Senior DevOps Automation Engineer

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

• 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? xwzovoh

• 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.
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