Infrastructure Automation Engineer Lead - VP
Adecco · London · posted 23 days ago
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Infrastructure Automation Engineer Lead
Location: London
Pay: £600 per day
Contract: 6 months
Shape the Future of Infrastructure Automation
We are embarking on a major transformation programme to embed automation across our global infrastructure estate, and we're looking for an experienced Infrastructure Automation Engineer Lead (VP) to help drive this strategic initiative.
This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in accelerating Infrastructure as Code (IaC), automation, and platform engineering practices across a complex global environment supporting approximately 3,000 servers and services. You'll work at the intersection of Infrastructure, Cloud, Security, Development, and Architecture teams to build scalable, secure, and reusable automation solutions that improve operational efficiency, consistency, and resilience.
If you're passionate about automation, cloud technologies, DevOps practices, and modern infrastructure engineering, we'd love to hear from you.
What You'll Be Doing
As Infrastructure Automation Engineer Lead, you will:
Design, develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform, Ansible and Python. Drive automation adoption across compute, storage, cloud and network infrastructure teams. Build reusable automation frameworks, templates and standards to enable consistent delivery across global platforms. Contribute to the development of internal platform engineering capabilities and self-service infrastructure solutions. Integrate automation into VMware, Azure and GitHub-based workflows. Partner closely with Infrastructure, Security, Development, SRE and Architecture teams to identify and eliminate manual processes. Support the delivery of the Infrastructure Automation Programme roadmap and key objectives. Ensure automation solutions are secure, compliant and aligned with organisational standards. Develop CI/CD integrations, guardrails and governance controls for infrastructure automation. Act as a technical leader and trusted advisor across infrastructure transformation initiatives. Participate in out-of-hours support and major incident escalation when required.
What We're Looking For
Essential Skills & Experience
Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices. Advanced hands-on experience with Terraform . Advanced experience with Ansible . Strong scripting skills using Python , PowerShell or Bash. Experience working with Git-based development workflows (GitHub, GitLab or similar). Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps methodologies. Experience with cloud infrastructure, ideally Azure and/or AWS. Good knowledge of VMware infrastructure services. Solid understanding of enterprise infrastructure including compute, storage and networking. Experience working within structured change management and regulated environments. Proven ability to collaborate effectively across technical teams and stakeholders. Strong networking knowledge.
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