Network Security Automation Consultant

Position: Network Security Automation Consultant

Job Type: Permanent

Location: Porto, Portugal

Mode: Hybrid - 3 days onsite and 2 days remote

Responsibilities:

• Define and maintain network automation standards, coding guidelines, and best practices.
• Design and implement automation solutions using Ansible, Python, Jinja2, and network automation frameworks.
• Develop and maintain reusable Ansible playbooks, roles, collections, plugins, and dynamic inventories.
• Automate device onboarding, provisioning, and configuration management for network and security infrastructure.
• Develop automated workflows for routing, switching, security, and multi-vendor network environments.
• Implement GitLab CI/CD pipelines for network changes, including automated validation, testing, deployment, and rollback procedures.
• Develop monitoring and validation solutions for network performance, connectivity, routing protocols, and infrastructure health.
• Automate remediation processes and integrate monitoring with operational and ITSM platforms.
• Build automation solutions for VXLAN-EVPN data center fabrics, traffic engineering, and network orchestration.
• Design and maintain Infrastructure as Code repositories, version control strategies, and deployment frameworks.
• Generate automated documentation, compliance reports, network inventories, and operational dashboards.
• Implement backup, disaster recovery, high availability monitoring, and automated recovery procedures.
• Collaborate with network, security, infrastructure, and operations teams to drive automation initiatives and improve operational efficiency.
• Provide technical leadership, guidance, and mentoring to less experienced team members.