Senior DevOps/Automation Engineer - IBM Z & hybrid platform

Req ID: 394009

Competitive salary | UK: hybrid: London OR Sheffield + remote

At NTT DATA, we know that with the right people on board, anything is possible. The quality, integrity, and commitment of our employees are key factors in our company’s growth, market presence and our ability to help our clients stay a step ahead of the competition. By hiring the best people and helping them grow both professionally and personally, we ensure a bright future for NTT DATA and for the people who work here.

NTT DATA is currently looking for a Senior DevOps/Automation Engineer - IBM Z & hybrid platform on a hybrid work model (London OR Sheffield + remote) for our growing team in the UK.

Role Purpose

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

1. 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.

2. 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).

3. Observability & Monitoring

• Design dashboards and telemetry pipelines using Grafana.
• Integrate logging/metrics with enterprise observability platforms (e.g. Splunk).
• Build automated compliance and drift dashboards.
• Create structured reporting for audit and operational governance.

4. Data & Persistence

• Design schemas and automation state handling in PostgreSQL.
• Implement run state tracking, job history retention, and audit evidence capture.
• Optimise queries and data handling for operational reliability.

5. Security & Secrets Management

• Implement secure secret handling using HashiCorp Vault.

• Integrate Vault with CI/CD and AAP workflows.
• Apply least privilege principles and secure credential lifecycle management.
• Contribute to enterprise standards for secrets, tokens and service accounts.

6. Governance, Standards & Compliance

• Embed compliance verification into pipelines (automated controls, evidence capture).

• Contribute to standards for GitHub, Jenkins, AAP and workflow governance.
• Support configuration drift detection and remediation automation.
• Ensure documentation suitable for internal risk, audit and regulatory stakeholders.

Required Technical Skills

Must haves

• DevOps Experience: minimum 10+ years of demonstrable experience including solution design, governance, compliance and the implementation of DevOps best practice
• IBM Z Platform: At least 2 years’ experience of working within an IBM Z environment. Experience with zOSMF and zOAU would be a distinct advantage.
• Experience with enterprise scale Ansible via AAP.
• Strong Python development knowledge (production quality code, modular design, error handling, logging, testing).
• PostgreSQL (schema design, performance tuning, operational usage).
• YAML (clean, structured automation definitions).
• Git and Git based CI/CD practices.
• Jenkins pipeline development (Groovy).
• Grafana dashboard development and metrics interpretation.
• Nexus or equivalent artefact repository management.
• HashiCorp Vault integration and secrets automation
• Technical leadership: Proven ability to mentor other engineers, provide technical guidance and embed engineering best practices across the team
• Technical expertise: Strong hands on experience with Github, Jenkins, Ansible Automation Platform, Nexus, Python, Hashicorp Vault and API integration

Desirable

• z/OS workflow tooling such as IBM z/OSMF and/or Zowe CLI.
• Experience with enterprise schedulers (e.g., IWS patterns).
• Configuration drift management frameworks.
• API integration design.
• Infrastructure-as-Code governance models.
• Observability exporters and metrics pipelines.
• Experience in regulated financial environments.

Engineering expectations

• The successful candidate will:
• Design automation as resilient systems, not scripts.
• Build restartable and observable workflows.
• Engineer for failure scenarios (network issues, partial job completion, region specific failure cases).
• Balance simplicity with production robustness.
• Document patterns reusable across global regions.
• Think in terms of architecture, not just tooling.

Behavioural and leadership attributes

• Structured, systems level thinker.
• Comfortable operating in a complex enterprise estate.
• Able to collaborate across distributed, mainframe and infrastructure teams.
• Pragmatic but disciplined in standards enforcement.
• Comfortable engaging with risk, audit and governance functions.
• Drives automation by design rather than manual workarounds.

Benefits

Our people are the most critical component of our long-term success and their health and wellbeing are our priority. You will enjoy a comprehensive, locally competitive benefits package.

About NTT DATA

NTT DATA is a $30 billion business and technology services leader, serving 75% of the Fortune Global 100. We are committed to accelerating client success and positively impacting society through responsible innovation. We are one of the world's leading AI and digital infrastructure providers, with unmatched capabilities in enterprise-scale AI, cloud, security, connectivity, data centers and application services. our consulting and Industry solutions help organizations and society move confidently and sustainably into the digital future. As a Global Top Employer, we have experts in more than 50 countries. We also offer clients access to a robust ecosystem of innovation centers as well as established and start-up partners. NTT DATA is a part of NTT Group, which invests over $3 billion each year in R&D.

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