Hybrid Automation Engineer - CI/CD, Ansible & PowerShell

Ports North; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 59,000 - 77,000; Full time

Job summary

Korn Ferry is recruiting for an Automation Engineer on a hybrid contract in City of London. The role offers 50% on-site work, a day rate of up to £400, and an initial term of six months with the possibility of extension.

Responsibilities include planning and delivering upgrades, ensuring security and vendor compliance, administering Windows and Linux apps, building CI/CD pipelines, and advancing IaC and DevOps practices.

Qualifications

• Experience administering enterprise applications on Windows and Linux.
• Experience delivering production upgrades.
• Scripting and automation with PowerShell, Bash or Python.
• Experience with Ansible for configuration management.
• Knowledge of app servers, middleware and databases.
• Strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills.

Responsibilities

• Plan, coordinate and deliver application upgrades, migrations and platform refresh activities.
• Ensure applications remain compliant with vendor support and security requirements.
• Administer applications deployed on Windows and Linux environments.
• Troubleshoot application, middleware and infrastructure issues.
• Maintain operational documentation and runbooks.
• Identify opportunities to automate manual operational processes.
• Develop automation using PowerShell, Bash, Python or similar tools.
• Build CI/CD deployment pipelines.
• Promote Infrastructure as Code and DevOps best practices.

Skills

Windows admin

Linux admin

Production upgrades

PowerShell

Bash

Python

Ansible

App servers

Middleware

Databases

Troubleshooting

Root cause analysis

GitHub Actions

Artifactory

Xray

SonarQube

Tools

GitHub Actions

Artifactory

Xray

SonarQube

Job description

Korn Ferry is recruiting for an Automation Engineer on a hybrid contract in City of London. The role offers 50% on-site work, a day rate of up to £400, and an initial term of six months with the possibility of extension.

Responsibilities include planning and delivering upgrades, ensuring security and vendor compliance, administering Windows and Linux apps, building CI/CD pipelines, and advancing IaC and DevOps practices.