DevOps and Automation Engineer

Sanderson Recruitment Plc
Manor Park, United Kingdom
4 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Temporary contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior
Compensation
£ 169K

Job location

Manor Park, United Kingdom

Tech stack

Microsoft Windows
Artificial Intelligence
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Continuous Integration
DevOps
Linux Servers
Ansible
Terraform

Job description

  • Deliver DevOps and automation capability across Enterprise Change initiatives.

  • Improve deployment, release, automation, and infrastructure processes.

  • Act as a senior, hands-on engineer who can operate independently.

  • Support the organisation's evolution toward AI-driven automation and Agentic AI, learning and applying these on the job., * Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines.

  • Automate and improve deployment and release processes.

  • Support hybrid infrastructure, including on-prem (majority) and AWS cloud platforms.

  • Implement Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform and Ansible.

  • Collaborate with Delivery Managers, Product Owners, project teams, and DevOps leadership.

  • Contribute to platform enhancements, process improvements, and automation initiatives during quieter periods.

  • Drive agentic-first automation, reusable end-to-end automation, and Automation-as-a-Service (AaaS).

  • Maintain and support AI/automation solutions in production

  • Embed security and compliance by design across automation and deployments.

  • Exposure to ephemeral environments and automation concepts.

  • Support and upskill in Agentic AI / AI-driven automation initiatives.

  • AI/automation will increasingly form part of the workload, though the role is not purely AI-focused.

Requirements

  • Senior-level DevOps contractor with broad, traditional DevOps skills (not cloud-only).
  • Experience across Windows & Linux servers, on-prem infrastructure, AWS cloud, and hybrid/multi-cloud setups.
  • Comfortable with automation-first thinking, CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-Code, and enterprise-scale change.
  • True DevOps generalist with an automation and AI mindset., * Agentic
  • Ephemeral

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