Open Warsaw, Poland (On-site) Infrastructure & IT Operations Contract Posted Sep 7, 2026
Role summary
Join a specialist technology team delivering a large-scale IT operations programme within a complex and highly structured enterprise environment.
As an Automation Engineer, you'll design and maintain automation that supports day-to-day infrastructure operations across servers, cloud platforms, virtualization, configuration management, and system administration.
The role requires someone who is comfortable working hands-on with scripting and infrastructure tooling and who understands how automation should support reliable, repeatable IT operations at scale.
Important
- Fully on-site role in Warsaw, Poland
- Contract employment
- Mid-senior level automation experience required
- Strong IT operations automation background required
- Python, PowerShell, and Bash experience highly relevant
- Ansible and Terraform experience strongly preferred
- Windows Server and Linux experience required
- VMware experience highly relevant
- Azure / AWS / Google Cloud exposure beneficial
- Large-scale IT operations experience strongly preferred
- Public sector, government, or EU agency experience is beneficial
- Candidates requiring remote or hybrid working are not suitable
- Candidates must be based in Warsaw or willing to relocate
We are looking for an Automation Engineer to design, implement, and maintain automated systems and tooling for a large-scale IT operations environment.
You'll work across infrastructure, operating systems, cloud platforms, configuration management, and scripting to reduce manual work, improve reliability, and support critical IT operations.
This is a fully on-site role in Warsaw and is suited to a mid-senior engineer with strong hands-on experience in infrastructure and IT operations automation.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement automation for IT operations and infrastructure
- Develop scripts and tooling using Python, PowerShell, and Bash
- Build and maintain configuration management workflows
- Automate infrastructure provisioning and system configuration
- Work with Ansible and Terraform
- Support VMware-based infrastructure environments
- Automate Windows Server administration and operations
- Automate Linux administration, including Red Hat environments
- Support Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud infrastructure
- Build repeatable operational processes and deployment workflows
- Reduce manual operational tasks through automation
- Maintain and improve existing automation tooling
- Troubleshoot failures across automated systems and infrastructure
- Support large-scale IT operations environments
- Work within structured IT service-management processes
- Document automation processes, standards, and procedures
- Collaborate with infrastructure, operations, and support teams
Required Skills
- Mid-senior level IT automation or infrastructure automation experience
- Experience designing and implementing automated systems for IT operations
- Strong scripting skills
- Python experience
- PowerShell experience
- Bash / shell scripting experience
- Ansible experience
- Terraform experience
- Infrastructure and systems administration understanding
- Windows Server experience
- Linux experience
- VMware experience
- Cloud infrastructure exposure
- Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving ability
- Ability to work within large-scale IT operations environments
- Based in or willing to relocate to Warsaw
- Willingness to work fully on-site
Technologies
- Python
- PowerShell
- Bash
- Ansible
- Terraform
- VMware
- Microsoft Azure
- AWS
- Google Cloud
- Windows Server
- Linux
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Infrastructure as Code
- Configuration Management
- IT Automation
- ITIL
Nice To Have
- Public sector experience
- Government IT experience
- EU agency experience
- Large-scale IT operations programme experience
- Enterprise infrastructure experience
- ITIL experience
- Infrastructure as Code experience
- Hybrid cloud experience
- Multi-cloud experience
- VMware automation experience
- Windows automation experience
- Linux automation experience
- Experience working in structured service-management environments
- Experience documenting operational processes and standards
Soft Skills
- Strong ownership mentality
- Structured problem-solving
- High attention to detail
- Reliability-focused mindset
- Strong communication skills
- Collaborative approach
- Comfortable working in structured environments
- Pragmatic execution
- Strong troubleshooting ability
- Process-oriented mindset
- Ability to work independently
- High accountability
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