DevOps Platform Engineer

• Lead the engineering delivery of centralized capabilities within the Ansible and Harness platforms, ensuring scalable, secure, and reliable solutions for enterprise-wide adoption.
• Design, build, automate, and manage robust infrastructure platforms that enable development teams to deliver applications efficiently and consistently.
• Drive platform engineering initiatives focused on cloud infrastructure, automation, DevOps practices, platform reliability, security, and developer experience.
• Develop and maintain centralized CI/CD and automation services using Harness and Ansible, supporting large-scale engineering teams and promoting standardization across the organization.
• Implement infrastructure-as-code and pipeline-as-code practices to improve operational efficiency, governance, and deployment consistency.
• Ensure platform solutions meet security, compliance, and reliability requirements while delivering an exceptional experience for developers.

• Advanced Harness Administration: Deep practical experience designing, implementing, and maintaining Harness (CD & CI) at scale. Must include experience with pipeline-as-code & template management.
• Enterprise Ansible Automation: Proven expertise writing robust, reusable Ansible Playbooks, Roles, and Collections. Strong experience managing enterprise configurations via Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) and Ansible Core, including inventory management, execution environments, and RBAC of centralised instances.
• Shared Services Management: Demonstrated track record of delivering, scaling, and maintaining CI/CD and automation tools including Harness/Ansible as a centralized service for wide consumption across multiple engineering teams (1000+ developers).
• Platform-as-a-Product” Mindset:Experience treating internal tooling as a product, including gathering developer requirements & creating clear documentation.
• Containerization & Orchestration: Solid understanding of.Docker and.Kubernetes for deploying, scaling, and managing Ansible execution environments.
• Security & Compliance: Experience integrating security guardrails into central pipelines (eg, secrets management via HashiCorp Vault, role-based access control, and automated compliance scanning).
• API & Integration Skills: Experience extending the capabilities of Harness and Ansible by integrating them via APIs with other enterprise tools (eg, Jira, ServiceNow, GitHub/GitLab, Monitoring tools).

This is a hybrid role - you can work remotely in the UK and attend the Leeds/Halifax/Manchester office 2 days per week .

This is a 12 month temporary contract to start ASAP

Day rate: Competitive Market rate

Our client, a leading global supplier for IT services, requires DevOps Platform Engineer to be based at their client’s office in Leeds/Halifax/Manchester, UK.