Jonathan Clayton
Network Automation And DevOps Engineer
Stockport, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJonathan Clayton is a Network Automation and DevOps engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience and a twenty-year IT background, specialising in multivendor routing, firewalls and virtualised/cloud networking. He blends deep Juniper and Cisco platform expertise with modern automation—Python (Nornir, Napalm, PyEz), Ansible, Salt, Terraform and containerisation—to migrate and scale device fleets and infrastructure testing pipelines. At Equinix he modernised legacy Python tooling, containerised automation, and built reproducible testbeds with Terraform, BGP peering and Kubernetes gitops, while running bespoke config drift and bulk update systems across Arista, Nokia, Juniper and Cisco. Equally comfortable designing EVPN/leaf-spine fabrics, AWS transit architectures and on-prem VMware/KVM overlays, he brings pragmatic QoS, VoIP and security experience to complex hybrid-cloud projects. As a freelance consultant and founder of M87 Tech, he pairs consultancy breadth with implementation depth, often turning manual network operations into repeatable, testable pipelines. An enthusiast for Linux networking and virtual lab tooling (EVE-NG, Proxmox), he routinely validates designs in containerised, multi-site test environments before production rollouts.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
HND, Business I.T., HND, Business I.T. at Leeds Beckett UniversityCertificate of Higher Education, Business Computing, Certificate of Higher Education, Business Computing at Stockport College
Github Skills (189)
python10
switch10
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infrastructure10
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k8s10
pbr10
mesh10
vpn10
mount10
sd-wan10
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data-storage10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
bodleytunes/wizzcloud-ansible-lab
Mar 2021 - Oct 2021
Similar to the salt deployment lab but this time build entirely in Ansible. Also added a few modules to deal with things such as ZT networking API.
Contributions:1 release, 50 commits, 107 PRs in 7 months
bare-metalapidealsaltsimilar
bodleytunes/jimiplugin-batfish
Apr 2021 - Jun 2021
Batfish plugin for jimi
Contributions:7 releases, 1 review, 45 PRs in 1 month
batfishjimi
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