Remote Senior DevOps & Automation Engineer

Experis; City Of London; Remote; GBP 92,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Experis is seeking a Senior DevOps / Automation Engineer to lead automation and DevOps modernisation across IBM Z and distributed systems. The role emphasizes designing production-grade automation, CI/CD integration, observability pipelines, and secure orchestration across a global estate.

You'll work with Python, PostgreSQL, GitHub, Jenkins, Ansible (AAP), Vault, and Grafana to deliver auditable, scalable services.

Qualifications

• Production-grade automation experience across Python and YAML.
• Strong CI/CD concepts with Git-based workflows and Jenkins pipelines.
• Hands-on Ansible orchestration in enterprise platforms (AAP).
• Experience building observability pipelines with Grafana and Splunk.
• Data persistence design in PostgreSQL with run state tracking.

Responsibilities

• Design and build robust automation using Python and YAML.
• Develop and maintain Ansible playbooks for production orchestration.
• Create and maintain pipelines in GitHub and Jenkins (Groovy).
• Design dashboards and telemetry pipelines with Grafana.
• Implement run state tracking, job history retention, and audit evidence capture.
• Apply secure secret handling using Vault and integrate with CI/CD.

Skills

Python

PostgreSQL

YAML

Git CI/CD

Jenkins pipelines

Ansible (AAP)

Grafana

Observability

Vault integration

Nexus/Artifact mgmt

Tools

Jenkins

Ansible/AAP

Grafana

Splunk

HashiCorp Vault

Nexus

Job description

Experis is seeking a Senior DevOps / Automation Engineer to lead automation and DevOps modernisation across IBM Z and distributed systems. The role emphasizes designing production-grade automation, CI/CD integration, observability pipelines, and secure orchestration across a global estate.

You'll work with Python, PostgreSQL, GitHub, Jenkins, Ansible (AAP), Vault, and Grafana to deliver auditable, scalable services.