Network Automation Engineers
Engineers who know networks first and tooling second, so what gets automated is chosen on operational risk rather than on what was easiest to script.
Automation built by someone who has never carried a change window fails at scale. The scarce profile is the one that understands both production risk and the tooling.
This is the Recruitment specialization for that intersection — Python, Ansible, Terraform and Cisco automation, with both halves assessed separately before submission.
Bought on the same two models as every other Recruitment role: Co-Managed on a monthly rate, or Dedicated for a one-time fee.
Recruitment & Staffing — the first of three service lines. Recruitment gives you the people; Professional & Managed Services does the work for you; Consultancy decides what work should be done.
What that costs you
Why the usual answer fails
Automation engineers from a software background can build the pipeline but underestimate what pushing a change to live production means. Network engineers understand the risk but often lack the tooling depth. The intersection is genuinely scarce, and conventional recruitment screens for neither half properly.
How we work
A practicing Solution Architect assesses both halves: routing and switching fundamentals, change management discipline and production risk judgment on one side; Python, Ansible, Terraform, APIs and Git-based workflow on the other.
The question that separates candidates is not whether they can automate something. It is whether they can explain what they would refuse to automate, and why. A candidate who has no answer to that has not yet worked at production scale.
What these engineers deliver
Repeatable workflows for device configuration, policy deployment, access control and routing changes, applied consistently rather than device by device.
Validated state before and after change, shorter maintenance windows, and consistent deployment across the estate.
Continuous visibility into whether infrastructure still matches approved standards.
Branch builds, upgrades and migrations executed from a known-good template rather than assembled by hand.
How it is bought
| How it works | Commitment | |
|---|---|---|
| Co-Managed | Lumensoft employs, you direct the work | 7-day shortlist guarantee; free replacement for the life of the project |
| Dedicated | You hire directly on your own payroll | 30-day hiring guarantee; 90-day replacement guarantee |
Technologies
Standardizing an estate that has grown faster than it was documented.
Automation capability applied across several client environments.
Change control and auditability treated as requirements, not afterthoughts.
Consistent deployment across distributed infrastructure.
You are likely in scope if any of these is true:
Co-Managed carries the 7-day shortlist guarantee and free replacement for the life of the project. Dedicated carries the 30-day hiring and 90-day replacement guarantees.
Common questions
Both halves are assessed — network fundamentals and production risk judgment, then tooling depth. Candidates who can script but cannot reason about blast radius are not submitted.
Not necessarily, but it helps. If you are unsure what should be automated first, the Network Automation assessment answers that independently and you hire against the resulting roadmap.
Co-Managed suits a defined programme with an end date. Dedicated suits building a permanent internal capability.
Yes, in almost every case — integrating with your existing tooling, change process and approval workflow rather than replacing them.
Yes. Change control, documentation and auditability are part of the screening rather than an afterthought.
Build automation that survives production, which is a different skill from writing a script that runs. The candidates worth hiring can explain what they would refuse to automate and why, describe what happens when a change to two hundred devices fails on the twelfth, and start from standardization rather than from code when an estate carries undocumented exceptions.
Related services
If the sequencing question is still open — what to automate first, and what to standardize before any of it — the Consultancy assessment answers that independently and you can hire against the resulting roadmap.
The Network Automation assessment answers that independently, with no implementation attached.
Recruitment & StaffingAll five roles, both engagement models, and one screening standard.
Professional & ManagedManaged NOC runs 24/7 monitoring across LAN, WAN, voice and UC.
Thirty minutes to define what you are actually trying to automate and what the right profile looks like.