IBM Z DevOps Automation Engineer

Anticipated Contract End Date/Length: 6 months
Work Set Up: Remote (100% remote)

Our client in the Information Technology and Services industry is looking for a Senior DevOps / Automation Engineer (IBM Z & Hybrid Platform) to lead automation and DevOps modernisation across IBM Z and distributed platforms. This role will involve designing and implementing production-grade automation CI/CD pipelines compliance controls observability solutions and secure orchestration capabilities across a global enterprise environment.

The ideal candidate will bring extensive DevOps engineering experience strong technical leadership skills and hands-on expertise in enterprise automation and platform integration. The successful candidate will drive engineering best practices strengthen governance and compliance and mentor engineers in delivering resilient secure auditable and scalable automation solutions across complex enterprise environments.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership mentor engineers conduct design reviews and promote DevOps engineering best practices.
• Design and develop production-grade automation using Python and YAML incorporating testing logging error handling and operational resilience.
• Develop and maintain enterprise-scale automation workflows using Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) across IBM Z and distributed platforms.
• Build idempotent restartable and state-aware workflows with appropriate failure handling retry logic and operational safeguards.
• Develop and maintain GitHub workflows and Jenkins CI/CD pipelines including Groovy-based pipeline development and Git-based release practices.
• Integrate automated compliance checks quality gates evidence capture and artefact management through Nexus Repository or equivalent tools.
• Design and optimise PostgreSQL schemas queries and automation state tracking to support operational reliability and audit requirements.
• Develop Grafana dashboards and observability pipelines integrating logging and metrics with enterprise monitoring platforms such as Splunk.
• Implement secure secrets management using HashiCorp Vault applying least-privilege principles and integrating secure credentials into CI/CD and AAP workflows.
• Design and maintain REST API integrations and enterprise service interfaces.
• Support configuration drift detection automated remediation compliance governance and secure engineering standards.
• Document reusable automation patterns and operational procedures collaborate across mainframe and infrastructure teams and support risk audit and regulatory requirements.

Qualifications :

• At least 10 years of demonstrable DevOps engineering experience including solution design governance compliance and implementation of DevOps best practices.
• A minimum of 2 years of experience working within an IBM Z environment.
• Strong technical leadership experience including mentoring engineers providing technical guidance and promoting engineering excellence.
• Hands-on experience with GitHub Jenkins Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) Nexus Repository Python HashiCorp Vault and API integration.
• Strong Python development skills including production-quality code testing logging error handling and modular design.
• Experience with Jenkins pipeline development using Groovy Git-based CI/CD practices and YAML automation.
• Practical knowledge of PostgreSQL schema design query optimisation and operational data management.
• Experience developing Grafana dashboards and supporting monitoring metrics and observability initiatives.
• Knowledge of secure secrets management credential lifecycle management compliance verification and configuration drift management.
• Familiarity with IBM Z and z/OS concepts including JCL and batch scheduling.
• Ability to design resilient restartable automation workflows and operate effectively in complex enterprise environments.
• Strong documentation collaboration and problem-solving skills with the ability to engage technical infrastructure risk and audit stakeholders.
• Experience in regulated financial services environments is preferred.
• Familiarity with IBM z/OSMF and zOAU is highly advantageous; experience with IWS Infrastructure-as-Code governance and observability tooling is desirable.

Additional Information :

Candidates must be legally authorized to live and work in the country where the position is based without requiring employer sponsorship.

HelloKindred is committed to fair transparent and inclusive hiring practices. We assess candidates based on skills experience and role-related requirements.

We appreciate your interest in this opportunity. While we review every application carefully only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

HelloKindred is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applicants of all backgrounds and do not discriminate on the basis of race colour religion sex gender identity or expression sexual orientation age national origin disability veteran status or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.

Remote Work :

Yes

Employment Type :

Contract