working

Structured hybrid role

Introduction:
This role is to be a senior network automation developer for BNV NetDevOps.

This individual will be helping define automation strategy and designs, perform hands on development, mentor other staff members. The team is responsible for delivering strategic automation projects on a large scale network.

The role will require the engineer to be able to perform hands on coding activities alongside providing technical leadership.

What will you be doing?
- Senior automation engineer in a team growing to 20 globally, providing expertise across multiple programming frameworks, languages and network and security products
- Defining automation workflows in consultancy with network engineers.
- Ownership of technical project deliveries.
- Work closely with stakeholders and Product management to assist in creating and maintain the technical strategy and roadmap for Network Automation use cases
- Key projects which the team owns:
o Infrastructure As Code virtualised DMZ automation

o Firewall ruleset automation to an estate of over 2000 firewalls

o Network standardisation through automation

o Multicloud deployments of NSX on premise and in public cloud
- Developing the network automation framework

What we’re looking for:

- Network/Infrastructure automation using Python and preferably Ansible and working knowledge of GIT, Jenkins, and other DevOps tools
- Experience in frameworks and databases such Django, Flask, PostgreSQL and similar.
- Experienced in REST API development
- Experience in Linux systems (daemons, services, file system, rpm packages etc), network Automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- Solid experience automating network devices such as NSX, Routers, Switches, load balancers, firewalls etc.

Skills that will help you in the role:

- Excellent understanding and hands-on experience with monitoring/collector protocols such as SNMP Polls and Traps, Syslog, NetFlow, Streaming Telemetry, NetConf/RestConf for state data, etc.
- Experience of having worked with CMDB platforms and an understanding of Enterprise level network management platforms.
- Experience of IPAM and SoR tools such as Netbox
- Experience in operating in a Scrum/Agile/SDLC environment
- Designing, building and automating NSX-V and/or NSX-T networking

Where will you be working?

Pune

Be More at Barclays

Interested and want to know more about Barclays? Visit home.barclays/who-we-are/ for more details.

Purpose, Values and Mindset

We deploy finance responsibly to support people and businesses, acting with empathy and integrity, championing innovation and sustainability, for the common good and the long term.

Our values underpin everything we do: Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship.

Respect

We harness the power of diversity and inclusion in our business, trust those we work with, and value everyone's contribution.

Integrity

We operate with honesty, transparency and fairness in all we do.

Service

We act with empathy and humility, putting the people and businesses we serve at the centre of what we do.

Excellence

We champion innovation, and use our energy, expertise and resources to make a positive difference.

Stewardship

We prize sustainability, and are passionate about leaving things better than we found them.

Our Mindset shapes how we take action, living by our Values, driven by our Purpose, always with our customers and clients at the heart of what we do; our Mindset is to Empower, Challenge and Drive.

Empower

Trust and support each other to deliver. Make decisions with those closest to the topic. Include diverse perspectives. Celebrate success and learn from failure.

Challenge

Question whether things can be done better. Use insights based on data to inform decisions. Be curious about how we can adapt and improve. Speak up and be open to alternative viewpoints.

Drive

Focus on outcomes. Deliver with pace. Be passionate and ambitious about what we do. Take personal responsibility. Actively build collaborative relationships to get things done.

Software Engineering