DevOps Engineer

Overview

DevOps Consultant

Network as Code (NAC)

What You’ll Do

• **Pipeline Engineering:**
• Build and maintain end‑to‑end CI/CD pipelines in

Azure DevOps

• , enabling automated Cisco network configuration and deployment.
• **Automation Development:**
• Develop high‑quality

Ansible

• playbooks, roles, and collections tailored for Cisco’s NAC ecosystem.
• **Infrastructure as Code:**
• Create and manage

Terraform

• configurations for network infrastructure, providers, and state management.
• **Version Control Leadership:**
• Define branching strategies, manage PR workflows, and lead code reviews across

GitHub/GitLab

• .
• **Standards & Governance:**
• Establish YAML‑based configuration standards and documentation for all automation artifacts.
• **Operational Excellence:**
• Troubleshoot pipeline failures, optimise execution times, and ensure reliability across the automation framework.
• **Technical Advisory:**
• Serve as the SME for DevOps best practices, GitOps workflows, and automation scaling strategies.

Required Skills & Experience

• **Azure DevOps (Primary):**
• Deep expertise in Azure Pipelines, environments, and service connections.
• Able to build complex multi‑stage pipelines from scratch.
• **Ansible:**
• Advanced experience with network automation, especially within Cisco NAC environments.
• **Terraform:**
• Strong understanding of provider configuration, state management, and module development.
• **YAML:**
• High proficiency in writing clean, maintainable YAML for pipelines and configuration files.
• **Git:**
• Expert‑level knowledge of branching models, merge conflict resolution, and PR workflows.
• **DevOps Practices:**
• Hands‑on experience implementing CI/CD and GitOps for infrastructure or networking.

Preferred Skills

• Solid understanding of
• Cisco networking
• (ACI, Catalyst/Nexus, routing protocols).
• **Python**
• scripting for automation extensions or data manipulation.
• Experience integrating tools via

REST APIs