Senior Network Automation Engineer / Software Developer

Job Description:

Job Title: Senior Network Automation Engineer / Software Developer

Corporate Title: Vice President  

Location: Chester

Company Overview:

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection.  We do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

Being a Great Place to Work is core to how we drive Responsible Growth.  This includes our commitment to being a diverse and inclusive workplace, attracting and developing exceptional talent, supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness, recognizing and rewarding performance, and how we make an impact in the communities we serve.

At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact.  Join us!

Location Information:

Chester

Find us in the city of Chester, a destination renowned for its culture, history, and beauty. Working at Bank of America Chester offers a far-reaching global career for a world-renowned organisation, whilst being ideally situated against the backdrop of the rolling North Wales hills and the banks of the serene River Dee.

This is a hands-on engineering role, not a traditional network operations position.

You'll be building the platforms, APIs and automation frameworks that define how network infrastructure is deployed and managed. You'll have the opportunity to influence architecture, engineering standards and automation strategy while working on complex networking challenges at enterprise scale.

If you're a Python engineer who understands networks, or a network engineer who thinks in code, this role offers the opportunity to build the next generation of network automation capabilities.

Role Description:

Are you passionate about automating complex network environments and eliminating operational toil through engineering excellence?

We're seeking a Senior Network Automation Engineer / Software Developer to help drive the evolution of our global network automation capabilities. This is an opportunity to work at scale, designing and building automation platforms, APIs, and orchestration solutions that power critical enterprise network services.

You'll combine deep networking expertise with modern software engineering practices to deliver infrastructure through code, automate operational processes, and influence the future direction of network automation across a highly complex environment.

As a senior member of the team, you will lead the design and development of automation solutions that improve how networks are deployed, managed, monitored, and maintained.

You'll work at the intersection of Networking, Software Engineering, DevOps, and Infrastructure Automation, partnering with architects, software developers, DevOps engineers, and network specialists to create scalable, resilient, and highly automated solutions.

Responsibilities:

Network Automation & Service Development

• Design and develop automation solutions for enterprise network provisioning, configuration management and lifecycle operations.

• Build and maintain Python-based services, APIs and microservices that support network service delivery and operational workflows.

• Develop reusable automation frameworks and service templates that enable consistent infrastructure deployment at scale.

• Engineer solutions that integrate with network controllers, orchestration platforms and management systems.

• Design and implement automation workflows across routing, switching and data centre environments.

Software Engineering

• Develop high-quality, maintainable Python applications using modern software engineering practices.

• Produce clean, testable and well-documented code.

• Troubleshoot complex issues across network, software and automation domains.

• Lead peer code reviews and establish engineering standards across the team.

• Design REST APIs and service integrations that enable infrastructure self-service and operational automation.

Infrastructure Automation & DevOps

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines supporting automated testing, validation and deployment.

• Implement automated testing frameworks and continuously expand service test coverage.

• Manage application deployment across development, QA, staging and production environments.

• Leverage Infrastructure as Code principles to drive consistency and repeatability across environments.

• Improve observability, reliability and operational efficiency through automation.

Technical Leadership

• Act as a technical authority for network automation and software engineering initiatives.

• Drive architectural decisions related to automation platforms, orchestration tooling and service design.

• Mentor engineers across Python development, automation frameworks and networking technologies.

• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate network requirements into scalable engineering solutions.

• Champion engineering best practices, automation-first thinking and continuous improvement.

What we are looking for:

• Extensive experience developing network automation solutions within large-scale enterprise environments.

• Strong software engineering background with proven Python development expertise.

• Experience delivering automation platforms that support critical production infrastructure.

• Demonstrable experience working across both networking and software engineering disciplines.

• Experience designing, building and operating scalable API-driven services.

Technical Skills

Networking strong understanding of:

• TCP/IP

• BGP

• VLANs

• VRFs

• Routing and switching architectures

• Enterprise data centre networking

Development & Automation

Expert-level experience with:

• Python

• Linux (Ubuntu, CentOS or equivalent)

• REST APIs

• Git-based development workflows

• CI/CD pipelines

• Automated testing frameworks

Hands-on experience with:

• Ansible

• Itential

• Nautobot

• Terraform

• Network orchestration platforms

Software Defined Networking

Experience with one or more of:

• Arista CloudVision (CVP)

• Cisco ACI

• Other software-defined networking technologies

Skills that will help:

• Deep understanding of Network as Code methodologies.

• Experience building automation around large-scale routing and switching environments.

• Exposure to containerised workloads and modern platform engineering practices.

• Knowledge of database technologies and data modelling.

• Experience integrating automation solutions with ITSM, source control and observability platforms.

Certifications Highly desirable certifications include:

• CCIE

• JNCIE

• Cisco DevNet Professional or Expert

• Arista ACE Level 5+

Bank of America:

Benefits:

UK

· At Bank of America, we strive to prioritise employees’ health and wellbeing – it’s what makes us a Great Place to Work.

· Private healthcare for you and your family plus an annual health screen to help you manage your physical wellness with the option to purchase a screen for your partner

· Competitive pension plan, life assurance and group income protection cover if you become unable to work as a result of a disability or health reasons

· We offer 26-weeks paid maternity leave, 16-weeks paid paternity leave and inclusive family leave arrangements for working parents and carers including 20 days of back-up childcare including access to school holiday clubs and 20 days of back-up adult care per annum 

· The ability to change your core benefits as well as the option of selecting a variety of flexible benefits to suit your personal circumstances including access to a well-being account, travel insurance, critical illness, cycle to work etc.

· Use of a flex fund to use towards benefits

· Access to an emotional wellbeing helpline, and virtual GP services

· Access to the Peppy App which provides 1:1 support, consultations and resources relating to men’s health, women’s health, fertility, menopause and pregnancy & parenthood

· Access to a range of gyms, exercise classes and wellbeing Apps through Wellhub, including Headspace and Calm

· Ability to donate to charities of your choice directly through payroll and the bank will match your contribution

· Opportunity to give back to your community, develop new skills and work with new groups of people by volunteering in your local area

Good conduct and sound judgment is crucial to our long-term success. It’s important that all employees in the organisation understand the expected standards of conduct and how we manage conduct risk. Individual accountability and an ownership mind-set are the cornerstones of our Code of Conduct and are at the heart of managing risk well.

“We are an equal opportunities employer and ensure that no applicant is subject to less favourable treatment on the grounds of sex, gender identity or gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, race, religious or similar philosophical belief, political opinion, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, socio-economic background, responsibility for dependants or physical or mental disability. The Bank selects candidates for interview based on their skills, qualifications and experience.”

We strive to ensure that our recruitment processes are accessible for all candidates and encourage any candidates to tell us about any adjustment requirements.