Senior Platform / Automation Engineer (Developer Background) (DV CLEARANCE)
Location: London, Manchester, Ipswich, and Cheltenham.
Role Type: 6 Months Contract and Hybrid role.
About the Role We are seeking a Senior Platform & Automation Engineer who combines strong software engineering fundamentals with deep infrastructure-as-code (IaC) expertise. You will own and evolve our core infrastructure, driving automation across our entire technical stack-all delivered seamlessly through unified CI/CD pipelines.
This role requires a developer background (strong Python) to ensure our infrastructure code and automation workflows adhere to modern software design standards.
Key Responsibilities
- Infrastructure as Code: Design, build, and maintain scalable infrastructure using Terraform and Ansible.
- Automation & Scripting: Develop custom automation tools, internal CLI systems, and integration scripts primarily in Python.
- CI/CD Orchestration: Manage standard continuous delivery pipelines, integrating infrastructure updates, container deployments, and tool setups directly into developer workflows.
- Tech Stack Delivery: Automate the provisioning and configuration of our operational ecosystem, including tools across observability (Prometheus, Elastic, Checkmk), security/compliance (Tenable, Red Hat Satellite), service registry/IPAM (NetBox), container orchestration (ArgoCD), and artifact management (Artifactory, GitLab).
- Engineering Standards: Apply developer methodologies-such as version control, code reviews, automated testing, and CI/CD-to all infrastructure configurations.
Required Skills & Experience
- Software Development Foundation: Strong background in software engineering or development, with hands-on coding experience in Python.
- Core IaC Expertise: Proven experience with Terraform (provisioning) and Ansible (configuration management).
- Pipeline Delivery: Experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar) to ship both software and infrastructure changes.
- Linux Environment: Solid understanding of Enterprise Linux environments (e.g., RHEL).
If you are interest in the role, please apply ASAP or share your updated CV to saisaranya.gummadi@randstaddigital.com
Randstad Technologies is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
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