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Senior DevOps Automation Engineer

Anson McCadeLondon🇬🇧United Kingdom

Why this role stands out

You can advance your career in a major financial services transformation, leveraging your expertise in DevOps, automation, and platform engineering to build scalable, resilient solutions. This hybrid role offers a competitive daily rate and the chance to drive best practices within a highly regulated environment, making it an excellent opportunity for experienced engineers seeking impactful work. Apply today to contribute to a significant industry-wide program.

Quick overview

Salary£450 - £530/hr
SeniorityMid Senior
Employment typeFull Time
Work modeHybrid
LocationLondon, United Kingdom
GitAnsibleJenkinsPythonVaultCI/CD

Job description

£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?
  • 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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