Senior DevOps / Automation Engineer (IBM Z & Hybrid Platform)

Overview

In this role you will design and deliver enterprise-grade automation across IBM Z and hybrid platforms, driving modernization of DevOps practices. You will partner with cross-functional teams to implement CI/CD, orchestration, observability, and secure platform automation at scale. Your work supports a large, regulated global environment with a focus on reliability, security, and compliant automation. This is an opportunity to shape how automation and DevOps enable secure, scalable operations at enterprise reach.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver enterprise-grade automation solutions for IBM Z and hybrid platforms
• Implement CI/CD integrations and Groovy-based Jenkins pipelines
• Develop orchestration capabilities and observability pipelines
• Ensure compliance verification and secure credential handling across platforms
• Build and optimize secure platform automation across a large-scale estate
• Create dashboards and monitoring through Grafana
• Manage artefact repositories (Nexus or similar) and secret management (HashiCorp Vault)
• Contribute to resilient automation, orchestration, and platform engineering in complex environments

Key requirements

• Python production-grade development experience
• Experience with Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) in complex environments
• Git and CI/CD experience, including Jenkins pipelines in Groovy
• PostgreSQL schema/database design experience
• YAML development for automation and IaC
• Grafana dashboards and monitoring/observability implementation
• Nexus or similar artefact repository experience
• HashiCorp Vault and secure secret handling knowledge
• Proven track record of building resilient automation and platform engineering solutions
• IBM Z / zOS experience is highly desirable
• ability to work in large-scale, regulated environments

• stakeholder collaboration
• problem solving
• strong communication in cross-functional teams
• Python
• Ansible Automation Platform
• Git

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