Automation Consultant in West Bromwich

World Wide Technology (WWT) is a global technology integrator and supply chain solutions provider. Through our culture of innovation, we inspire, build, and deliver business results, from idea to outcome.

WWT is looking for an experienced Automation Consultant/Engineer to lead client-facing automation engagements, designing and delivering scalable, long-term automation solutions across infrastructure and networking environments. The ideal candidate will provide technical leadership, drive best practices, and ensure high-quality execution from strategy through implementation.

This is a contract role inside IR35.

Contract Duration: 6 months contract

Location: London, United Kingdom (Hybrid - 2 days onsite per week)

Key responsibilities:

• Understand client needs, short and long term, and design automation solutions that serve both.
• Shape differentiated solutions that solve real client problems more effectively than competing approaches.
• Manage client data and context with discipline, to drive better experiences and stronger growth.
• Lead client automation engagements: strategy, enablement, and execution, from kickoff to handover.
• Provide technical leadership to the project team across architecture, development, testing, and production migration.
• Define automation architectures that are simple, effective, and built to last beyond your engagement.
• Drive continuous improvement within the practice through development, collaboration, and mentorship.
• Establish and enforce spec-driven development: write acceptance criteria before code, validate implementations against the spec.
• Champion infrastructure-as-code patterns: if it is not in Git, it does not exist.
• Embed pre- and post-change validation into every CI/CD pipeline: right-first-time is the goal, not the exception.
• Apply block/rescue/always and atomic-change patterns so rollback is a first-class path, never an afterthought.

Technical Skills:

• Automation Consultants lead design and implementation of infrastructure automation: provisioning, configuration, validation, and operational workflows.
• Networking Infrastructure as code.
• Automation and orchestration.
• Integration and APIs.
• Testing and validation.
• DevOps practices.

Candidates will be required to go through background checks before commencing contract. Must be eligible to live and work in the specified work location. Some occasional travel may be required. Only successful candidates will be contacted.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES: World Wide Technology is committed to equal opportunities and actively seeks applications from all sectors of the community irrespective of sex, race, color, nationality, ethnic or national origin, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, having responsibility for dependents, age, religion/beliefs, or any other reason which cannot be shown to be justified.