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Lead Infrastructure Automation Engineer – London
Location: London – 3 days per week onsite (Canary Wharf)
Start: ASAP
Contract status: INSIDE IR35
We are seeking an experienced Lead Infrastructure Automation Engineer to lead a strategic infrastructure modernisation programme across EMEA. You will transform a largely manual environment into a scalable Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) platform, taking ownership from strategy and design through to delivery.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead IaC and infrastructure automation across on-prem and future cloud environments.
- Build automated provisioning, configuration, patching, compliance and lifecycle processes.
- Develop self-service infrastructure workflows and automation frameworks from the ground up.
- Define infrastructure standards, governance and best practices.
- Provide technical leadership across Infrastructure, Operations and Engineering teams.
- Support modernisation involving Kubernetes, OpenShift and hybrid cloud.
- Help establish and mentor a future infrastructure automation team.
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- Strong hands-on Terraform and Ansible experience.
- Enterprise-scale IaC and greenfield automation experience.
- Strong Linux, VMware and enterprise infrastructure knowledge.
- Experience with Kubernetes / OpenShift.
- Exposure to Azure or GCP and hybrid cloud environments.
- Git, CI/CD and DevOps experience.
- Proven ability to independently lead strategic infrastructure transformation projects.
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