Senior DevOps Automation Engineer
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£450-530 GBP
Onsite WORKING
Location: Sheffield, Central London, Greater London - United Kingdom Type: Permanent
Senior DevOps Automation Engineer
DevOps, Automation & Platform Engineering
Location: London or Sheffield / Hybrid Working (2-3 Days Onsite)
Rate: Up to £530 per day (Inside IR35)
Contract: 6 Months
Start Date: ASAP
About the Role
We're supporting a major enterprise technology programme seeking a Senior DevOps Automation Engineer to help drive automation, platform modernisation and engineering best practice across a complex environment.
This is a hands-on role requiring deep automation expertise, strong technical leadership capabilities and proven experience operating within IBM Z environments. You'll work closely with engineering teams to improve delivery pipelines, automate operational processes and drive DevOps maturity across the organisation.
What You'll Be Doing
Onsite WORKING
Location: Sheffield, Central London, Greater London - United Kingdom Type: Permanent
Senior DevOps Automation Engineer
DevOps, Automation & Platform Engineering
Location: London or Sheffield / Hybrid Working (2-3 Days Onsite)
Rate: Up to £530 per day (Inside IR35)
Contract: 6 Months
Start Date: ASAP
About the Role
We're supporting a major enterprise technology programme seeking a Senior DevOps Automation Engineer to help drive automation, platform modernisation and engineering best practice across a complex environment.
This is a hands-on role requiring deep automation expertise, strong technical leadership capabilities and proven experience operating within IBM Z environments. You'll work closely with engineering teams to improve delivery pipelines, automate operational processes and drive DevOps maturity across the organisation.
What You'll Be Doing
- Designing and implementing automation solutions across enterprise platforms.
- Building and enhancing CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes.
- Driving DevOps best practices, governance and engineering standards.
- Developing automation using Ansible, Python and API integrations.
- Supporting platform modernisation and operational efficiency initiatives.
- Providing technical leadership and mentoring engineers across delivery teams.
- Working closely with stakeholders to improve automation and release capabilities.
- Identifying opportunities to eliminate manual processes through automation.
- 10+ years' experience in DevOps, Automation or Platform Engineering.
- Minimum 2 years' experience working within IBM Z environments.
- Experience with zOSMF and zOAU would be highly advantageous.
- Strong hands-on experience with:
- Jenkins
- GitHub
- Ansible Automation Platform
- Python
- HashiCorp Vault
- API Integrations
- Nexus
- Proven experience designing and implementing enterprise automation solutions.
- Strong understanding of DevOps governance, controls and compliance.
- Experience mentoring engineers and providing technical leadership.
- Major enterprise transformation programme
- Highly technical, hands-on engineering role
- Opportunity to influence automation strategy and engineering standards
- Work with modern DevOps tooling and large-scale environments
- Fast interview process with immediate requirement