Wintel Engineer - Chef Automation

JR United Kingdom; West Midlands Combined Authority; Remote; GBP 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking two Senior Wintel Engineers to join their Cloud Platform team in a fully remote role. The position focuses on Chef Chef automation for patch management, vulnerability remediation, and enforcing compliance while collaborating across cloud and security stakeholders. Ideal candidates will have proven expertise with Chef and strong experience in Wintel engineering, ready to contribute to improving infrastructure management processes.

Qualifications

• Proven expertise with Chef (non-negotiable).
• Strong experience in Wintel engineering within enterprise environments.
• Solid understanding of patch management and automation workflows.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain Chef Cookbooks for automating patching and compliance.
• Implement infrastructure automation solutions in a Wintel server environment.
• Support ongoing vulnerability remediation and CIS compliance initiatives.

Skills

Chef

Wintel engineering

Patch management

Compliance frameworks

Automation workflows

Collaboration

Job description

Senior Wintel Engineer (x2) (Chef Automation) – Remote – 6M

Overview: Our client, based in Eastern EU, is seeking two Senior Wintel Engineers to join their Cloud Platform team. This is a high-impact role focused on automating patch management, vulnerability remediation, and enforcing CIS compliance within an on-premise environment.

You’ll be working on a key project stream (CSVM), helping to shape and streamline infrastructure management processes using Chef for configuration automation. This is a fully remote opportunity with an immediate start available (UK, EU remote).

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain Chef Cookbooks for automating patching and compliance activities
• Implement infrastructure automation solutions in a Wintel server environment
• Support ongoing vulnerability remediation and CIS compliance initiatives
• Collaborate with cloud and security stakeholders across the platform team
• Contribute to process improvements and documentation

Must-Have Experience:

• Proven expertise with Chef (this is non-negotiable)
• Strong experience in Wintel engineering within enterprise environments
• Solid understanding of patch management, compliance frameworks, and automation workflows
• Comfortable working independently and in cross-functional remote teams

Nice-to-Have:

• Exposure to large-scale on-prem and hybrid environments
• Familiarity with modern DevOps tools and CI/CD pipelines