Senior DevOps/Automation Engineer

Project overview

Senior DevOps/Automation Engineer

Responsibilities

Required Technical Skills:

Core:

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Desirable:

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• Automation Engineering & Orchestration:
• Design and build robust automation using Python and YAML.
• Develop and maintain Ansible playbooks in Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) for production orchestration.
• Ensure idempotent, restartable and state-aware automation patterns.
• Integrate automation across distributed and IBM Z platforms (including z/OS job execution patterns where relevant).
• CI/CD & DevOps Toolchain Integration:
• Build and maintain pipelines in GitHub and Jenkins (including Groovy-based pipeline development).
• Support Git based workflow design (branching strategy, pull requests, code reviews, tagging and release patterns).
• Observability & Monitoring:
• Design dashboards and telemetry pipelines using Grafana.
• Integrate logging/metrics with enterprise observability platforms (eg Splunk).
• Build automated compliance and drift dashboards.
• Data & Persistence:
• Design schemas and automation state handling in PostgreSQL.
• Implement run state tracking, job history retention, and audit evidence capture.
• Optimise queries and data handling for operational reliability.
• Security & Secrets Management:
• Implement secure secret handling using HashiCorp Vault.
• Integrate Vault with CI/CD and AAP workflows.
• Apply least privilege principles and secure credential lifecycle management.
• Contribute to enterprise standards for secrets, tokens and service accounts.
• Governance, Standards & Compliance:
• Embed compliance verification into pipelines (automated controls, evidence capture).
• Contribute to standards for GitHub, Jenkins, AAP and workflow governance.
• Support configuration drift detection and remediation automation.
• Strong Python development (production quality code, modular design, error handling, logging, testing).
• PostgreSQL (schema design, performance tuning, operational usage).
• YAML (clean, structured automation definitions).
• Git and Git based CI/CD practices.
• Jenkins pipeline development (Groovy).
• Experience with enterprise scale Ansible via AAP.
• Grafana dashboard development and metrics interpretation.
• Nexus or equivalent artefact repository management.
• HashiCorp Vault integration and secrets automation.
• IBM Z familiarity (z/OS concepts, JCL, batch scheduling).
• z/OS workflow tooling such as IBM z/OSMF and/or Zowe CLI.
• Experience with enterprise schedulers (eg, IWS patterns).
• Configuration drift management frameworks.
• API integration design.
• Infrastructure-as-Code governance models.
• Observability exporters and metrics pipelines.
• Experience in regulated financial environments.

Project details

Contract Length: 6 months

£500 - £570

Role Purpose

We are delivering a strategic automation and DevOps modernisation programme across IBM Z and distributed platforms. This role will design and engineer production grade automation, CI/CD integration, compliance verification, observability pipelines, and secure orchestration capabilities across a global estate.

You will work across Python, PostgreSQL, Git based workflows, Jenkins pipelines, Ansible orchestration, secrets management, artefact management, and observability tooling to build resilient, auditable and scalable automation services.

• Start: ASAP
• Duration: 6 months
• Location: London, UK, GB
• Rate: 63-71 EUR/h