DevOps Engineer
Licensed sponsor London Contract Posted 1 hour ago
We are seeking an experienced Senior DevOps / Automation Engineer to join a high-profile programme. This position requires a strong background in DevOps engineering, automation, and enterprise platform delivery, with specific experience supporting IBM Z environments.
The successful candidate will play a key role in driving DevOps best practices, automating infrastructure and deployment processes, providing technical leadership, and supporting the adoption of modern engineering standards across the organisation.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain enterprise-scale DevOps and automation solutions.
- Champion DevOps best practices, governance, compliance, and engineering standards across teams.
- Develop and support automation frameworks using Ansible Automation Platform.
- Collaborate with development, infrastructure, and operational teams to streamline delivery processes.
- Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and guidance to engineers within the team.
- Support CI/CD pipelines and release automation initiatives.
- Integrate tools and platforms through APIs to improve operational efficiency.
- Contribute to platform modernisation initiatives within IBM Z environments.
Essential Skills & Experience
- 10+ years of DevOps engineering experience, including solution design, governance, compliance, and implementation of DevOps best practices.
- Minimum 2 years of experience working within IBM Z environments.
- Strong hands-on experience with:
- GitHub
- Jenkins
- Ansible Automation Platform
- Nexus Repository
- Python
- HashiCorp Vault
- API Integration
- Proven technical leadership experience, including mentoring engineers and promoting engineering best practices.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Experience working within large enterprise environments.
Desirable Skills
- Experience with zOSMF.
- Experience with zOAU.
- Previous experience within financial services or highly regulated environments.
- Knowledge of enterprise automation and infrastructure modernisation programmes.
