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# DevOps Platform Engineer

- **Company:** Project Recruit
- **Location:** Manchester, UK (Remote available)
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Application Integration Architecture, JIRA, Cloud Computing, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Github, Monitoring of Systems, Role-Based Access Control, Ansible, Systems Integration, System Availability, Gitlab, Containerization, Kubernetes, Hashicorp, Docker, Servicenow
- **Published:** August 11, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerboard.com/pt/en/find-jobs-in-United-Kingdom/-B2A655E1225A596063/

## About the Role

* 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).

## Description

* 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.


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