Senior DevOps Automation Engineer

Senior DevOps Automation Engineer £450-530 GBP Onsite WORKING

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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. What We're Looking For 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. Why Join?

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 To find out more about this opportunity, contact Daire McIlhatton at Anson McCade Recruitment. Reference: AMC/DMI/DV #damc TPBN1_UKTJ