Korn Ferry
Automation Engineer
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Automation Engineer
Work pattern: Hybrid, 50% on site
Location: City of London
IR35 determination: Inside
Rate: up to £400 per day
Duration: 6 months + ext
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, Ansible, or similar tools.
- Build CI/CD deployment pipelines.
- Promote Infrastructure as Code and DevOps best practices.
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Essential Criteria
- Strong experience administering enterprise applications on both Windows and Linux.
- Experience delivering applications and platform upgrades in production environments.
- Experience with scripting and automation using PowerShell, Bash, Python, or similar tools.
- Experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible.
- Experience with application servers, middleware, and databases.
- Strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills.
Desirable Criteria
- Experience integrating Artifactory, Xray, and SonarQube into CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience with application release management, dependency management, and repository governance.
- Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines.
- Monitoring and observability tools
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About Korn Ferry
Korn Ferry unleashes potential in people, teams, and organizations. We work with our clients to design optimal organization structures, roles, and responsibilities. We help them hire the right people and advise them on how to reward and motivate their workforce while developing professionals as they navigate and advance their careers. To learn more, please visit Korn Ferry at www.Kornferry.com
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