Skills
Harness administration
Harness CI/CD
Pipeline as Code
Harness template management
Ansible automation
Ansible Playbooks
Ansible Roles
Ansible Collections
Platform engineering
Cloud platforms
Infrastructure automation
DevOps practices
Infrastructure management
Platform reliability
Infrastructure security
Harness
Ansible
CI/CD
Summary
✨ AI‑Generated
A 12-month hybrid contract opportunity is available for a highly skilled DevOps Platform Engineer to design, build, automate, and manage scalable, secure, and reliable infrastructure platforms. The role centers on enterprise CI/CD administration, pipeline-as-code and template management, robust Ansible automation, cloud platforms, infrastructure engineering, platform reliability, security, and improving developer experience. The successful candidate will bring strong hands-on expertise in enterprise automation and platform delivery.
Highlights
12-month contract opportunity focused on platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, automation, reliability, security, and developer experience. The role offers the chance to design and manage scalable infrastructure capabilities and work extensively with modern CI/CD and enterprise automation technologies.
Description
Role/Job title
DevOps Platform engineer
Work Location
Leeds/Halifax/Manchester
Role type
Contract InsideIR35
Mode of working
Hybrid 2 days/week
Duration of assignment
12 Months
The Role
Engineering delivery of centralized capability within Ansible & Harness products
Highly skilled Platform Engineer to design, build, automate, and manage scalable, secure, and reliable infrastructure platforms that enable development teams to deliver applications efficiently.
The role focuses on cloud platforms, infrastructure automation, DevOps practices, platform reliability, security, and developer experience.
Your Profile
Essential skills/knowledge/experience:
**Advanced Harness Administration: ** Deep practical experience designing, implementing, and maintaining Harness (CD & CI) at scale.
Must include experience with pipeline-as-code & template management.
**Enterprise Ansible Automation: ** Proven expertise writing robust, reusable Ansible Playbooks, Roles, and Collections.
Strong experience managing enterprise configurations via Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) and Ansible Core, including inventory management, execution environments, and RBAC of centralized instances.
**Shared Services Management: ** Demonstrated track record of delivering, scaling, and maintaining CI/CD and automation tools including Harness / Ansible as a centralized service for wide consumption across multiple engineering teams (1000+ developers).
* **"Platform-as-a-Product" Mindset: ** Experience treating internal tooling as a product, including gathering developer requirements & creating clear documentation.
**Containerization & Orchestration: ** Solid understanding of **Docker** and **Kubernetes** for deploying, scaling, and managing Ansible execution environments.
**Security & Compliance: ** Experience integrating security guardrails into central pipelines (e.g., secrets management via HashiCorp Vault, role-based access control, and automated compliance scanning).
**API & Integration Skills: ** Experience extending the capabilities of Harness and Ansible by integrating them via APIs with other enterprise tools (e.g., Jira, ServiceNow, GitHub/GitLab, Monitoring tools).
