Roger Perkin
Senior Network Engineer - NetDevOps at CityFibre
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRoger Perkin is a Senior Network Automation and NetDevOps engineer with nine years of focused experience designing and delivering enterprise-grade network automation across data center, cloud and global enterprise environments. A CCIE (#50038) and Python-first developer, he architects robust automation workflows using NetBox, Ansible/AWX, Nornir, Terraform and Jinja2 to turn network infrastructure into reliable infrastructure-as-code. He has led NetBox adoption and data model design at scale, driving operational efficiency and repeatable provisioning across multinational organisations including Haleon, Maersk and CityFibre. Comfortable both as an architect and hands-on implementer, Roger blends deep routing and switching expertise (BGP/OSPF, SD‑WAN, EVPN) with pragmatic DevOps practices to reduce errors and accelerate deployments. Colleagues rely on him to translate network complexity into maintainable automation, and he’s known for pushing open-source tooling to solve real-world operational gaps. Based in London, he pairs a hardware-first networking pedigree with modern software practices to modernise and automate legacy estates.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
HND, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, HND, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of PlymouthLaunceston College
Github Skills (24)
napalm10
python10
netmiko10
network-automation10
cisco10
ansible9
automation9
passwords6
oclif4
marpit3
wordpress-plugin3
operator3
cli3
redirect3
marp3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
rogerperkin/learn-python
May 2018 - Mar 2025
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 11 months
rogerperkin/rogerperkin.github.io
Nov 2020 - Dec 2024
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
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