Z DevOps – Automation Engineer

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

💵 £399 / year

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

🤖 QA Automation Engineer

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HelloKindred

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201 - 500 employees

💼 Consulting

🎯 Recruiter

📣 Marketing

Consulting • Recruitment • Marketing

HelloKindred is a global provider of marketing, creative, and digital talent, offering services that include both short and long-term contracts as well as direct hires. The company specializes in connecting businesses with creative and innovative talent through its vast pool of skilled professionals. HelloKindred emphasizes efficiency and cost-effectiveness in scaling global marketing efforts, offering both onshore and offshore services that enhance teams with design, content creation, and digital assets. By understanding client needs and fostering a culture of diversity and inclusion, HelloKindred delivers exceptional results through flexible staffing solutions tailored to modern business challenges.

📋 Description

• Provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, conduct design reviews, and promote DevOps engineering best practices • Design and develop production-grade automation using Python and YAML, including testing, logging, error handling, and operational resilience • Develop and maintain enterprise-scale automation workflows using Ansible Automation Platform across IBM Z and distributed platforms • Build idempotent, restartable, and state-aware workflows with failure handling, retry logic, and operational safeguards • Develop and maintain GitHub workflows and Jenkins CI/CD pipelines, including Groovy-based pipeline development and Git-based release practices • Integrate automated compliance checks, quality gates, evidence capture, and artefact management through Nexus Repository or equivalent tools • Design and optimise PostgreSQL schemas, queries, and automation state tracking for operational reliability and audit requirements • Develop Grafana dashboards and observability pipelines integrating logging and metrics with enterprise monitoring platforms such as Splunk • Implement secure secrets management using HashiCorp Vault and integrate secure credentials into CI/CD and AAP workflows • Design and maintain REST API integrations and enterprise service interfaces • Support configuration drift detection, automated remediation, compliance governance, and secure engineering standards • Document reusable automation patterns and operational procedures • Collaborate across mainframe and infrastructure teams • Support risk, audit, and regulatory requirements

🎯 Requirements

• At least 10 years of demonstrable DevOps engineering experience • Minimum 2 years of experience working within an IBM Z environment • Strong technical leadership experience, including mentoring engineers and providing technical guidance • Hands-on experience with GitHub, Jenkins, Ansible Automation Platform (AAP), Nexus Repository, Python, HashiCorp Vault, and API integration • Strong Python development skills, including production-quality code, testing, logging, error handling, and modular design • Experience with Jenkins pipeline development using Groovy, Git-based CI/CD practices, and YAML automation • Practical knowledge of PostgreSQL schema design, query optimisation, and operational data management • Experience developing Grafana dashboards and supporting monitoring, metrics, and observability initiatives • Knowledge of secure secrets management, credential lifecycle management, compliance verification, and configuration drift management • Familiarity with IBM Z and z/OS concepts, including JCL and batch scheduling • Ability to design resilient, restartable automation workflows and operate effectively in complex enterprise environments • Strong documentation, collaboration, and problem-solving skills • Experience engaging technical, infrastructure, risk, and audit stakeholders • Experience in regulated financial services environments is preferred • Familiarity with IBM z/OSMF and zOAU is highly advantageous • Experience with IWS, Infrastructure-as-Code governance, and observability tooling is desirable • Must be legally authorized to live and work in the country where the position is based without requiring employer sponsorship

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote work (100% remote) • 6-month contract opportunity • Mentoring and technical leadership opportunities • Inclusive and fair hiring practices • Equal opportunity employment