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