Contract: Bare Metal Platform Engineer & Orchestration Lead
Start Date: ASAP
Duration: 6 months +
Location: Yorkshire
Rate: Negotiable (Deemed inside IR35 via Umbrella solution)
Reference: 20233
Role Summary:
Major IT Consultancy is seeking a Bare Metal Platform Engineer to be responsible for the technical engineering, industrialisation, and operational life cycle of a clients global x86 estate. Unlike a traditional asset lead, this role focuses on abstracting hardware complexity through automation. You will be responsible for engineering the "connective tissue" between vendor-specific management tools (iDRAC, iLO, XCC) and the clients core orchestration engines. The goal is to deliver "Bare Metal as a Service" (BMaaS) by ensuring that Dell, HPE, and Lenovo hardware can be provisioned, managed, and observed as a unified, code-driven resource.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Unified Orchestration Engineering: Design and implement automation workflows that abstract vendor-specific tools (Lenovo XClarity, Dell OpenManage, HPE OneView) into a standardized management layer.
2. Northbound Integration: Lead the integration of hardware management platforms with the Bank's Ansible and Terraform playbooks to enable Infrastructure as Code (IaC) provisioning.
3. Observability & Telemetry: