DevOps Engineer – Data Protection Automation (RedHat Ansible)

London - UK

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Experience Required: 4-5years

Posted on: 2 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Contract Role Title: DevOps Engineer Data Protection Automation

Contract Location: London / Sheffield / Birmingham (On-site with some Hybrid flexibility)

Contract Start Date: ASAP / February 2026

Contract End Date: December 2026

Role Overview

This is an exciting opportunity to work with Deloittes Tier 1 global investment banking clients on a large-scale data and regulatory reporting transformation.

We are supporting a large complex enterprise programme focused on data protection privacy storage and automation. This role is a hands-on DevOps engineering position working within a highly technical environment that supports automated backup archival retrieval and reporting solutions in line with regulatory and data privacy requirements.

This is an individual contributor and hands-on role which sits within a data engineering and automation team responsible for building maintaining and enhancing data protection automation platforms integrating with internal systems and third-party APIs. The environment is Agile highly collaborative and technology-led (circa 90% technical 10% domain).

Financial services experience is not required strong DevOps and automation capability is the priority.

Key Responsibilities

Design develop test and support automation for data protection services (including backup and restore platforms)

Build and maintain automation solutions aligned with data privacy and regulatory requirements

Design develop test and support reporting and monitoring capabilities for automation platforms

Provide engineering support for data protection automation services in use across the organisation

Work with REST APIs and third-party API services to integrate tooling and functionality

Undertake product evaluations feature enhancements and version upgrades

Produce clear structured and comprehensive documentation for all automation delivered

Collaborate effectively within Agile delivery teams using Scrum methodologies

Required skills and experience:

Strong hands-on DevOps engineering experience

Extensive experience with configuration management and orchestration using RedHat Ansible / Ansible Automation Platform

Expert-level use of GitHub and source control management tooling

Strong experience working in Agile / Scrum environments

Proven use of Jira and Confluence for delivery and documentation

Strong scripting experience in Python and/or Bash (engineering focus not application development)

Experience designing developing and testing REST API services

Experience integrating and consuming third-party API services

Strong individual contributor comfortable working hands-on

Collaborative team player with excellent communication skills

Comfortable working across complex technical environments

Desirable skills and experience:

Experience converting Puppet code into Ansible or other platforms

Data Protection / Backup & Restore experience

On-prem infrastructure exposure

Experience with NetBackup (Cohesity)

Experience with Commvault

Required Skills:

RedHat Ansible

Contract Role Title: DevOps Engineer Data Protection AutomationContract Location: London / Sheffield / Birmingham (On-site with some Hybrid flexibility)Contract Start Date: ASAP / February 2026Contract End Date: December 2026 Role OverviewThis is an exciting opportunity to work with Deloittes Tier ...