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