Job Title: Data Protection Automation Engineer Location: Sheffield - Hybrid 3 x days a week Salary/Rate: £525 per day inside IR35 Start Date: August 2025 Job Type: 4 month Contract Company Introduction We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Data Protection Automation Engineer. You should have excellent knowledge of the scrum framework, with all its artifacts and techniques. You'll also need the ability to coordinate people and projects with your mind set on deliverables. Job Responsibilities/Objectives 1. Contribute to sprints, retrospective meetings and daily stand-ups 2. Work with product owners to handle backlogs and new requests 3. Design, develop, test and support automation for the data protection services (NetBackup and CommVault) within the bank. 4. Design, develop, test and support reporting and monitoring capabilities for the automation. 5. Provide engineering support on the bank's data protection products and their standard usage. 6. Undertake product evaluation, new features, and versions. 7. Develop clear and comprehensive documentation for all automation produced. 8. Mentor less experienced members of staff Required Skills/Experience 1. Excellent knowledge of Scrum techniques and artifacts (such as definition of done, user stories, automated testing, backlog refinement) 2. Extensive knowledge of software development languages, including Python, Bash 3. Comprehensive experience in configuration management and orchestration using Redhat Ansible 4. Proficient in designing, developing, and testing Rest API services. 5. Hands on experience in Devops SCM tooling. GitLab 6. Competent in Devops CICD tooling. Jenkins., CloudBees 7. Skilled in using Devops collaboration tools., Jira., Confluence 8. Knowledgeable in Veritas NetBackup and related infrastructure 9. Knowledgeable in Commvault and related infrastructure If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now with your updated CV in Microsoft Word/PDF format. Disclaimer Notwithstanding any guidelines given to level of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies. Square One is acting as both an employment agency and an employment business, and is an equal opportunities recruitment business. Square One embraces diversity and will treat everyone equally. Please see our website for our full diversity statement.