Automation Engineer

Automation Engineer – Contract
£750 per day (Inside IR35)
Fully Remote – 6 Months
(Must be able to start within 4 weeks)

We’re working with a Tier 1 global bank on a major automation project. This role sits within an engineering function that’s driving the automation of their private cloud estate, replacing manual VM provisioning with scalable, testable infrastructure-as-code.

You’ll be focused on building out end-to-end automation of ESXi and vCenter using Ansible and Python, with tight integration into CI/CD pipelines running via Jenkins. The aim is to streamline provisioning, standardise environments, and increase release velocity across business-critical applications.

What You’ll Need:

  • Strong Ansible experience – building and managing complex playbooks
  • Advanced Python skills
  • CI/CD with Jenkins – experience building pipelines and integrating automation tooling
  • Experience automating VMware (ESXi, vCenter)

Nice to have:

  • Pytest
  • Robot Framework
  • HashiCorp Vault

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At a glance

  • Job reference: BBBH38659_1750839052
  • Location: London, Greater London
  • Job type: Contract
  • Job sector: DevOps, Cloud & Infrastructure
  • Salary: £700 - £750 per day
  • Published: June 25, 2025