DevOps Automation Platform Engineer

Company: Transaction Network Services
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Location: Sheffield
Job Description:

Overview

In this Platform Engineer role, you will advance TNS Automation Development’s DevOps automation and AI-driven journey. You will own the GitLab foundation, design and optimize CI/CD pipelines, and coordinate releases while ensuring secure, scalable automation and orchestration. You’ll partner withGlobal Systems, NOC, and business units to gather requirements and deploy solutions. This is a hands-on, cross-functional role that shapes infrastructure and applies AI-assisted automation to real-world networks.

Responsibilities

  • Own GitLab foundation: standards for repo creation, pipelines, deployment
  • Design, build, and optimize CI/CD pipelines
  • Standardize unit, integration, and security testing
  • Plan, coordinate, publicize, and monitor releases
  • Maintain health of automation/orchestration apps, plugins, pipelines
  • Define infrastructure requirements for cloud, virtualized, and physical deployments
  • Document AI-assisted automation deployment standards and patterns
  • Collaborate with Security and Risk teams to assess security posture
  • Interact with Global Systems, NOC, and stakeholders for requirements and deployment

Key requirements

  • SDLC and CI/CD pipelines
  • Release management and best practices
  • Software development and engineering
  • Network and software automation
  • Monitoring platforms (Netreo a plus)
  • Python
  • AWS
  • Ansible / Terraform
  • Jinja / Django
  • Docker and containerization
  • great communication skills
  • ability to work in a global, cross-functional team
  • problem-solving and ownership
  • Python
  • AWS
  • Ansible

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Posted: October 1st, 2026