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Role Title: Mainframe Ansible Engineer/Senior DevOps/Automation Engineer (IBM Z & Hybrid Platform)
Location: Sheffield- 3 days onsite/week
Duration: 30/04/2027
Role Description:
We are delivering a strategic automation and DevOps modernisation programme across IBM Z and distributed platforms. This role will design and engineer production grade automation, CI/CD integration, compliance verification, observability pipelines, and secure orchestration capabilities across a global estate.
You will work across Python, PostgreSQL, Git based workflows, Jenkins pipelines, Ansible orchestration, secrets management, artefact management, and observability tooling to build resilient, auditable and scalable automation services.
Key Responsibilities:
Automation Engineering & Orchestration:
Design and build robust automation using Python and YAML.
Develop and maintain Ansible playbooks in Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) for production orchestration.
Ensure idempotent, restartable and state-aware automation patterns.
Integrate automation across distributed and IBM Z platforms (including z/OS job execution patterns where relevant).
Implement failure handling, retry logic and operational guardrails.
CI/CD & DevOps Toolchain Integration:
Build and maintain pipelines in GitHub and Jenkins (including Groovy-based pipeline development).
Embed automated compliance checks and quality gates.
Integrate artefact management via Nexus Repository.
Support Git based workflow design (branching strategy, pull requests, code reviews, tagging and release patterns).
Observability & Monitoring:
Design dashboards and telemetry pipelines using Grafana.
Integrate logging/metrics with enterprise observability platforms (eg Splunk).
Build automated compliance and drift dashboards.
Create structured reporting for audit and operational governance.
Data & Persistence:
Design schemas and automat...
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