Cisco Technical Architect

London / Birmingham / Bristol (with occasional travel to Swindon)

Marshall Wolfe hiring consultancy are hiring for an exciting opportunity, for an experienced Cisco Technical Architect to join a major transformation programme delivering complex network and data centre solutions in highly regulated environments.

This is a hands-on role focused on designing, building and maintaining production-grade automation solutions across Cisco data centre networks, helping to deliver repeatable, reliable and controlled network change through Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD practices.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain network automation solutions for Cisco data centre environments.
• Build Infrastructure as Code (IaC) workflows and CI/CD pipelines.
• Integrate automation with platforms including NDFC, NetBox, ServiceNow and Ansible Automation Platform.
• Support network migrations, validation activities and automation-driven deployments.
• Troubleshoot automation, integration and network-related issues.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of automation tooling and delivery processes.

Key Requirements

• Strong Cisco Data Centre networking experience, including NX-OS, VXLAN EVPN and vPC.
• Proven experience delivering network automation in production environments.
• Strong Python scripting and REST API integration skills.
• Experience with Ansible, GitHub/GitLab, GitOps and CI/CD pipelines.
• Knowledge of NDFC, NetBox and automation testing tools such as pyATS.
• Experience working within structured, change-controlled environments.
• Strong troubleshooting, communication and stakeholder engagement skills.

Location: London / Birmingham / Bristol (with occasional travel to Swindon)

Duration: 6 months

Type: Contract Inside IR35