Automation Engineer

Automation Engineer

£550/day Inside IR35 | Farnborough | 5 Days Onsite | Active SC Clearance Required

We're supporting a growing automation function delivering work within a highly secure, air-gapped environment. Due to increased demand across several programmes, we're looking for a hands-on Automation Engineer who enjoys solving infrastructure challenges through automation and scripting.

This is not a cloud-native DevOps role. We're looking for a practical infrastructure automation specialist who can build, improve and maintain automation tooling across complex on-premise environments.

The Role

You'll join a team responsible for designing and delivering automation solutions that improve infrastructure provisioning, configuration management and operational efficiency across secure environments.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Designing, building and maintaining automation solutions for infrastructure provisioning and configuration.
• Developing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, including reusable modules, state management and best practice patterns.
• Creating and maintaining Ansible playbooks, roles and automation workflows.
• Developing automation tooling and scripts using Python, Bash and PowerShell.
• Integrating automation solutions with CI/CD and version control processes.
• Improving deployment consistency, operational efficiency and environment standardisation.
• Troubleshooting and optimising existing automation tooling and workflows.
• Producing technical documentation and contributing to continuous improvement initiatives.

Required Skills & Experience

• Strong infrastructure automation background.
• Excellent Ansible experience (this is the highest priority skill area).
• Terraform expertise.
• Scripting experience with Python, Bash and/or PowerShell.
• Experience delivering automation in secure or restricted environments.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work independently and adapt to changing priorities.

Desirable Experience

• Git / version control experience.
• GitLab experience.
• Rundeck experience.
• Previous experience working within air-gapped or offline environments.

Additional Information

• Farnborough based.
• 5 days per week onsite required due to the nature of the environment.
• Active SC clearance required.
• Sole British Nationals only.
• Candidates must be comfortable working without AI-assisted tooling, as the project operates within a secure environment where AI tools cannot be used

Reasonable Adjustments:

Respect and equality are core values to us. We are proud of the diverse and inclusive community we have built, and we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and perspectives. Our success is driven by our people, united by the spirit of partnership to deliver the best resourcing solutions for our clients.

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