We are looking to onboard 2 x experienced Automation Developers with strong Ansible/Python skills on a contract basis for a large bank. The role will sit within the banks Storage and Data Protection team and is focused on delivering large-scale configuration management and automation across a complex global server estate. This is an opportunity to work on automation challenges at enterprise scale, helping to ensure the health and resilience of data protection systems across the bank.
The bank have a hybrid model and offices throughout the UK therefore we can be flexible on location within the UK. This will be an initial 6 month contract with potential for extension.
Background and Role
The bank have an estate of ~100,000 servers which are split 50/50 between Windows and Linux.
The objective is to ensure all servers are correctly configured to support reliable backups and restores.They have been migrating from Puppet to Ansible and this migration is nearing completion, however there is a significant backlock of automation work to complete following this migration and the bank will be launching new configuration management use cases that may stress infrastructure at scale.
Key Responsibilities
1. Design, build and maintain Ansib...