Senior DevOps/Automation Engineer - Ansible

Salary: £? - ? per year Requirements: • Strong Python development skills, including production-quality code, modular design, error handling, logging and testing • PostgreSQL experience, including schema design, performance tuning and operational usage • Ability to write clean, structured YAML automation definitions • Experience with Git and Git-based CI/CD practices • Jenkins pipeline development experience using Groovy • Experience with enterprise-scale Ansible through Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) • Grafana dashboard development and ability to interpret metrics • Experience with Nexus or an equivalent artefact repository • Experience integrating HashiCorp Vault and automating secrets management • Familiarity with IBM Z, including z/OS concepts, JCL and batch scheduling (desirable) • Experience with z/OS workflow tools such as IBM z/OSMF or Zowe CLI (desirable) • Experience with enterprise schedulers, such as IWS patterns (desirable) • Experience with configuration drift management frameworks (desirable) • API integration design experience (desirable) • Familiarity with Infrastructure-as-Code governance models (desirable) • Experience with observability exporters and metrics pipelines (desirable) • Experience in regulated financial environments (desirable) Responsibilities: • Design and build robust automation using Python and YAML • Develop and maintain Ansible playbooks in AAP for production orchestration • Ensure automation is idempotent, restartable and state-aware • Integrate automation across distributed and IBM Z platforms, including z/OS job execution patterns where relevant • Implement failure handling, retry logic and operational guardrails • Build and maintain GitHub and Jenkins pipelines, including Groovy-based pipeline development • Embed automated compliance checks and quality gates in pipelines • Integrate artefact management through Nexus Repository • Support Git-based workflow design, including branching strategies, pull requests, code reviews, tagging and release patterns • Design Grafana dashboards and telemetry pipelines • Integrate logging and metrics with enterprise observability platforms such as Splunk • Build automated compliance and drift dashboards • Create structured reporting for audit and operational governance • Design PostgreSQL schemas and automation state handling • Implement run-state tracking, job-history retention and audit-evidence capture • Optimise queries and data handling for operational reliability • Implement secure secret handling with HashiCorp Vault and 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 • Embed compliance verification and evidence capture in pipelines • Contribute to governance standards for GitHub, Jenkins, AAP and workflows • Support configuration drift detection and remediation automation • Produce documentation for internal risk, audit and regulatory stakeholders • Engineer resilient, restartable and observable workflows that account for failure scenarios, including network issues and partial job completion • Document reusable patterns for global regions and make architecture-level decisions while balancing simplicity with production robustness Technologies: • API • Ansible • CI/CD • DevOps • Git • GitHub • Grafana • Groovy • IBM • Support • JCL • Jenkins • Network • Nexus • PostgreSQL • Python • Splunk • ARM • Security More: We are advertising a Senior DevOps / Automation Engineer contract in the banking sector. The contract is for six months, pays up to £480 per day and is inside IR35. The role is based in London or Sheffield, with hybrid working requiring two to three days per week at one of those locations. We are a specialist talent acquisition and management consultancy with recruitment divisions across the technical sector. We will not send your CV without your permission. last updated 42 week of 2026